Fun quotes from LJ entries past

From april/may 2003:

"so many people do not understand how I can take the subway in the middle of the night with no fear whatsoever and yet am vastly afraid of forests. And who can blame me? The chansaw wielding freaks never smite their victims charging down Fifth Avenue."

"I wonder, after you're all done and and your life scores are being totted up by the powers that be, if you get to redeem days in which nothing memorable or remotely interesting happens. Maybe it works like a bottle deposit, maybe you don't get the full value of the day back, but maybe the value of a month's worth of bleh days would add up to one full regained day?"

"it's very hard to be depressed when you have to fight off eleven fuzzy pounds of hyperactive boy cat who insists that your toes are a yummy nutrutional snack."

"It's a little bit comforting to know that corpses get eaten by fly larvae and bacteria and not mold, but not comforting enough to sway my conviction that yep, cremation is the way to go. Somehow the idea of snotting maggots just isn't very appealing."

"And now, there is dinner, as the transsexual transylvanian monkeyfucks have stopped smacking each other long enough to finish cooking."

heh, that was silly

Hem. I thought I had time to take a short nap before class today... technically I did - I crawled back into bed at 9, fully intending to wake up and be out of the house by 10. *snrrk* yeah right. Woke up at 10:15, panicked (it takes 20 min to walk to center campus usually). Luckily, my downstairs neighbor was leaving the house at the same time and offered me a ride. Also said she'd be willing to teach me to drive stick once I nail down how to drive normally. I should work on that actually - I'm just afraid to ask in winter because I'm squicky about asking people to trust me with their vehicles on snow and ice. Of course, this is new england. I'm going to have to learn to drive on this crap at some point. It can't that much worse than biking in this crap... can it? (don't answer that.)

Computer Vision looks like it's going to be fascinating. The professor looks and reminds me of a taller, more outgoing version of birkwelch, which is seriously weird. Spent my lunch hour gleefully participating in the flame wa- er, discussion in beatgoddess's livejournal about macs vs pcs and ipods vs nomads. buying a book I need for homework tomorrow, grabbing a little lunch, filling beatgoddess' OneCard so she can print, figuring out why I suddenly lost my access to my campus email, blah de blah de blah.

I'm in charge of dinner tonight but I seriously have no ideas as to what to make. Soooo - I'm thinking chinesey goodness for all. Which is good because after my meeting with my advisor I can go home and go back to sleep. :) sleep is good.

hmm. Ought to get off the computer and pay some semblance of attention now. Heee, I love having classes in compy labs. :D

Schedule (revised)

Here's what it has more or less settled into:

Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays:

9-10 : ENG - Science Fiction? Speculative Fiction?
This class is gonna kick ass six ways from sunday. Sweet buttery Octavia Butler... *drool* Now, to not embarrass myself in class by turning into fifth crazy drooling fangirl from the left when she actually shows up.

11-12:15 : MTH - Linear Algebra
Weirdly enough, I think this is going to be my most challenging class. Ah well *girding of the loins* Bring it on.

Afternoons are currently free. I'm going to see if I can pick up some computer lab work here and there, as the schedule seems to be full. But they're doing final sign-up in a couple of weeks so we'll see.

Tuesdays and Thursdays :

10:30-12 : CSC - Computer Vision and Image Processing
To the photoshop geek, this looks like it will be really interesting.

1-3 : CSC - Introduction to Computational Linguistics
Ah, Merrie. Still crazy after all these years. And yay! I'm finally learning perl after saying I would for five years!

Will still haul meself to either the gym or to organ lessons in the mornings, I think. Not today though. god DAMN but my arms are sore from all that shovelling.

Other semestery goodness:

Random Day Off: Wednesday Feb 18. Long live Rally day.

Spring Break: March 13 - 21. Not sure what I'm doing here. *snort* maybe this will be the week I finally make it to Pittsburgh? Or take a road trip to NY with sundart? who knows?

March 21-29: Already I'm carefully scheduling things around this particular week, as I still fully intend to spend as much quality time with the bedroom ceiling as possible, damn it. :) No, I'm not entirely serious about that - I'm sure there will be some vertical activity during timarok's leave... maybe. *giggle*

May 1 - May 7: finals week! Looks like I will have 2 exams, a final project and a couple of papers to wibble about. But that's months down the line.

May 14 - May 16: Commencement-fu.

May 21-May 23 (thereabouts): Party is still on.

post May 23: Much too far in advance to worry about it.


Hmm, half an hour until my meeting with Merrie. I could finish my homework... but I don't really wanna... Will probably finish it tonight tho.

When you're a kid and you want to read WE but you don't have books yet...

You hold on to your little... OneState... and strife...

Sorry. My homework for tonight is to read Zamiyatin's We for science fiction tomorrow. I read it before when sundart was taking the class, but I don't remember jack shit about it other than the fact that everyone went by letters and numbers and that it reminded me of Ayn Rand's Anthem to the point of wondering whether Rand had been gleefully plagirizing. Still, should be a fun read.

Hmm, chinesey goodness. Munchy!

Fairly good evening so far. Talked to timarok for a bit, and I think I annoyed the hell out of him (he kinda deserved it) which I took an unholy amount of glee in. Still - I was glad to talk to him for the first time in jeezus, two weeks. (shut up, y'alls.) like yay.

I think there is grocery shopping in the offing tonight. And some We. And then... some sleeeeeeeeeeep...