game time

the qual begins in 13 hours

there's nothing i can study and retain that i don't already know... and there's a lot i don't know, but there's a heck of a lot more i know now than 6 months ago, than a month ago, heck even more than a week ago... we'll see how this works...

eric and me have been egging each other on and driving each other nuts... it seems to be a personal hobby of each of us to see how much we can "annoy" the other without really getting into trouble, but when we're both stressed and snappy, we both easily cross lines and piss each other off... e.g. earlier today we were getting along just fine, and then he told me that a complex analysis book i have and find quite useful was illegal study aid because he didn't have a copy and then ran off down the stairs with mine while i was trying to use it... when he came back, i grabbed it from him and wacked him in the head with it... yes, we're like 5 year olds, but we're both highly stressed, so it happens...

i've paged through old exams... i've called up friends who have passed the test already (scott and ben) and told them "name a theorem, any theorem" and had the quiz me on what i should know.

now it's up to whether the qual committee picked (1) problems having to do with theorems i know, (2) phrased the problems in ways that i see what theorems i need, and (3) i'm able to think in 3 hours tomorrow and 3 hours thursday of what each problem is getting at and write it well.

we'll see how this goes.

oh, and just so you know...

(1) if i pass "i knew you could do it!" is NOT an appropriate response and will probably make me mad at you... "congrats" or "yay lara" is appropriate

(2) if i fail "i'm so sorry" or whatever can be left alone... if this is the case, i'll probably hide even more undercover than i've been the past couple weeks and you all can handle it... you can trust ben and scott to make sure i don't disappear altogether :-P

the end.