circuit components in the wild, wild west

my alarm clock and i are having issues, and as a result, i have overslept and missed the past two propulsion classes. grr. i set the time, but i forget to flick the switch to "on." how idiotic is that? i guess it just goes to show what happens when i'm tired. i should get in a habit of setting my alarm clock in the morning, right after i've turned it off.

today was really nice, despite the late start. when i finally woke an hour later than planned, i headed over to the a/a library to work on my e206 homework...and i was so proud of myself for being able to finish the entire assignment, correctly, with no assistance from anyone else! maybe i can do this after all, eh? now i just have to build the circuit, but i don't have the right size resistors (unless i want to figure out how to make resistances like 15, 8, and 30 kilo-ohms from the handful of 10 k-ohm resistors that i have...which is possible in some configuration, i know, but i'm lazy) so tomorrow aaron and i are going to make yet another trip to fry's. i have this feeling my visits to fry's are going to occur on quite a regular basis this quarter. it's ok though. i love fry's. it's this huge warehouse that has every kind of electronics-related thing you could ever possibly need. engineering heaven. and it's decorated in a wild west theme, which is just plain funny.

at noon i headed to the dance studio to watch nick film his audition tape, and that went quite well. (yes, he has a webpage now, check out that link!) from there i headed back to the library to finish my homework, and then headed to class at 3:15, where we learned all about v-n diagrams. talk about shades of senior design coming back to haunt me...

after class i walked towards home with valerie and tyson, but instead of going all the way home i stopped at cromem to harass nick. but i'd forgotten that he has class, and emily wasn't around...so i decided to go find where tyson lived in the building. he wasn't doing anything, so we hung out for the hour i had until dinner. we walked over to moonbeam's and got coffee, then sat on the floor in his room doing the crossword. i had never hung out with tyson before, but i have recently discovered that he is quite a cool guy. he was going on a blind date tonight! i wouldn't mind going on a date with tyson. ;) he's cute, and funny, and easy to talk to.

anyway. just a thought.

dinner was good, and i spent some time at the coffee house (coho in stanford lingo) with valerie, then watched part of a movie with emily, then headed home and wrote my column for tomorrow. now it's time for me to do some reading for tomorrow's discussion class.

and that, dear people, is a lovely summary of my very nice day.