i swear the world is just out to scare me or something.

last night / this morning, at about 2:00am, i suddenly remembered that i hadn't done my 22.55 homework due today. this was a big problem. i immediately stopped trying to install netBSD onto my macSE/30 (well, actually, i put another 45 minutes into that. i'm an idiot sometimes.) and made the decision to sleep now and wake up early rather than stay up late working on the homework and then sleep.

so this morning, i got up at the cruel hour of 9:00am, and immediately started working on the problem set. ok, actually, i ate breakfast and watched springer first. i'm an idiot sometimes.

anyway, i did a rough job on the homework but at least respectable enough to turn in, so i rush off to class (after watching half-baked and taping it for jen. it was the one where he makes the french toast and accidentally puts in green food coloring instead of vanilla).

of course, first thing out of the prof's mouth is that he's postponed the due date to friday. so i didn't sleep and missed lunch for nothing.

went to tim goorley's RST seminar today. ("there are some who call me... 'tim.'" greetings, tim the enchanter. what does everyone else call you?) tried to figure out why tim is in the society for creative anachronism. he has swords and battleaxes and armor and stuff in his apartment. it's odd because he totally doesn't seem the medieval type.

matt told us a fun story from when he flew apache helicopters in bosnia. he used to be given assignments like, "go to this location at this time and pick up three men." and they wouldn't tell him anything else. he'd be escorted by two additional apaches, he'd arrive in the middle of nowhere, and out of nowhere these three guys would just appear and get in the helipcopter. they wouldn't say a word to him, and he just flew them back to base. so there was a lot of firepower to pick up these weird guys in what seemed a very clandestine way. matt thinks they were hunting war criminals, despite what the military told everyone else.

i got lured into using ebay.com today. i'd heard about it, and i needed an additional SCSI harddrive for my mac so that i could get the netBSD to work, so i went online and checked out their prices. i didn't find any harddrives i wanted, but i ended up bidding on six different offers in the coins section. ugh.