Today was the day of my second physics test. I was rather apprehensive about the whole thing considering how I was crushed by the first test. Things started to go wrong on Monday, when I accidentally dropped my backpack in such a way that it smashed the screen on my HP-48G. I didn’t love the HP-48G, but I liked it well enough. As a geek who went to high school in Texas, I learned to use an HP-32SII as part of the UIL Math/Science team, and suffered brain damage as a result. I can no longer use an algebraic (i.e.,…
This time, Noell got married. There aren’t many people for whom I’d hop an airplane and fly cross-country just because they sent me a wedding invitation, but Noell is one of them. Sydney feels similarly, so Sydney, Jonah and I split a hotel room and rental car. Sydney got in a little late, and Jonah and I got in a little early, which means we got there at about the same time. Sydney met us at the rental car counter, where she realized that she’d declined insurance and listed herself as the only driver of the car. She doesn’t have…
It doesn’t seem like often, especially lately. I have 4.5 hours between classes every day. Initially, I thought this was going to be a terrible schedule. In actuality, things have conspired to make it an excellent schedule. Because I ride Yoshiko (the little Honda) to school everyday, I’m somewhat disinclined to ride home between classes. Each ride involves a fairly lengthy procedure of getting geared up then getting undressed at the other end. It just seemed safer, and cheaper, and more green, and mostly just easier to stay at school between classes. So I spend the entire time in the…