The Diary of Antoine Roquentin

I absolutely hated my geology class today. Algebra was kind of cool, and we are doing a lot of review on factoring, which is definitely needed. If we pushed ahead to Chapter 6 right now I think that my brain would explode. It’s not that the problems are more difficult, it’s just that in Chapter 6 questions you are factoring six or seven different expressions and then doing a bunch of other operations with the factored expressions.

So yeah. Today it was a big test in geology and I had no idea that it was happening. I spent the whole time before class talking with Brian on the phone when I should’ve been studying. In the lab portion we had our group test, which was a disaster. There were two idiots and one girl who knew her stuff. She wouldn’t talk though… she would shoot me down completely and everyone would laugh and it turned out the things she most berated me on I was right about. I don’t know. I guess she just pissed me off because she’s just one of those fat lesbians that dresses like a skater boy, and I just don’t feel I can talk to her without mentioning that I find her sickeningly unattractive. “All the Etnies and skater shorts in the world won’t cover up THAT FACE!”

On the bright side, though, I am finally grasping the whole factoring thing. The only reason I was having problems with it was because I missed the first lecture about it, but today’s review filled me in all the spots I didn’t pick up from the book (which says NOTHING about how to do the problems. It should just have the homework sections and nothing else. I swear to God, for the first section of factoring on the example problems it said to write out the problem, “a factor at the expression” and then you’re done.

NOWHERE IN THE TEXT DID IT SAY HOW TO DO THAT. I am going to kill whatever idiots that made that book. Without the amazing lectures by my professor, I would have no idea what’s going on. I really love the way she teaches. In whatever she does, she uses arithmetic to show us how to do algebra problems. I never understood that algebra is just abstracted arithmetic. I mean, I had that idea, but she has shown us in pretty much every type of problem that we are simply doing a certain type of arithmetic, but abstracted, so that I can build on the “arithmetic” schema instead of trying to attach the knowledge to my “weird nonsensical rules on how to manipulate symbols” schema.

But OMG!!!! The web site that I designed for my company the woman I’m working under (I would say with, but I’m doing all the work, she’s telling me what she wants although she has no real power…god my company is weird) loved it. Well, I guess that’s a bit of an overstatement but she said that I was on the right track and that she liked it. I’m hesitant to include a link because of the all-seeing Google tracking inbound links. Actually, it’s not officially on their server, it’s just a demo site and it’s on my server, so I’m the only one that could see the logs. So yeah, the demo is here.

I made this delicious rice and broccoli thing, I’m still in the kitchen like two hours after I ate basking in the cooking. And desperately not wanting to clean up.

I did I tell you about me and Terry’s supercute second monthiversary? I’m poor, so I left a few little things that I knew he wanted in his mailbox and of work we went out to Del Taco for 30 cent taco Tuesday (after snuggling and being all cute and couple-ish). Taco Tuesday is a bit of a disgusting habit, but I guess I could have worse vices (like everyone else in this family). Right next to my laptop on the kitchen table is a pile of books about alcoholism. I think they’re my grandma’s…and I wonder if she’s getting rid of them because John is dead.

So I finally got my scooter serviced, it runs SO much better now. They also said I had a clogged air filter, so I have to go back and have them replace it next week.

Let’s see… what else? I’m really obsessed with that web site. I came across this wonderful little JavaScript snippet that allows the visitors to change the text size. And since we mostly cater to elderly people, all be a welcome improvement. I’m just not quite sure where to put it in the design where it will be both easy to access and unobtrusive. Hmm.

Well, I think I’m going to retire to my room and work on it for a while. I just want to say, I hate those nights where I sign on expecting to talk to people and no one that I want to talk to is online. It’s just depressing.

Christen and I had a lot of fun a few days ago listening to LoveLine on KROQ and IMing…we need to get together soon. It’s so sad when I think of her all alone in heaven.