Bette Freakin’ Bao!
(apologies to Hansford for the title of this update)
Guess who is done with their homework this week? Yeah, that’s right. I am. Sunday afternoon, I napped for a couple hours. Sunday night, I didn’t sleep. Monday, I dozed for a few minutes in history. Monday night, I didn’t get to bed until 4:00, though I did skip soccer to get a little more sleep. and today, I finished my homework before 1:00! Since Saturday, I have done: my history research paper, my philosophy paper, my CS81 take-home midterm, another huge Abstract assignment, and accomplished a significant amount of the Systems lab. The weird thing is, though, that I’m not tired. I’ve gotten 10.5 hours of sleep since Sunday morning (it’s now late Tuesday night), and I feel great. Mind you, Monday morning at 5AM, with hundreds of words to go on a paper due later that day, I was not feeling so great. However, it’s all done, it’s all at least ok quality, and starting tomorrow afternoon, I have break.
Let’s see… what else has been going on… due to low turnout rates, Tom is seriously thinking that at the end of the semester, Unit551 will stop playing with our bridge club. However, on Monday, we got four and a half tables, so we’ll see what happens. The poor guy – he’s working so hard to keep this going, and the unit is shrinking so much that they might just have to shut down permanently.
At this point, I think all of the important news is mainstream enough that you should have heard about it: the US is launching a major attack on Falluja and various other parts of Iraq, Israel is easing security lockdowns so the Palestinians can hold elections to replace Arafat, who finally passed away in his coma. South Africa is still having problems with rape, AIDS, and racism, while the Darfur Conflict isn’t getting any better. A small group of Republicans struck down a bill that would have implemented almost every change that the 9/11 panel suggested, which is odd because the measure had sweeping bipartisan support, save for a few people. Both the Democrats and the Bush administration are working on getting these laws passed soon (wow – who would ever think we’d see the day when the Democrats and Bush had the same goals?). I’m not going to link to any of these stories; if you can’t find them, try google (and if you can’t find it, you probably can’t find my blog, so go ask whoever got you here for help).
Well, that’s about it for now. I shall update more after I get back from Livermore (I’m going there for break).