Back at Mudd

I'm back at Mudd now. Been back for a few hours. Done almost no homework. I wanted to get back early so I could do work. Except I don't want to do work. I am pleased to report that I am now fully caught up in E&M, including readings... something which I have worked on but haven't been fully caught up on in almost a month. But that wasn't very important work for me to be doing. I should have been working on clinic. Except, of course, I don't want to because I am too far behind in it.

Over break I got a little bit of work done. Namely: grading (3 assignments), started Archaeoastronomy final project (almost 2 pages), and helped Josh on his statement of purpose.

Managed to lock myself out of my room for the first time this semester. Felt pretty stupid about it.

I had to get up very early this morning (7am) and now I am very sleepy. Maybe I will do my clinic and go to bed. Or go to bed or something.

Still don't know what I am going to do about the Raytheon offer. Probably nothing. Josh is pretty hopeful about getting into Northwestern, and really, unless he didn't get in anywhere, I don't think I'd want to be working at Raytheon in LA. I don't particularly want to be in LA regardless. I'm still just afraid it could come back to bite me and we could end up with neither of us having anything to do next year to support ourselves... that would be bad.

I want to work on a crafty project. Don't particularly care what, and I've got a lot of projects I'd like to work on right now: quilt, scarf, camera case, wedding dress, invitations, LJ archive searchable database, etc.

I need to do laundry soon.

I want to go to stores to buy: more yarn, ink cartridge, half-and-half, sour cream, and a thermos of some sort.

Anyone still reading?

I suck at doing work in my room. Maybe I should go somewhere else.

I am so tired of this semester. I'm glad it is almost over. I'm looking forward to next semester being less intense and, in particular, not having any E&M in it. I'm also looking forward to Christmas.

Black and white photo scan

Holy cow! Did my scanner did a really bad job on that black and white photograph, or what? I increased the brightness and contrast so that the bad job is easier to see. I'm just glad I have the negative, though I'd really like to be able to scan this particular picture. Maybe I will remember to bring it home so I can try it on my parents' scanner.

http://www.pbase.com/image/23777315

I am on the brink of being very, very angry

The tale of why I haven't done any work on clinic yet:

So my new laptop came with a semi-illegal verson of Office 2002 beta. Apparently the license for Office 2002 beta just ran out because I got a message saying so and saying I it won't work any more. As promised, it doesn't. Now, I've been thinking about purchasing the legit version of Office 2002, but I haven't gotten around to it. Seeing as I use Word more than everything else on my computer put together, and Excel and PowerPoint almost as much (if that is possible), I dug up my Office 97 Professional CD, and my Office 2000 Small Business CD. I installed Access and PowerPoint from the 97 Professional CD--no problems. I tried to install Word and Excel from the 2000 Small Business CD and it decided to do the annoying thing: ask for my Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1 CD. The guy said he included the Windows XP CD. I got it out. It was still in shrink wrap. It says "Reinstallation CD, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition." Seeing as this is the only Windows CD I seem to have, I stuck it in the drive. My 'puter says it isn't the CD it wants. Now, I am pissed off. I would like to install Office. My computer isn't worth much to me without it. I do not want to reinstall my operating system. And here I thought I was at the end of problems with this computer... I guess I wont buy a used one again. It's possible that he did send me the CD and I just can't find it, but it seems vaguely unlikely.

Anyone have a "Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1" CD that I could borrow so I can install Office, and maybe burn a copy so this doesn't happen again.