Is this really necessary?

Happy belated birthday to Chris & Ayelet (me_apple)! (Never forget! *sniff*)

Also, belated birthday wishes go out to Graeme (graemlin) who is probably passed-out wearing his red vest in a frosh-week induced coma.

It's been a lazy Friday night here at Ravenswood #255. sarahrowe is playing Final Fantasy IX, and I just finished cooking and subsequently eating Eggplant Parmasean. It was moderately successful. Next time I need to make sure I fry the breaded eggplant slices more consistantly before the baking stage. Some pieces were yummier than others. Interestingly ( Read more... )

CS448 - Databases (CORE) - I've made some snobby comments about this course during the term, and it certainly wasn't always easy, but did we really need almost a month and a half to learn ERD diagrams and SQL? Professor Chan had a knack for going over things unbearably slowly in lecture and presenting simple concepts with unneeded complexity. Mind ( Read more... )

The exam period makes me sleepy. I feel completely apathetic these days... Sleeping a lot, surfing the web, and not studying nearly as much as I should. I wonder how much of this is Peter Gibbons syndrome and how much is general fatigue.

As I was scarfing down a pita before the now infamous CS448 debacle, an epiphany came to me over the Pita ( Read more... )

For 13 hours, fully clothed, in bed with a (non-cellular) phone, laptop, laptop-case, iPod, towel, and bath-robe.

I just picked up my last work report ever... never again ( Read more... )

I went to take a nap at 5:30pm or so, and woke up at 4am.

Bad News: Now I have an even 12 hours to do my Databases assignment.
Good News: I think it should take much less than that.
Bad News: I have some 464 work to finish too, so I can clear the way for Realtime.

The root canal is complete... I'm feeling great right now, as I'm novacained to the point that I talk like Jean Chretien. I'm sure I'll resume being sore for a few days after it wears off, but nothing like before.

Maybe I can get some work done now :-)

I was prescribed some Tylenol-3 (aka Codeine + Acetaminophen) to help me through the night. Hasn't worked out so well ( Read more... )