So we’ve finally begun our retaliation. Bombing Afghanistan. The Taliban is saying that now America has become the terrorists. {sigh} The whole thing scares me.
I spent yesterday afternoon cleaning my room. Yes, all afternoon. Cleaning is a very slow process for me, mainly because as I clean, I rediscover things I’d forgotten I had and get distracted. But in the end, my room looks better than it did, so I guess I can declare the process at least halfway successful. I still haven’t figured out where to put all of my clothes, and so I have a pile of sweaters that has been moving back and forth between my bed and my desk chair…but I’ll figure something out.
Last night was nice though. Tico called about 4:30 and said he had no plans for the night, and when I said I didn’t have anything to do either, we decided to get a group together and go out to dinner. We parked underneath the Palo Alto City Hall and walked down University Avenue until we found a Thai restaurant that looked good. And it was. Yum. Afterwards, we found a gelato place, and then walked to the brand new Apple computer store that had just opened yesterday morning. They didn’t have any free t-shirts left, but we had a lot of fun playing with their computers and filming our own mini-movies in the store. God, we must be huge dorks, because it was really fun.
Today is an errand and homework day. Ick.
(12:28 a.m.)
I hate homework. It was so nice to work this summer and never have to spend my Sunday nights working on problems that I don’t understand, but that I should understand. I get frustrated so easily. Argh. In any case, I finished the math, did maybe half of the compressible flow (which was maddening…I can’t believe how much I’ve forgotten), and did a third of the structures. That leaves controls, and then “the big one” a.k.a. computational fluid dynamics. (cue scary music) It’s only been a week and a half, and already I’m lost in that class. It’s gonna be rough.
I was working on all this homework tonight with Nick. I realized he and I have never done homework together, so he didn’t know how annoyed I get when I don’t immediately understand a problem. I should have explained the method to my madness so that he wouldn’t worry.
In happier and less stressful news, I did two very fun things today. I got new shoes, and I got my car washed. Yay for simple pleasures. My car and my feet feel so much happier now.
I have to write two columns for the Daily this week…one to run this Thursday, and one to run next Thursday. They work a week ahead of schedule…imagine that! Definitely not how Technique editorials operated. Anyway, I am soliciting ideas…anyone got any?
