horrible evil tests

after studying for pretty much 24 hours straight, the analysis midterm is done. the prof stopped us after an hour and 40 minutes (it was supposed to be an hour and 20) and no one was done,... he told us to stop where we were and just turn it in. even the super good analysis people thought it was an unfair test and jared's writing to complain... pretty sure he (the prof) didn't mean it to be awful, just forgot what it's like to be a student instead of someone whose known these theorems and how to apply them for years and years... at any rate, our grades all go down together... just woulda been nice to know i coulda studied for an hour and gotten about the same score... oops.

a-swan and i went out to eat w/ scott, jared, and colleen... people dynamics-wise it wasn't the best since a-swan didn't have much to say without being asked directly and scott and jared just kinda chatted and assume people will jump in, and a-swan felt a little left out... makes perfect sense in context... i guess i'm just used to the dynamic of interacting with my math people and so i don't think anything of it... since i'm used to them i know nothing was meant by it from their point of view, but i understand why aswan felt the way she did in retrospect too... i couldn't quite pinpoint that that's what the problem was until aswan and i chatted after, but dinner was quality and i'm glad we all went... =)

after all of the above, a-swan and i got out my telescope and found jupiter and saturn and the orion nebula then watched "the italian job"... all lots of fun... just now i'm gonna crash. =P sooooo freakin tired.

night all.