Seymour’s my friend
\begin{LittleShopOfHorrors}
Someone show me a way to get outa here,
‘Cause I constantly pray I’ll get outa here
Please, won’t somebody say I’ll get outa here
Someone gimme my shot or I’ll rot here.
…
I’ll do I dunno what to get outa [Mudd]
But a hell of a lot to get outa [Mudd]
People tell me there’s not a way outa [Mudd]
But believe me I gotta get outa [Mudd now!]
\end{LittleShopOfHorrors}
I’m pulling my third all-nighter of the week (well, not quite – I’ve gotten at least an hour of sleep every day), and I don’t expect to have less work until Wednesday afternoon, when I will only have a 15-minute presentation and a 20-page paper left to do. I am so ready to graduate right now!
However, the Big Algorithms presentation on Tuesday went just about perfectly (Reid and I discussed pattern matching, and in particular the Knuth-Morris-Pratt and Boyer-Moore algorithms): people seemed to understand everything we covered, we answered questions well, and they asked leading questions (this was awesome – on 3 separate occasions, we answered questions with “actually, that’s covered on the next slide…”). Our timing was perfect down to about 2 minutes of the 75-minute lecture, which blew me away because we’d never actually practiced the entire thing before. Moreover, Reid (who has a speech impediment where he stops talking when he gets flustered) went through his half perfectly, without any long pauses. On the feedback forms, one person even wrote that this was the best student lecture of the entire class. \/\/00T!
Right. Back to work…
AHA! Its contagious!
First of, congrats! Doesnt that feel great! TO just nail something like that! Yay!
Second, you are quoting musicals! MWHAHA! Pretty fun musicals at that! Got that soundtrack, or most of it, on my computer. Did you see the movie recently? Yay for theatre invading people’s lives!
Re: AHA! Its contagious!
I do seem to be quoting musicals a lot lately! The running example I used in the Algorithms lecture was looking for the pattern “mamamia” in the string “mymamamademeseemamamia.” I even had a sketch of the cover art, which I did in glorious, Commander-Keen-esque 4-bit color (though it photocopied in black and white). The sad thing was that I think the only people who actually got the reference were Reid, myself, and the prof. Oh, well!
I really liked LSoH; I saw it for the first time only a few weeks ago.
Incidentally, I hate Little Shop of Horrors. But that’s just ’cause my little brother used to sing songs from it constantly. Like, literally constantly.