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Happy Thanksgiving dear readers. This past weekend I got paid for the first time for my acting in a student film for a class. What was I paid? A tube of toothpaste and two sticks of jerky. I feel like a true actor now. Or college student. Either way.

We didn't win Bloodshots. We had fun doing it though and we were probably the youngest and most inexperienced team there. I'd say we placed in the top 5-10 though. My favorite was Backwoods Bob. We're going to try again next year, and if you want to be in it, tell me. We're going to split up into two groups if we have to.

Oh News! My laptop is dead, kuput, gone. My hard drive is scrap. I'm going to go and pray to the tech gods at ut monday and see if they can do anything. So if I'm not on msn for the next couple days, that's why.

Finally! ZELDA is up! The first part is here! Rachel, you're in it! Trevor, not yet! Critique, tell your friends, have fun! Go for it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go5IQC0MX5A

My lecture classroom is a sea of facial hair.

I'm supposed to be doing something today, but I can't for the life of me remember what it is. If you know, leave a comment. You can tell it's that time of the year again when everyone stops shaving and bathing. Finals. They're right around the corner and we all realize that our grades stink, so we're fighting to get them up. This spells late nights and lots of coffee. One thing I like about engineering is the lack of competitive streak. In high school we were all fighting each other for rank, but in college we're fighting the professor and TA for the grade. Everyone bands together more too. Like in math class. If you looked up non sequitur in the dictionary, this guy's photo would be next to it. Nothing in his teaching style makes any sense. He spent 40 minutes once teaching every mathematical concept with a monkey trying to feed her children bananas, and when he reached the point, he just trailed off in mid sentence, and we never found out how imaginary numbers are useful in any walk of life. Or even why they exist. The monkey just needed numbers, so she invented some imaginary ones. Lost? Confused? Bewildered? That's how we, the students in a upper division applied mathematics course, feel everyday. Even the TA has this sense to him that in the beginning he knew what was going on, but somewhere the prof just highjacked the course and went A-Wall.

Quote of the week:
"You know, I came back to college so I could 'learn how to build things', not get my ass handed to me by an Alpine Santa (our math prof). But you know what, that's what ended up happening. Stupid me. What was I thinking?"
-Gradate student.

Physics Homework Problem

A child (approximately 4 years old) takes
her metal "Slinky Toy"
and does various tests to determine
that the Slinky has an inductance 125 H
when it has been stretched to a length of 3 m.
The permeability of free space is 4pi
10x e-7, N=A2.
If a slinky has a radius of 4 cm, what is the
total number of turns in the Slinky?

Now that's a mest up kid.

How many extra syllables can we tack onto Alba's name?

Aaaaannnnd we're back. Or at least I am, I can't keep tabs on you all the time, you know? I've got my own life. My scandalous and provocative affair with Lauren on facebook anticlimactically ended last Tuesday. I am officially single. The pope can finally sleep easy at night knowing I'm not maybe participating in homosexual activities and still going to mass every Sunday. Why did she break up with me? Who knows. She says it was a boy but I think she was just tired of this farce we call a relationship and escaped with yet another lie. I blame Distance. Long Distance kills more relationships than anyone knows. What a jerk. I think he does it for fun too.

I'm about to give up on transitions with Zelda and just publish part one anyway.

Halloween! Biggest party day of the year here. Albalalala(-lalalalalalala okay I'll stop) and I decided to postpone our celebrating until after our tests this week. Which is too bad but I was able to get all of my homework done for the first time this semester. Engineering has one hell of a lot of work, for anyone that doesn't know. It's all about group work and BS. Mainly BS until the test. Yeah.......

anticlimatically is not a word, for all you that care.