April 26, 2006

• Random thoughts from the computer lab…

  Mom came to visit Sunday and Monday, AND she even brought the dog!  We
  had a lot of fun looking at all the scrapbook pages she’s made of my
  early years!  I was pretty much the cutest little kid ever.   (What
  happened?  There I said it now you don’t have to! :-p)  And don’t worry
  Dad, I did get plenty of homework done.  

  Dad’s overseas right
  now – he made it to Dubai safely so that is good!  I think he enjoyed
  his day off there as well.  (They arrived at 5am and then got the rest
  of the day to sightsee and get on schedule.)  I’m mucho jealous,
  because I now have the travel bug and want to go anywhere that is
  foreign and/or exotic and Dubai is both!  Plus, they have the biggest
  mall in the world.  And speaking of the world, they are building
  islands of the whole world in the marina – country by country!  I’m
  hoping that Texas gets its own island so I can buy it someday when I’m
  rich.   He flies back this weekend, so say a prayer for safe travel!

  My car turned 1000 (miles) on Sunday, which was really exciting!  I
  wish I’d had a camera because I totally would have pulled over and
  taken a picture!

  I have lots of tests, hw, labs, and projects
  due this week, so it’s a good thing Google created their snazzy page
  maker to suck all my time away.  (Sarcasm, kids.)  Check out
  http://ashley.pagnotta.googlepages.com/ and let me know what you think,
  and what I should use it for!  It’s completely unnecessary, but I like
  it anyways.  It’s super easy; you don’t have to know any HTML!  (If you
  want a Google invite so you can make your own, let me know I have a
  bunch!)

  It’s hailing on my car.

  My computer
  science prof hides funny comments in the documents he puts out for our
  class.  These documents are very useful because they tell us how to do
  our labs.  It is funny (to me, at 1:45am) to come across, in the middle
  of a lot of code, the heading “Act as if we have some work to do” and the corresponding code for it.  Hehe.

  The lab is so much more pleasant (and less sterile/anti-creativity)
  with my music.  Thank you Vanessa, Counting Crows, Gillian, Cory,
  random church choirs, and Aaron Watson.  Speaking of Aaron Watson. 
  “Off the Record” is my new favorite song.  I pretty much tear up every
  time I hear it, and I want to track him down and give him a big hug. 
  You should dl it.  (Legally, of course.  Yay iTunes for making legal
  downloads easy!)

  I have a new friend in the cs print room. 
  Some other guy was working the printer tonight, pulled a bunch of
  printouts off, and asked me for my user name.  My friend says “It’s
  ashpags, don’t you know her by now?  She’s my favorite customer! ” 
  Which, now that I type it, sounds stalker-ish, but really it’s not. 
  I’ve printed almost 600 pages in there so far this semester.  That’s a
  lot.  He’s allowed to know me.

  Well, I’ve done as much as I
  can on the cs lab.  Still don’t understand linked lists, a key part of
  this lab.  Crapola.  Hopefully the TA will be helpful tomorrow.  Now, I
  have to relearn spherical geometry for some of my research stuff. 
  Fabulous.  I’ll do that at home!

  “lost somewhere, in life’s complications”

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