School
Quite a bit of homework needs to be done,
and I've not much time to do it. In order of priority, I have half a
combinatorics homework assignment(well, a little more but I'll be
generous), a 3-5 page draft for Economics of Gender, and a
presentation for my programming languages senior seminar.
I've already figured out the topic for my presentation --
I'm going to talk about the new and interesting features found in GOO. Yeah, it sounds like a bad joke
to some extent, but it's actually quite interesting. The language is
the logical extension of Scheme into a purely object-oriented, typed
language. It should be interesting to see how the ideas for its design
fit together in my head with what I've learned thus far this
semester. Articulating those ideas should be even more
interesting
Hacking
Aside from setting up my first cron job
ever, dedicated to running rdate -s -p time-b.nist.gov, not much. It's
pretty cool to get an email once a night that says "Yup, everything is
ok." I guess I'll learn to like cron more in the future.
Work
Quickie Perl is fun -- I got to write a
script that moves inboxes to a new location on the system to alleviate
overcrowding in /var/mail, and tells users what it did. Hopefully
people will move their stuff elsewhere and won't get whacked by it,
but you never know.
Life
Wow, is life ever complicated. Yesterday it
seemed like everything I touched was turning into ash. Shot down for a
job, was a complete and utter bastard in front of the girl I like a
lot, got specifically targeted by a professor in class when I was
trying to lay low. Everything seemed to be crashing down on me. Then,
today was the day of Owen doing/saying stupid things. I managed to
work three into a conversation with Emilia in under a minute. I don't
think I've been on such a roll for a while, so it was nice, in a very
twisted sort of way.
The idiocy starts about 2:00 in the afternoon, when I stop
by her place, only to discover she's not home. Not daunted, I stop by
at 4:00, with approximately the same results. Then about 4:30 I leave
a voice mail message suggesting that she call me and we try to do
something. However, as fate would decree it I don't see her again till
dinner. College cafeterias are interesting places, and at a school as
small as Macalester you can't avoid running into people at times. So,
I see her at supper, but she's sitting with a guy that I really have
some serious issues with. He's not a bad person per se, we just have
personal difficulties. This makes it sorta hard for me to walk up and
ask if she wants to do something tonight. So, I don't, and instead
diddle around trying desperately to catch her when she's not around
him. This doesn't happen, sadly, and so I run home. There, the
mistakes begin(the real ones -- the ones made at supper were simple by
comparison).
To begin with, I pick up the phone and call without
checking for messages. I sorta have plans for the evening, but they
would very much be malleable depending on what she wants to do. In not
checking my voice mail messages, I miss the one she sent saying that
she hoped to see me at destination X this evening. So I call, and ask
her to destination Y, phrasing it such that it sounds like I'm
planning to do Y regardless of what she says(which wasn't true at the
time). This, by itself, isn't mistake number two. Mistake number two
is asking her which she thinks I should do. She suggests Y. Slightly
flustered, I only semi-jokingly ask if she "wants me to stop asking
her" This is mistake number three. Yeah, I'm dense. Luckily, she's an
absolute sweetie, and responds with something along the lines of "I
like spending time with you, but it looks like not tonight." I think I
managed to escape without making any more mistakes. Y was indeed fun,
but I'm sorta stuck wondering about how X went and whether she's still
busy writing her paper right now. Ah, well. I seem to have survived,
though I'm covered in egg. It should be interesting to see what kind
of hard time she gives me tomorrow.
Listening
Pete Namlook -
Molecular Progression
