Post be nimble, post be quick

I'm studying Chemistry for my exam Monday, there is a whole lot of new material that is to be covered and well, basically all the hardest stuff from the past exams so things will be hectic tomorrow and the rest of this evening (if I can keep my eyelids open).

This morning was very chilly, I had turned off the water to my camper and left the heat off, that bottle of propane has to last at least another week! There is a small wall heater that doesn't put out much but at least it takes the sharpness of the bite away, all that to say that it was 32F in the camper this morning, nothing was frozen though, least of all me! After taking my shower at the stalls here in the park, I came out still slightly damp from the steam and shut the door behind me. My finger froze to the handle. Not badly, just enough to make me think "neat!" and try it a few more times. Yup, handle was cold all right.

Driving was the worst part because you get into an icy cold car and the heater is blowing cold air for at least 5 minutes (below freezing air) and the steering wheel takes whatever warmth out of your hands that is left. I didn't have the sense to use my jacket sleeves as gloves, though I probably should have.

Calculus class was basically a review of things past and it was helpful but I could do everything we covered so I'm pretty confident about the test. Calculus is actually quite fun, more so than Chemistry. Ugh. Speaking of which, I had that class directly following and was handed back my paper from the last assignment and found out I had missed more than I should have. That'll teach me to never trust a TA, whom I worked every problem out with to "make sure" I understood it!

And Economic class would have been a review today so the teacher decided that she would extend her office hours to go during that time and beyond so if you had questions, come and see her, if not, then don't come. I went there to have one situation explained to me. It was good to have a one-on-one time. I believe I was the first one but two others showed up just while I was leaving.

And then to the Math Building computer lab to finish up my program (that is due tonight at midnight, yikes!). I should have done it earlier but Thursday was the only real time slot I had so I waited until then (it was assigned Tuesday). I left yesterday with one bug left so I came back today, figured out that I had invoked a method and sent instance variables that were not the same type as the ones in my constructor method, so that took a few seconds to fix and then I tested out the program and it worked! Amazing after piecing together so much stuff! But then I realized that it wasn't sorting correctly, they weren't being ordered by their prices like they should have been, so looking a little deeper revealed that I didn't create a .equals method for my selectionSort class. The instructions from the program were extremely vague, so I ended up just coming up with my own idea of how a .equals method could work and it did, so after that everything worked perfectly, I just added comments, cleaned up the code, and then submitted it.

In between all of this I helped another guy with his program. He's pretty bright but has been lost on these programs, if I suggest something he's on it and figuring it out right away though, he's just not as quick at debugging as I am (lots of practice with faulty programs I guess). So he finally got his program working just as I left and was pretty thankful. I felt glad that I was able to help, apparently I'm decent at showing what the problem is and how to correct it. I had a printed copy of my program but I wasn't going to just let him copy, I wanted him to see how each thing was done and why, people will do much better in the long run that way.

Then I came home and noticed how quickly it was warming up outside, which was nice for a bit. I actually wanted to take my coat off! I have been reading chemistry and doing odd things around ever since. I will be very glad to get this Chemistry class over with. It has been very difficult, a lot of theorectical stuff and Loads of new material, even the book says something like "and the wave pattern can be found by using this equation, now moving on to electron affinities..." and I'm thumbing through the pages and each page seems to cover a new topic and there are nearly 50 pages to some chapters. Yikes. I'm just trying to digest the bulk of it, there's no way I'd be an expert at it by the end of this course!

Oh, I kept forgetting but here's a self-portrait of myself ;)

Not bad eh? It's the best hat I had (picture-wise). I took a picture of myself outside against the camper side, which was white (camera was resting on top of my car), posed, then added the shading (cartoony look) to it in GIMP, added the hat, and put the canvas texture on. It may not look like much but it took me a long while to get it just right. I'm picky you see ;) That and I'm not familiar with GIMP so it took a lot of snooping around to find what I wanted.

Oh, and I had this strange dream last night..... first I was Batman and jumped off a roof with my wings and glided (hmm, sounds like it should be "glid" there, "glode"?) to the ground. The wind was kicking up so I spread the cape (using the awesome electrode things) and jumped up but of course the wings weren't very aerodynamic so all I could do was jump about 10 feet up and come back down. It at least gave me extra lifting power. Then I walked into the forest and somewhere along the way the conspicuous Bat suit disappeared and I was at a meeting with my brother I believe, in the forest, on logs, almost like a camping thing. It was for family membership in the RP church and my brother and I were representing the family since the rest hadn't arrived. I believe Mr. Yule was there. We sang a Psalm and wow, I knew most of the words! I woke up with the tune in my head I think it was 34A but I'm not positive. Of course I didn't know the words upon awakening though :(
Anyway, I don't remember what happened to the meeting but there was a truck driving very slowly through the woods on a dirt road and a few of us were walking, F.B. and I both started running to see if we could catch up but it sped up or something because though it had been going slowly, there was no chance of catching it running. It was almost as though it was harder to get to it running than walking, sort of like in Through the Looking Glass, where you had to go backwards to get anywhere, you had to run like the wind to stay in the same place. Odd.
Anyway, F.B. was very, very fast and I was trying and my legs were moving super fast but they were going so fast that I was just barely brushing with my tip-toes on the ground and soon I wasn't even touching the ground with my feet at all because they were going so fast. Naturally this meant a loss of traction so I was not moving foward very fast. I was able to hover above the ground a few inches though. I felt as though I should have been able to run faster and was quite willing (I love races) but couldn't. Does this mean that no matter how hard I pursue a truck (good grades) it will be like running in place, never getting good scores while F.B. keeps going. I should say she stopped and came back, probably because I looked so funny running so fast but not going anywhere.
Don't even try to interpret the dream. Me, I attribute it to that bean burrito last night and staying up too late. I always thought it was so funny how a dream will go from one thing to something totally unrelated (like flying as Batman to a church membership meeting) with no seeming discontinuity. Everything flows perfectly "normal" in a dream and nothing seems odd.

Oh, I saw an advertisement today for "Saline Nasel Spray," it's suppose to prevent colds so it's especially "useful" during this season. Okay.... so you spray salt up your nose, that can't feel good.

Here's an interesting quote from a while back,
Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.
- Italian Proverb

And in one sense, that is true from a wordly perspective, yet also from a Christian perspective, when we die, our works, our hopes are all for naught unless founded in the only true Hope. The pauper will be judged just as the king, no status aside from having Christ makes a difference. No wordly status is acceptable. Anyway, draw what conclusions you will, I rather liked the quote. And with that, I'm going to close for the evening. I have to.... go... place. (SB quote).