[Matthew] I'm excited. On Friday we get to do Stoke's Theorem!
[Guy] Are you stoked?

Softball Dreams
Early this morning, I slipped into a dream about our softball game last night. For some strange strange reason, Colin Hanks was there and on our team.

So I guess Colin was on third and Kiel was up to bat. Kiel hit a ball way way out there and started to round the bases. Except from where I was on the side, it looked like he cut first, hit second and cut third. But it didn't matter because when Colin came home, he touched home plate getting the third out.

That's about all I remember before I woke up about 30 seconds before my first alarm went off.

When I left for the Sports Complex today at 4:20, I thought for sure that we would be short players and that we would be playing an unofficial game. Boy, was I wrong. Not only did we have enought people to play, we had fourteen people there (9 guys, 5 girls). That was so cool. Playing a real game is so much more fun.

Hopefully we'll have everyone back again next week when we play the Yellow Darts (the only team to not lose a game yet (keeping in mind that I don't know about tonight's game)).

I got a couple people out tonight and got as far as second base thanks to two walks. I played pretty mcuh just second base. And I got to play the whole time since all 5 girls had to be on the field in order to have a full field.

Holy Cow!


Talk about under predicting! The newspaper said the record high for SLO was 99 in 1965. However, weather.com shows a record high for October to be 109 in 1980 and an overall high as 112 in September of 1971. Makes me wonder who's right and who's wrong. But still...97 at the end of October? (and for that matter, a report of 109 in October? *shakes head* Wow.)

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
The Good:
1. I got my Vector Analysis test back today. 47 out of 50 baby! The three points off was from the I-obviously-don't-learn-from-my-mistakes-very-well-because-this-is-the-same-question-as-our-first-quiz question.
2. Saw Truc tonight and caught up with her a bit while she gave me a ride home. It was good to see her again.
3. Got my flu shot
4. Placed the food order for the Math Club student/faculty social
5. I had written to the Mustang Daily thanking them for putting a crossword in there now. I didn't expect it to get run because it wasn't controversial or dissing someone or in response to the sex columnist. I just wrote it to say that I wanted them to keep the crossword. So imagine my surprise when I glanced through a Mustang Daily while waiting for Hartig to show up late and saw my letter in there.
6. Didn't get Linear Algebra test back.

The Bad:
1. I was so groggy today, it was not fun.
2. Linear Algebra homework is frustrating (nothing new there though I suppose). At least April got the same answer as me so maybe the book has a typo.
3. We didn't get our Linear Algebra test back.

The Ugly:
1. My Combinatorics test. That was awful. I confused so many things with each other. Only 8 problems on the test. One was to compute P^* and P₂. I switched the formulas for the two. I should have gone with my instincts on P^* and finished it the way he showed us in class but the formula was sticking out in my mind. Just that it was the wrong formula. Another question I thought the T numbers were for identical balls so I was like "I can't use it" and was trying to reason my way through getting a different answer. Afterwards I looked it up and found that T numbers are for distinct objects. Which is just great since I used a T number for an identical ball problem. So, if you're keeping track, that's 3 out of 8 questions that I *know* I fucked up. And that was with the extra time. And next time I'm taking it over at the DRC, just a lot more convient than moving at the end of the period to the professor's office because going over there ended up making 15 minutes later for work than I told Jim I would be late. Then again I wasn't expecting to take that much time. *sigh*
Side note: Meghan and I were discussing after test philosophies. I look up the answers right afterward and therefore I'll be very happy when I get partial credit on the ones I completely botched (aka pity points). Whereas she won't look them up until after the test. That amused her.

You know what I found out today? That I can aim when hitting a softball.

Today at softball practice, Randy was pitching and I was hitting a few and they were all heading over towards first/second base/right field. Then he asked if I could pull it a little. I was like, "What? Hit it the other way?" He said yeah. So I shifted a little bit and then BOOM! The ball went over towards third/left field. That made me very happy. Especially since if I can force myself to hit it a little bit more that way, it will give me more time to run to first. We'll see how well it goes tomorrow for our first game. Although, according to the scheduling website we're not playing against anyone. Hmmm....

