Another Valentine’s Day passed uneventfully yesterday. I guess it would be different if I had ever actually had a Valentine on February 14th itself, but that’s never happened. V-day is funny. I don’t really understand it. Why do people get all worked up about it? I mean worked up in either sense. Why do those with dates get all schmoopy, and why do those without dates want to act bitter? I would much rather be happy in loving people every day of the year.
Wow, that sounded really idealistic. That’s not how it was supposed to sound. I guess I’m just a person who is rather indifferent to Valentine’s Day. Someone wished me a happy V-day at dinner, and I hadn’t even remembered that it was V-day. Ah well.
In either case, now V-day is over, and it’s Friday, whew! I made it through this hell week surprisingly well. I did extremely poorly on my propulsion midterm (we haven’t gotten it back yet, but I KNOW I did horribly because he briefly discussed it in class on Thursday)…but I did well on my E206 midterm, PHATman worked wonderfully during our presentation, our aircraft design is suitably underway for Tuesday, and I did well on the aerodynamics midterm I had this morning. So one bad midterm, but everything else went well. I’ve been running 4 out of 5 days this week, which is awesome as well. And tonight is another Jammix, so I will get to dance my stress away. And it is a three day weekend!
The week’s only truly bad news is that Nick’s roommate, Tunji, who had been feeling ill, finally went to the medical center and today we found out that he has tuberculosis. I really don’t know anything about TB except for that I have had to get skin tests for it before, so I will have to do some research. He will be moving out of Nick’s room and living somewhere else. I guess the disease is contagious, but not rabidly so? Nick said he probably doesn’t have it, but will have to get tested just to make sure. Anyway, we are heading over to the medical center to visit Tunji, so I will find out more.
