Showing posts with label Tornado. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tornado. Show all posts

Thursday, February 7, 2008

Laser beams, Collard greens, and Jelly Beans

On or about 12:17 this afternoon, I realized that I have now missed half of my astronomy lectures so far this semester, which amounts to somewhere in the general vicinity of $472 down the University toilet. Ugh. It was because I stayed up late last night. It was generally a busy day, to say the least.

I had to rush from my Art class (which ends at 4) to the bus that drove everyone to the polls (which left campus at 4) in order to vote. *By the way, even though it was super-exciting to exercise my duty as a citizen, I could not prevent Hilary Clinton form winning the state of Tennessee* At five o'clock I had to attend a Mannafit, which was a benefit dinner for this Central American relief agency. This event lasted much longer than I was comfortable with. Also the tables were decorated with live goldfish, which made me quite angry, and I think I ate a little bit of meat, which made me almost throw up.

Back in my room, just when I decided to forgo watching the West coast returns in favor of my 80 pages of English reading, who should show up but the Tornadoes. Yes we had quite a storm last night if you missed it, and the RAs in my dorm had everyone sit in the first-floor hallway away from the windows until the storm warning expired. *My friends at Union University are safe but say the campus is a total mess* As I get back to room, I'm almost ready to start with the homework when Daniel suddenly decides to shave his head. I somehow got wrapped up in that for a bit (It's not everyday you get to see someone shave his own head).

The good news is I wrote my first program in Unix today! Granted I had a step-by-step tutorial to rely on, but it still made me happy.


Old pic is OOOOOOLD