Yeah, I pretty much live here. This afternoon I stopped in, there were no empty tables on floor (which means I have to sit with a stranger or find somewhere else to study), but in fact Sergei was there so I sat at his table. Tonight I'm at a big table with two other macbook wielding strangers and Nathan. There is always a quest involved in getting a good seat in this library.
Thursday night, Noam came back into town. She came over to my dorm and she did math, while I did chemistry. Just like old times (except that we both would have been doing math). That was the kickoff to my fantastic weekend.
Friday night was Andrew Bird — he is absolutely amazing. He played a couple years ago when I was in high school — at this point a bunch of my friends went to see him and kept bragging that they could see Andrew Bird because *they* were 18 (the age required to get into the particular venue where he was playing). I didn’t know who he was at that point and immediately realized my mistake. Luckily this time I didn’t miss out. My guess is that this concert involved more musically interesting things because he had a very large concert stage to set up on. It looked a little like this. He’s strumming on his violin at this point:
His original training is in violin (Suzuki method!) and he makes good use of it — most of his songs began with him playing a line on the violin, recording himself in realtime, and layering himself over this recorded track. He did use the guitar a bit too (often standing with the guitar on his back and holding his violin in front of him). He also whistles and hums a lot.
Because he’s essentially a one-man-band, he sounded pretty different live than recorded. When he played Fiery Crash, I didn’t really recognize it until he said that line (though it sounded familiar somehow). A really 抜群 concert, I must say.
Unfortunately, around the time Andrew Bird was singing about a Fiery Crash, Nathan was actually having an epic bike crash with a sidewalk…
The rest of the weekend involved… going home and coming back and forth to campus the entire weekend for the purpose of studying and going out — finally saw Ariana’s apartment, etc. I stayed at home until Monday morning, and apparently people came hunting for me Sunday night, mysteriously right before the CS homework was due…
So I’m off to CS.
Today I had just taken my chem quiz and was sort of out of it, when I noticed that I had a missed call on my cell phone. The number wasn’t in my phone book, but I decided to call it back anyway. The quad was sort of loud and I couldn’t quite hear what this person was saying, except that it had something to do with CS class, answering a question, and Noam. After about three minutes of going “huh?” repeatedly, I finally learned that it was Boyce telling me that Ford said to tell me from Noam congratulations on answering a question in CS lecture today… Wow. At least I know his phone number now…
And I wasn’t even really sleep deprived while this happened.
Because I am working on re-reading this play for a project that is happening on friday, etc., and right now I am so involved in 花ざかりの君たちへ that if I had a moment I would use it to watch… but here is a picture to show you that I’m actually still alive. We can make this into a game: 
Who can tell me what this alien spacecraft actually is?
Tonight I went to my first [and last?] party. Luckily I invited my friend Nick (my mathbuddy) so that when we both wanted to leave after half an hour, I had someone to walk back with. I think we both feel like we’ve fulfilled party quota now. However, it wasn’t without its highlights. Best moment: girl is trying to get through the crowd, walks between me and Nick, points at both of us and says, “you’re both in my math class.” And we are.
This week is going by really too fast. I felt particularly rushed today, when I had activities from 10-3 (office hours I went to, then 4 classes), studying at Grainger for 2 hours, math study session, dinner, meeting, back to my dorm for hours of CS fun… while I walk I memorize chemical compounds.
I would have not survived today’s marathon of classes were it not for hanging out with Ford and Boyce a lot last night (facebook albums to prove it) and exploring the food options readily available near our dorm. Since, as previously mentioned, the cafeteria is really never open when I need it to be, and/or closed whenever there’s even something resembling a holiday… sometimes you need food. So we went to Late-Night across the street (since all campus residential halls has it) and basically you put money on your campus ID and then can buy food there, and it’s sort of like a grocery store. The number of people there was surprising — the nighttime activity, the food! So I bought a sandwich that I took with me today to eat between Theatre and Chem. That worked out well… yeah right.
I couldn’t even finish my sandwich on the way to chem (this must have meant I was walking fast, as I have several times eaten Jimmy Johns sandwiches before I make it from one side of the quad to the other) but luckily Ankit had saved me a seat as he promised, and I finished my sandwich with a minute or two to spare.
What I have been working on for the past few hours is CS. Nathan and I want to work on it tomorrow because that might mean we don’t have to spend all weekend doing it (or so we hope). I’ve gotten it mostly typed up, and mostly worked out (comparing answers still REALLY necessary) but I’m still pretty slow and clumsy with LaTeX. It’s coming along though.
I have also been using this parsetree package for LaTeX and since have made beautiful parse trees for my homework.
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