oi

i feel incompetant today.

(1) i thought something was broken on a maple package that my advisor wrote, and pointed it out to him in our meeting yesterday (he had told me the week before to explicitly look for bugs... this morning i realized he had two functions with the same name -- one in capitals, and one not... and i came across the wrong one first and didn't think to check if there were two functions with the same name... oi... so i had to write an apology and reproduce the orginal package again... doht

(2) for my summer job i'm supposed to help sort applications this next week... i wrote asking when people would start working on it, etc. just to get more info, and the response was somewhat of "we don't need to 'meet' per se to do it, just pick things up"... i tend to overanalyze email tone though, so it should be just fine.... but oi again...

in summary, i like it better when i feel like my tone was taken as i meant it and i can actually accurately assess the tone of the people writing to me... and i like it better when i don't have to apologize and clean up after mistakes (i mean that's the optimal response to recognizing a mistake, but it's better to not make big mistakes to start :-P)

... was up doing homework until 2am, and woke up at 8... i'm beat.

on the other hand,...

the gospel choir last night was phenomenal... they did traditional gospel songs from around south africa, and then more modern gospel songs (btw, did you know that "in the jungle, the lion sleeps tonight" is originally a south african chant? they sang it in a few languages)... after intermission they had a whole dancing segment followed by south african "culture songs" like wedding songs, etc.... finally, after some more church songs, they sang their national anthem and the program was technically done...

however, when the one choir member was introducing the last few songs and said "our time with you is almost at an end", someone from the audience hollered "no!" and the choir member commented "well for you i bet we can do some encores"... they seriously did like a whole extra half hour of music, bowing and going off stage, just to come back and sing another song... the theater couldn't get enough of them!

we were in the 5th row from the stage in the orchestra section and had a great view, but were too crowded (our section was full) to really get up and move around, however some people in the balcony and further back were totally dancing along the whole time... gospel music party in the state theater :-)

to say the least, it was a highly quality evening.

now, to make it through pizza seminar, watch last night's TV, and maybe get a nap... people are going to see a campus production of "La Traviata" (an opera, i don't know much about it)... i'll probably go, but then i'll be more than happy to get home and crash and not think about campus or working for a bit... oi.

later dudes