One down, two more to flay.

Tests that is. I've already flayed tons more than three people...I mean, uh, spoon. Anyway, I now have completed my physics final. It was both easy and hard, meaning confusing. Some parts were cake and others, not so much. One involving conserved momentum and kinetic energy was a real doozy. I must have easily spent a half hour on the sucker. Mostly because I didn't know that in this particular case we could assume the height of both pendulums was just the length, as previous problems we haven't. Needless to say, it ended up being two equations of three unknowns. Nasty looking things, and the first time I tried using the correct height, I somehow did it wrong and ended up with imaginary numbers. I came back after everything else and did it right though. At least, I think I did. One can never be too sure in physics. Total, I think it took like 90 minutes or so.

Afterwards I went down to the building breezeway/commons thing where the Chemical Society people (Of which Maria is one) had set up a table full of free goodies. Popcorn, cookies, vegies and dip, chips and salsa, and hot chocolate. I mostly just went to see Maria once more before break. It was nifty. I got to talk a bit to her, which was keen enough, and then later to the pretty girl from my physics class. I think she's a bio major, but I won't hold it against her. It's probably the most I've talked with her the whole semester, and she's quite interesting. I just wish I knew her name. Not much to do about it now though.

Anyway, that's one final down, and more like two and a half to go. I have the cs final thursday, after which we're all going to breakfast, and the discrete final is friday. As for the half, that's the take home final that I'm pretty sure I have to have in by tomorrow at some point, although I'm not really sure when by, or when Igor is going to be in to take it. Frankly, that's the part that worries me the most. Maybe I'll call in a bit and find out when he'll be in to take it.

I also have a program to do by about thursday-ish, but I have to test it out in linux, which I have partitioned on my compy, but I'm still really not sure how to use, and still haven't gotten it to recognize my wireless card. For the moment though, I really have to figure out the whole file system works, and remember how to compile with gcc from the command line.

Aside from that, I'm hoping at some point in the near future Heather will email me, although I'm not exactly sure how likely that is. I must at least tell Clayton to pass on a hi to her for me when next he sees her.

Conversational letdown

I increasingly find myself feeling annoyed with myself after leaving conversations, particularly with girls. Partly due to the fact that I always overthink things, but partly because I really could be a better person to talk to. Mainly, I find myself wishing I had been just a little bit nicer, said one or two more things, wished someone a good day, etc. Not that I'm not nice and attentive and all that, because I do believe I do well enough. It's just that, personally, I want to be better, kinder, more caring, and in a few words, a better loving christian. I want to be able to completely forget about myself and be able to think solely on the other; to care more about my neighbor that I'm talking with than myself. I just wish I could remember these things during conversation, instead of after.

"Bad Llama, bad."