Relax Posted January 10, 2003 at 12:00 am

Getting up when darkness hangs over the land is a feeling akin to being dragged from the warmth and safety of the mother’s womb. It’s too early. It’s not your time. Regardless, you aren’t given a say in the matter, so you emerge into that cold, unwelcome new world and curse whatever reason you have for being up at that ungodly hour.

I ended up dropping HTS in favor of an ECE course focusing on embedded programming so I got up at 6:00 AM today to get ready for school. Michael and I carpooled since he’s also an early riser on the odd days of the week. Luckily, finding a parking space at 8:00 AM is trivial compared to mid-day. The embedded design teacher is promising if initial impressions will serve. He seems a bit animated and referred to himself in the third person at several points. He even let out a passionate “Damn!” at one point when he found a small error in one of his slides. After the last of my early classes I headed over to the embedded lab to catch up with the projects that had already been assigned this week. Michael gave me a quick tutorial of the software and I was underway. An hour later I had one project down and a teammate for the rest of the projects to come.

Titus prepared shrimp alfredo for dinner so it seemed as good a time as any for culinary bonding. I fixed up a dish called “Charlie’s Enchilada Casserole” that my mother found. It consists of chili, enchilada sauce, tomato sauce, crushed Doritos and cheese. It was quite different but quite good nonetheless. I think it was a hit with my roommates too.