migblog

today was ridiculously beautiful. it showered outside for a few minutes before i left for my last portuguese workshop class of the semester (sadness...), and then there was sun and more ridiculous beauty. it was like a scene from a movie. i half-expected to see the perfect suburban house behind vlsb, you know, one with a white picket fence, a husband and wife and their two and a half kids dressed in gap clothing with smiles on their faces. the black labrador playing with the sprinkler in the lawn would be highlighted by the saccharine blue of the sky. and i would be wishing that i felt better since this cold and this cough and this sore throat sure as hell are not going away by themselves.

it's also only a quarter til eight right now in the room, but once again, i'm all alone. go bears.

maybe it's just preparation for the upcoming year. i'm expecting to have a place by then (yeah, woo, no housing just yet). actually, now that i think about it, a lot of people acted a bit shocked when i told them i was planning to move out of th. zach said it was my kind of place, angela said i was the perfect house member, and a bunch of people were thinking i would stay here for a while. well, due to a few things, i've decided against living here next year. it might be a longshot trying to find any decent living quarters now, but i think it'd be better for me since my schedule is entirely fucked up in the fall.

so on the academic side once again, i think the cognitive science department has taken a big shit on all the undergraduates trying to declare the major, since math fifty-five (discrete mathematics)is looking like a prerequisite now. they're making it mandatory for everyone to take math fifty-five before they can take computer science one-eighty-eight (artificial intelligence), which is a core class for the upper division requirement. more red tape, more units, all the juniors and sophomores just took the biggest crap in their pants right now trying to fit that class in their schedules. looks as if i'll have to substitute math for statistics in my summer schedule.

the crazy thing is, now that it's almost eight, and sitting in the same spoot in this chair facing the tv, i watched the sunset. the trees and the buildings outside were bathed a lustrous gold, then a robust orange, and now a sultry red. the hum of jacob's computer is in the background, the click-clack of my keyboard is tapping some weird rhythm, and my nose is still stuffy and running. i've spent fifteen minutes rambling on about things i consider worthy of noting and then proceed to write in here.

by the way, noli, if you read this, thanks for the ride home last night. i'm fine, if you're wondering. didn't mean to scare you -- there's nothing i can do about it, and it sucks.

and now there's a light shower again. ahh, california weather. just like your celebrities: give it five minutes, it'll change. but i guess change is a good thing, considering berkeley is now starting to lull thanks once again to finals week, which happens next week. (along with the matrix 2, which you know will screw with everyone who has a final that day.)

yeah. it's only thursday. everyone can't wait for tomorrow to come. yeah, even you.

posted by Open Source Food @ 8:07 PM