It seems there’s a new mass mailer worm making the rounds. The inbox on one of my e-mail accounts received an unusually large influx of messages this afternoon. This is actually the first time I’ve personally seen any significant traffic from one of these type of worms. I’m sure there are folks who will find it more bothersome.
A regular day of classes dragged on until after dark thanks to my continued travails in the ECE lab. I did make better progress than my last few sessions, thanks in part to an unusually helpful TA.
It proved to be a miserable day weather-wise, but it was a reasonably productive one. I finished up my second ECE 3090 program, a program to find mirrors in strings, and another ECE 3042 homework. I’m pleased with my progress at getting the homeworks done in a timely fashion. I had a terrible time with the homeworks when I took the preceding course, ECE 3041.
I read a couple more graphic novels: “Gunslinger Girl,” Vol. 1 and “Berserk,” Vol. 2. “Gunslinger Girl” reminds me of a British crime film. Seeing young girls wield deadly weaponry with cold precision is occasionally unsettingly, but observing the different types of relationships between the girls and their handlers, who act as both supervisors and partners, is interesting.
I seem to have fallen into the depressing habit of sleeping in late on the weekends. Titus and I started the afternoon with lunch at Pizza Hut, followed by a quick trip to the local Waldenbooks to pick up some new reading material. My goals for the day were to make progress with various assignments, specifically 3042 homework and the 3090 project.
My ECE 3090 professor kindly discussed the methodology behind our next program design during class today. I was having trouble visualizing how I was going to start and today’s lecture did the trick. My remaining lectures were productive, if unremarkable.
It was one of those rare moments of marathon viewing, but it was well worth the effort. We finished “Fruits Basket.” I can’t help but smile just a little whenever I think of this series. It’s really something fantastic and feelings of warm, fuzziness pervade. I was initially led to believe that it would be a romance anime, but I think it’s really more of a lesson about life and living.
There’s nothing like a little circuits lab to start the day off right. We are expected to write a comparative analysis report based on our findings from our next laboratory experiment, which is itself a two-week affair. I made modest progress during an unusually quiet lab period and left after my time had expired. Today also saw me take my first quiz in Japanese. Today’s quiz was strictly on hiragana and it turns out I was well prepared.
Titus and I continue to enjoy “Fruits Basket” in multi-episode chunks (Titus vows to cut back afterwards).
