friday night

I ended up not actually doing homework on a Friday night (this is not to say I didn’t try). I got my first fine threat in my dorm (no fines yet, and I wasn’t actually making any noise).

I did get sidetracked from potential homework when Nathan came over (the one pictured below) and we showed him how we roll here in my dorm, as opposed to his decrepit, tiny, not air conditioned dorm on the far side of campus. Apparently on the plane ride over he told someone next to him what dorm he was living in, and they said, “Have fun with the roaches!” Great!

However, he did once again both help and distract me from my homework — this time with none other than the intro to Star Wars X-Wing on DOS. Great stuff. Though I haven’t played that one, the graphics there aren’t much worse than the first Rebel Assault game. So it was really 懐かしい and made me nostalgic for video/computer games that actually kept me entertained. Once the graphics and sound gets good, it loses a lot. Also, it’s a pity that none of the old mac games work once they made the switch to the intel processor, because I want to be able to do the equivalent with all my old games.

Somewhere in all of that I think we sort of finished the CS173 homework though actually, now that I think of it. I also think the ACM dudes are probably the people to ask about my ubuntu problems, but for the time being I need to get LaTeX up and running in order to type out the answers to my homework. I also have quite a lot of other homework to deal with this weekend, but if I get any free time I will spend it in the ACM office where all the magic happens, watch Nathan and David attempt to fix sucrose (the computer powered vending machine in the office), and try to get at least some work done.

Or else just practice playing Go, which I first played last night (Mpitt had explained the concept to me many times before, but I’d never actually tried playing until yesterday).

I actually missed a meeting tonight, but what happened was I went to JCT until 6:30, came back, went to dinner, and chilled with the HH 9th floor East (our imaginary floor of friends) in the lounge, which is when we almost got fined for noise (it was an enthralling game of pool I promise). I went up to my room and ACM people were talking to me on IRC asking where I was (I’m famous in the office now. Not only a clueless freshman girl, which is a pretty underrepresented demographic there, but I have spent the last few days pretty much camped out in the office). However I decided I didn’t really want to start going OUT when it was already dark.

So now it’s 1:30 and a pretty enjoyable evening of doing nothing later, I think I’ll work on writing things into my schedule and attempting this whole sleep thing. Cookies are happening tomorrow and I need my energy.