The Maw

Finals week starts tomorrow, and this is how it is all going to go down for me.

• Monday: Likely take the instrumentation final. Timed: 3 hr.
• Tuesday: Scheduled electrical engineering final. Timed: 3 hr.
• Wednesday: Scheduled machine design final. Timed: 3 hr.
• Thursday: Only real chance to do the statistics final. No time limit.
• Friday: Scheduled proofs final. Timed: 3 hr.

If any of you were with me last April, you might understand that I am ecstatic that 80% of my finals have 3 hour time limits (and it is bad form to pluralize units if they are abbreviated. You don't write "12 ins, 15 mis, etc.") since my differential equations final took me 6 hours to complete. I took it on a Friday, and I spoke with a kid before I took it who said that he just walked out after four hours without finishing. It was mind bottling that somebody would deliberately not finish a final, but after I took it, I understood.

I get to takes some notes into two of my finals, so I am working on those. I've never been more appreciative of 4-6 pt fonts before in my life. Too bad we can't take in microfiche with us.

Liver destruction continues with Dr. Pepper this evening.

I really appreciate the option on the facebook homepage that lets you hide stories that you don't want to hear about. Anybody who takes tons of quizzes or posts crap that I don't like gets hidden, and I never have to see or hear from them again. It is probably better than the defacing the sprees that I went on during the baseball playoffs. Removed a lot of 'friends' those few weeks...

I'm currently on a "Killers" kick. Although, they have more than one album, they might as well not. It all goes downhill after the first one. There are still a few good ones, but very few.

I just noticed that the authors of my instrumentation book are Figliola and Beasley. It is funny because I am currently working on a side-project that we call "Beesley." Also working on another called "Elf" and another that I am just going to call "Saga." Code naming things makes even the most boring of things seem interesting. Oh the things we do to keep ourselves occupied. Discreet Fourier Transforms are so awesome, aren't they?

Saturday is the ward Christmas party. (Just had to do a little HTML edit to fix my font) This will be the first ward activity that I have ever gone to. It should prove to be quite entertaining. Bowling at the WILK and then ice skating. I asked Dave if we could try and Iron Lotus while there. He said no. Good choice.

Bombachus

• Looks more like a Rick Hamburger Bun

Well, enough time has been adequately wasted. Time to get back to work.