Quote of the Day
So today at work I was browsing through the Math course offerings for next quarter. One of which was Intro into Analysis I. Under that was the workshop for the class displayed as "Anal I Workshop." I originally did not see this until Andrew pointed it out to me. Not exactly the conversation, but the gist of it:

[Andrew] That's just horrible.
[Me] What?
[Andrew] That last one.
[Me] *looks* Oh. Heehee, yeah.
[Bridget] What?
[Me] The analysis workshop has too long of a name so it was shortened to "Anal I Workshop"
[everyone giggles]
[Andrew] That class is probably a pain in the ass
[Me and Bridget] *laugh*

"You don't have to do anything" my ass! ;-)
So because my name was the first Randy could think of when choosing an Assistant Manager for the Math Department intramural softball team, the DisIntegrators, I got the job. I found this out yesterday. I was also told that I wouldn't have to do anything.

And then tonight:
Ahsgrad00 (10:18:30 PM): are you busy monday at 7?
JustNImg (10:18:52 PM): no, but I have a meeting at 8
Ahsgrad00 (10:19:35 PM): there is a mandatory managers meeting for softball at 7 and i can't make it
Ahsgrad00 (10:19:43 PM): would you mind going?
...
Ahsgrad00 (10:24:52 PM): would you be able to give people rides to practices?

So much for not having to do anything ;-). *Makes note to drive to school on Monday and to leave early because of that fact* Ah, the things I do for having fun. Even if we are going to have our asses kicked to Pluto by playing in Division I.

*idly wonders if she can put this on her resume now that she's actually doing stuff ;-)*

Petaluma
I spent the past 2 days with Meghan's family in Petaluma. I had a lot of fun while I was there.

First I took a bus up there and had a two hour lay over in San Fransico. I walked around the Financial District for a bit, taking a couple of pictures. Meghan picked me up from the bus stop in Petaluma and gave me a quick tour of the historical side of the town. Then we went to her ranch.

It was so beautiful up there. Wow. Just so open and pure, it was nice. She lives in this lovely, original 1930's house. Meghan got her brother Zack to remind her how to drive the four wheeler and then she took me on a tour of the actual ranch. There was just so much there! 75 acres is what she said and later when we were driving to a restuarant, her dad said they used to own a lot more, like 150 acres. Huge! Meghan also showed me some of her favorite spots on the ranch. For dinner, her family took me to Washu House (I probably butchered the name) to get a "local feel." It's the oldest roadside tavern or something to that effect in the state. It was a bar and a resturant. The bar was fun because back in the day people pinned money to the ceiling with a picture or business card in case they needed some more money for a drink. I had chicken a basket, pretty good chicken. Meghan, her mom and her dad all got rib eye steak while her brother got some shrimp thing. We watched some Buffy over the course of Wednesday and Thursday. We went to bed kinda early on Wednesday.

Thursday, Zack made pancake batter and Meghan made scrambled eggs. Then Meghan took me to Armstrong woods. Huge ass trees! I think the last time I saw trees that big was when I was in Yosemite in 8th grade. And they were pretty much all redwoods. Meghan was able to answer my few questions being a forestry major and having been trained to be a docent in the forest and all. We spend nearly an hour and a half walking around in there. I loved the serenity of it. Then we went to this town who's name I can't remember except that it started with an H and ended in a berg upon Meghan's mom's suggestion. We walked around there for about an hour but we weren't impressed. Lots of expensive art stuff. We watched some more Buffy and talked until her mom came home with some really good pizza. Then we read in her living room for a bit then her mom joined us and they watched Survior. I read through it thus keeping my "reality" tv virginity. After Meghan's mom went upstairs we watched some more Buffy but I beghan to drift off so went upstairs to go to sleep. I ended up staying up for another hour and a half reading. I finished my book.

Today Meghan packed up all her stuff in her car and her dad's truck. Then she took a couple of pictures of me with the pretty shell I bleached the day before with her ranch in the background. At first there were no sheep but then they were outside so Meghan took another picture and then the sheep went back inside. Then we came back to SLO. Meghan's a good driver, she was always staying within 5mph of the speed limit. Drove me, a speed demon, nuts though. But anyway, helped her unload and stuff and then actually cleaned up my own room. By rearranged some things I actually picked up about half a drawer's worth of space and some extra space in my small drawers on my desk.

I was just starting to fall asleep when I was awoken by some banging and I thought it was someone at my door so I woke up with a start. It took me a few moments to realize that it was my new neighbor Kelly putting in some nails. It gave me such a fright.