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Wow, that was such a Monday.
Feb. 8th, 2005 08:25 amDon't you hate it when you go to bed early intending to go to bed early but roll around awake for three hours?
This is why I was operating on four and a half hours of sleep yesterday. Let me tell you, it was NOT pretty. I have never been able to operate well on less than seven hours sleep to begin with - I only pulled ONE all-nighter my entire four years of college because I fell asleep at my desk the other two times I came close. Add a status meeting and a How-The-Heck-Are-We-Going-To-Implement-This? meeting for the section I'm in charge of the front-end work for and my brain cells were pretty much dead by the time I left at 2:30.
I did have time to raid the comic book shop on the way to class - the bonus of Cosmic Comix moving to Catonsville is that it's on the way to UMBC. So some comic book thoughts, for once...
( Cut for comic book rambling, spoilers for Green Arrow #46, Spider-Girl #83, and Amazing Spider-Man #516, and for people who could care less. )
...where was I?
Oh, yeah. Class.
So far, I'm liking Database Program Development a heck of a lot more than I did Data Communications and Networking. Dr. Zhou makes sense, her lectures are coherent, and it helps that we're kicking off with the Entity-Relationship Model - which breaks things down into visual representations that I can wrap my head around. I've already hooked up with a group, and the other two guys are pretty serious about this project, which means that a) I don't have to be in charge and b) I won't have to be calling group members while on vacation trying to get their section of the project.
It also helped that after 13 hours of stumbling around like a zombie, my brain finally turned on at 6:30 p.m - just when I figured that class was nearly over and I could start to wind down so I could crash early when I got home.
Finally, as I was packing up my things, I nearly tripped over something that had fallen on the floor of the classroom.
It was a cinnamon shaker.
Not a little packet of cinnamon, but an entire ground cinnamon shaker that you'd buy in the baking needs aisle of the grocery store. It was half-full, and someone had brought it into a computer science class and left it behind.
I have no idea what the point of bringing that in was, but I'm sure you all can speculate. ;)
This is why I was operating on four and a half hours of sleep yesterday. Let me tell you, it was NOT pretty. I have never been able to operate well on less than seven hours sleep to begin with - I only pulled ONE all-nighter my entire four years of college because I fell asleep at my desk the other two times I came close. Add a status meeting and a How-The-Heck-Are-We-Going-To-Implement-This? meeting for the section I'm in charge of the front-end work for and my brain cells were pretty much dead by the time I left at 2:30.
I did have time to raid the comic book shop on the way to class - the bonus of Cosmic Comix moving to Catonsville is that it's on the way to UMBC. So some comic book thoughts, for once...
( Cut for comic book rambling, spoilers for Green Arrow #46, Spider-Girl #83, and Amazing Spider-Man #516, and for people who could care less. )
...where was I?
Oh, yeah. Class.
So far, I'm liking Database Program Development a heck of a lot more than I did Data Communications and Networking. Dr. Zhou makes sense, her lectures are coherent, and it helps that we're kicking off with the Entity-Relationship Model - which breaks things down into visual representations that I can wrap my head around. I've already hooked up with a group, and the other two guys are pretty serious about this project, which means that a) I don't have to be in charge and b) I won't have to be calling group members while on vacation trying to get their section of the project.
It also helped that after 13 hours of stumbling around like a zombie, my brain finally turned on at 6:30 p.m - just when I figured that class was nearly over and I could start to wind down so I could crash early when I got home.
Finally, as I was packing up my things, I nearly tripped over something that had fallen on the floor of the classroom.
It was a cinnamon shaker.
Not a little packet of cinnamon, but an entire ground cinnamon shaker that you'd buy in the baking needs aisle of the grocery store. It was half-full, and someone had brought it into a computer science class and left it behind.
I have no idea what the point of bringing that in was, but I'm sure you all can speculate. ;)
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