eh

i'm more prepared for lie groups this week than any of my other classes... *that* is a scary statement.

as usual for monday/wednesdays, eric and me ran out of analysis early today to drive him to his class that starts 20 minutes after analysis gets out... we usually get to the other class late due to rush hour traffic, and today was no exception... first thing he says when he hops in my car?

eric: "dude, so i've realized today that every single one of my classes this semester suck for some reason or another... both analysis classes have amazing profs, but they're above my head so i'm screwed up, algebra and number theory are what i think i like, but both classes are extremely badly run.... i hate this!"
me: "dude, replace complex analysis with lie groups and replace number theory with graph theory and you have what i've been saying all semester... high five for angst... what are they trying to do to us?"
eric: "i dunno, but it's sure not encouraging"

amen to that.

later in the traffic jam drive,
me: (spazzing about my pizza seminar lecture): "so what happens if i only talk for 30 minutes?"
eric: "dude, that's probably bad"
me: "but yeah, what if... i'm just not feeling prepared about it"
eric: "what's the worst that can happen? we're all gonna fail the algebra midterm anyhow, so focus your attention on that... you'll be prepared, then the worst that's going to happen is your pieces of chocolate fall of the board, and then you say 'hey, eric, can you come help with this', and i'll grimace and say 'anything for you lara', and come be a visual aid... problem averted and we're all ok"

dude... so, lie groups talk prepared, i give it at 11:30 tomorrow... haven't started the algebra midterm takehome (group homework party in 15 minutes on campus) and haven't studied for the in class part... have 30 minutes of an hour long pizza seminar talk (to be given friday at 1:15) put together, and in the meantime, i gotta get some sleep or i'm just going to break down.... what a week.....

done spazzing... at least in blog form.... later =P