About my Halloween costume
[Meghan] Well, how are you going to play it? Sexy? Psychotic?
[Me] I don't know. I guess I'll be going as myself.
*short pause*
[Me] So bitchy I guess.
[Meghan between fake coughs] Wasn't going to go there.

I am the computer guru who hates her feet
So after getting back my Combinatorics midterm back (67, eep!) I went shopping for a new pair of shoes as mine have seen much better days. (Plus the blood stain that is now on my left heel isn't that attractive). First I went to Payless but wasn't happy with their selection. Then I went to Copland's and spent the next 45 minutes deciding between 3 pairs of shoes. The first two were the same style just different sizes. What I hate about my feet is that not only are they wide, but also my left foot is about half a size bigger than my right foot. I knew one was bigger than the other but I measured them in the store. Then I tried on a third pair after getting clarification between a "walking" shoe and a "fitness" shoe from a salesperson. The third pair, a "fitness" shoe was the one I finally went with after walking around for a bit making sure that both of my feet were quite comfortable. I hat buying shoes because of trhe different sizes and the width. Especially any dress shoes. Just to get them to fit my width I have to go up a half size or a full size and then put pads in to make my feet snug in terms of length. *sigh* This is why I just wear my one pair of sneakers to death.

Anyway, tonight after Juile, Meghan and I had some laughs over putting up our new "doorbell" and naming it and Meghan's parrot, Meghan brought out her senior project to show us some funny things. One of the things was the work "currricular" on the top of every page in the header. She was surprised that someone made that mistake and that no one has bothered to correct it over the past 4 years. Although she noted that she and her partner couldn't fix it either. She said that they tried but it was all greyed out. I told her "well, yeah, until you hit View Header and Footer." She gave this sort of amazed look and then went to try it on the computer. She was very happy when it worked. While I was there, she had me try to fix another problem with a page printing lines that weren't suppose to be there. I didn't see anything in normal view but they were there in print preview. So I simply edited them away while I was in print preview and vwala (sp?), no more lines. This also made Meghan very happy. She said "Note to self: schedule senior project meetings on the weekends when Mandy is here." She also said that while she herself may not be brilliant, she's brilliant in how to use people yet can offer nothing in return except for an amusement factor. Which is true. Meghan can almost always make me smile or laugh (read: poking me with a fork after losing the race to the microwave last night).

Dreams
This time I dreamt that the mouse was back. All I remember is chasing it around but that's it.

[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*