random thoughts

my roommates never study at home anymore... i have the place to myself most of the time when i'm home in daylight, and most of the evening... the only time i have company is when i invite people over or when i go to sleep pretty much... it's a little weird :-P... e.g. i've been home alone all day minus about an hour in pieces, and silence other than me... now it's 12:30 at night and leigh comes home singing and making all kinds of noise... sooo backwards

eric and me dissected my laptop tonight while i was working on other stuff,... it doesn't turn on anymore, so we thought it would be fun to take enough apart to try to flip the actual switch inside rather than what you hit on the outside... still no luck... it does absolutely nothing, except the "battery charging/charged" light lights up when you plug it in... that's all... any thoughts any brilliant cs/ece/whatever people?... it's currently disassembled and in plastic bags on my dining room table :-P... there are a freakin lot of screws inside a laptop if you were wondering :-P

eric and me and all the 1st year students have to take this crazy teaching preparation course this semester... tomorrow there's a chance of being put up at the board and teaching a room full of graduate students the equation of a line... for some inexplicable reason i'm totally freaking out... eric reasoned with me for an hour saying he feels bad that my head freaks out at things like this and he wishes he knew how to convinced my head it's not a huge freakin deal... he also rescinds all comments from last year of "i don't envy the students in your future classes"... i've downloaded them all as valid criticism whereas he meant it mostly jokingly every time and we had a long chat about the pros and cons of half a dozen people in our incoming year's personalities with regards to teaching... eric thinks, contrary to joking criticism last year, that i'll be a highly entertaining and popular TA... i gotta live through this class (which is not meant to be a big deal, i'm just neurotic :-P) first though

#1 nice thing about having an advisor who does experimental math? when you're ready to sleep you can just write up batch files and have the math server work away while you sleep :-P

chance of 4-8 inches of snow/sleet tonight... and i am the first one with class in the morning... hopefully not too traumatic to get out of my parking spot in the morning... or if it is, hopefully a rare university snow day so that i can get out of going to 4 classes and have more time to work on reading class stuff :-P

heh... that was all random indeed

night y'all