sadie_cocopuff | moral of the story

always, always, ALWAYS read the problem carefully. otherwise you will spend an hour doing pointless computation trying to find the values of a, b, and c, when really you only needed the system of equations in a, b, and c, which you had within five minutes. the only possible silver lining is that i got a very thorough review of row-reduction of matrices. i am still so mad at myself. how long have i been doing math? i should know to read carefully by now. gah.

i have had the same headache since i woke up yesterday. on top of everything else that is wrong with my body, it just seems a bit unfair. dear santa, i'd like a new body for christmas.

i am ordering my new laptop this weekend! it should be at my house when i go home for thanksgiving so i can move all my stuff over and give my old one to my mom. i feel a bit of vindictive pleasure knowing that my little brother will be dying to open the box before i get home but will know that i will kill him if he does. serves him right, always messing around with other people's gadgets.

there are so many things looming on the horizon: french paper, calc exam, soc research paper, class registration...as if the normal obsessing about topology and piles of reading and unavailable calc professors weren't enough. also i am supposed to swim on the weekends, in addition to my normal twice a week. since when do p.e. classes give homework? can't wait for thanksgiving, except we're driving to granbury to stay in the house that never sleeps (seriously, three small children and they're never up before noon or in bed before midnight) with my slightly compulsive aunt and my grandmommy whose memory is starting to slip. i love them all, but it won't be a stress-free break. i know, i know, not the right mindset for thanksgiving. i will work my way around to being grateful, i promise.

but now i'm going to bed.