Current mood:	happy
Current music:	Offspring - Have You Ever

Curling and other things that are almost trivial by comparison
First and foremost, I have this to say: I rock at curling. Okay well maybe it's too early to tell on that one, but several of the old dudes at the curling club told me I was picking it up very quickly, and I certainly enjoyed it. But perhaps I should back up on the timeline. Porkchop found out that the Norfolk Curling Club was having an open house this past Sunday. We formed a raiding party consisting of me, Nina, Porkchop, Kershaw, Pyg (who is apparently named Jeff, who knew?), and Sean (IBM, not MCCS). We were expecting to be six of ten or so people that showed up, but everyone involved (including the club) was shocked to see something like 60 or 70 people show up. We watched a quick video explaining the basic delivery and then worked through some practice drills and eventually tried some full-length curling, which was made much better when they let us try wearing a teflon slider on our front foot. This made things a lot smoother (and falling a lot easier). Eventually most people went home, and Nina, Porkchop, and Kershaw went into the lodge to watch, and it was down to me, Pyg, Sean, three other kids, and one club member, so we had a couple "real" ends (innings). We lost 2-1, but it was a lot of fun. I did pretty well throwing, but Sean and Pyg put me to shame with the sweeping. I kept falling behind the rock for some reason. As un-cool as it sounds, I highly recommend that anybody who has the opportunity to try it out does so. The nice thing is that nobody looks good when they're trying to learn so even the un-coordinated fit in just fine. I have some videos which I'll post sometime later.

Other things:
We're more or less in the home stretch for this semester, and I'm really looking forward to the end of the semester for several reasons: the end of this "loose ends" semester, the start of my summer internship, and the end of my tenure as President of MCCS. It's not that I don't like MCCS anymore or that I've stopped caring, it just wears on me having so many people count on me when most of the administrative types who I depend on don't help me. I wouldn't mind so much if it was just a matter of me staying on top of things, but I hate when my members are counting on me to come through and nothing I do will matter if the Media Center decides not to give us any projectors. (I guess I should have put Graduation on the list of things to look forward to but I still haven't convinced myself that I'm excited about a hot day spent wearing a black robe and an uncomfortable hat...)

Got a 97 on my second exam in Calc III, so now I just need like a 90 on the third exam plus a decent homework average to be exempt from the final.

Tomorrow we find out how the Algorithms mid-term went. It's 40% of the grade, and we need to get reasonably high marks for Master's classes to count, so I'm a little anxious to see that one.

Got to see my car for the summer and/or next semester. It's a Ford Tempo from the 1988 vicinity with 25k miles. That's just stupid low. It's a little ugly and it's got those annoying automatic seatbelts, but if it saves me from having to buy a car of my own until I have a full-time job I'll be ecstatic.

Back on the hunt for an apartment. Any future prospects will not be ruined like the last one. (And if anyone in the Poughkeepsie area knows of a decent 3-bedroom let me know.)