and so it begins

so we've finally begun our retaliation. bombing afghanistan. the taliban is saying that now america has become the terrorists. {sigh} the whole thing scares me.

i spent yesterday afternoon cleaning my room. yes, all afternoon. cleaning is a very slow process for me, mainly because as i clean, i rediscover things i'd forgotten i had and get distracted. but in the end, my room looks better than it did, so i guess i can declare the process at least halfway successful. i still haven't figured out where to put all of my clothes, and so i have a pile of sweaters that has been moving back and forth between my bed and my desk chair...but i'll figure something out.

last night was nice though. tico called about 4:30 and said he had no plans for the night, and when i said i didn't have anything to do either, we decided to get a group together and go out to dinner. we parked underneath the palo alto city hall and walked down university avenue until we found a thai restaurant that looked good. and it was. yum. afterwards, we found a gelato place, and then walked to the brand new apple computer store that had just opened yesterday morning. they didn't have any free t-shirts left, but we had a lot of fun playing with their computers and filming our own mini-movies in the store. god, we must be huge dorks, because it was really fun.

today is an errand and homework day. ick.

(12:28 a.m.)

i hate homework. it was so nice to work this summer and never have to spend my sunday nights working on problems that i don't understand, but that i should understand. i get frustrated so easily. argh. in any case, i finished the math, did maybe half of the compressible flow (which was maddening...i can't believe how much i've forgotten), and did a third of the structures. that leaves controls, and then "the big one" a.k.a. computational fluid dynamics. (cue scary music) it's only been a week and a half, and already i'm lost in that class. it's gonna be rough.

i was working on all this homework tonight with nick. i realized he and i have never done homework together, so he didn't know how annoyed i get when i don't immediately understand a problem. i should have explained the method to my madness so that he wouldn't worry.

in happier and less stressful news, i did two very fun things today. i got new shoes, and i got my car washed. yay for simple pleasures. my car and my feet feel so much happier now.

i have to write two columns for the daily this week...one to run this thursday, and one to run next thursday. they work a week ahead of schedule...imagine that! definitely not how technique editorials operated. ;) anyway, i am soliciting ideas...anyone got any?