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November 25, 2003
I dreamed about replication last
I dreamed about replication last night. Not just plain ol' like, sci-fi like replication, but more like, "how do I address THIS replica using DHT?" and nightmares as such. The entire night was filled with replication. My entire body was the ID space, what did I have to do to replicate my arm? How would I address it? I thought I was going to go insane. Needless to say, it was not a good sleep. Man, am I such a dork. Thank goodness it's Thanksgiving break soon.
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November 21, 2003
Beth made this awesome German
Beth made this awesome German Chocolate cheesecake. I would've eaten like three slices if I could... I think I'm going to hit food coma pretty soon....Yum. :)
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November 20, 2003
I am a coffee fiend.
I am a coffee fiend. I drank TWO cups of coffee this morning with ZERO sugar. Wow. Go me. I guess there is something to say about fresh coffee. Makes me feel less like I am putting on the pounds drinking coffee loaded with sugar and cream. I'm so proud of myself. Hahah.
I have decided, that Simon annoys me. Like, REALLY super-duper annoys me. Every morning I think I want to kill him. I never knew kittens could be SO hyper. I bet you, at the rate and level he meows at, my landlord will want him out of our apartment in like the next week or so. Stupid kitten. Portia is much more relaxed. All she does in the morning is purr. That's my kind of morning cat. Can you tell I have a propensity for one over the other? I am such a bad cat owner. Heheh.
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November 14, 2003
Today is a pouty day.
Today is a pouty day. Actually, this whole entire damn week has been a pouty week. Grr. I feel like I need a lot of attention. I am an attention demanding bitch. *Sigh* Most times I feel like I can be self-reliant (apparently I give off the aura I can get my shit done), but sometimes, I feel like being taken care of. At least, sometimes, when I feel a little lost and scared, I want someone to make sure I am ok. And in the end, I noticed that the only person that really does a good job of that is Mike. Bleh.
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November 11, 2003
Yay! It's over. Last night
Yay! It's over.
Last night was pretty rough. It got to the point where I really just couldn't contribute anymore. You kno, where you just don't have the "experience" to know what is wrong with a paper? That was where I was at. I felt...relatively useless. But, in the end, we got the paper done at 2:55 in the morning, submitted it and all. I was still on an adrenaline rush afterwards, so I couldn't fall asleep until like, almost five in the morning. But, yeah, it's over, it's good. Now, I can go back to working out. Hahaha.
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November 08, 2003
I want mail *pout*. Mail
I want mail *pout*. Mail is like, a method of procastrination when you don't want to do what you are doing. But it's a bit hard to procrastinate when there is no mail to read. Nobody loves me *sniffle*.
You know, the other thing I hate about deadlines? I find that I end up eating better (ie, my advisor pays for dinners and lunches since we are "researching away") and I work out less. See, this just "tastes" (long story...) like a bad idea. Not only is my body going to shit b/c I don't get to go to the gym, I'm also eating a million billion extra calories too. Doesn't that seem wrong? I just went out to get coffee with some people, and we ended up eating a tiramisu cheesecake AND a brownie. Sheesh.
I think I am being whiny. Must be that time of the month. I sure do complain a lot when that time comes. I think I should try to find a correlation between the frequency of my blog posts and the time of the month. I bet there would be something there. Hehe.
Posted by szujin at 10:21 PM | Comments (0)
I was wrong. Simon escaped
I was wrong. Simon escaped one more time. I'm so worried that soon my cousin will just be like, "forget this, no cats." And then I'll be really sad. Boo.
Anyway, I went home kind of early on Thursday because my contacts were bothering me, and I was doing a pretty good job doing my thing at home (ie trying to do research), when my advisor called me up to tell me she wanted to submit to a workshop that had a deadline of Monday. MONDAY!!! I was like, "what the..." but who am I to be like "hellz no!"? So, here I am, on a Saturday afternoon working on this paper. Of course, at this moment I am slacking, but whatever.
Argh...got called back to do work. Man. Another long night tonite. Bleh.
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November 06, 2003
Man. I let my friend
Man. I let my friend drive my car today while I was there (as we all kno I am a lazy ass when it comes to driving...), and he managed to scrape my car against a brick corner (it's sort of on the way when backing out of my parking spot at home). Needless to say, I was annoyed at him and really pissed at myself. So, right after the incident, I said I would drive. And the entire time, I was sort of expecting to hear a "I'll pay for it" as a courtesy remark even if he didn't really want to pay for it, you know? I don't know if I was just expecting too much, but I kind of thought that people were supposed to say that. But since he didn't, the only reason I could come up with is that I was the one who was a lazy POS, and if I asked him to drive my car, I should deal with the consequences. So, I was having a heavy debate in my head, trying not to be mad, but obviously getting madder and madder. Well, apparently he figured it out (that I was mad; he can be sort of clueless at times) and was like "You know, I'm going to pay for the damages, obviously." And THEN I felt sort of stupid. I dunno, was I supposed to just assume he would? I always thought people were supposed to say they would before the other person would go off believing so. I dunno, but anyway, yeah, there is a huge scratch on my bumper now *sniffle*. My poor baby.
On the other hand, Portia and Simon have been ridiciously bad recently. Apparently my Japanese screens + dog stopper (you know, the gate looking things that are supposed to block off a room for kids or dogs?) idea didn't work as well. Portia and Simon have jumped, moved, climbed past the barriers for the last three days, pissing my cousin off to no end. So, today, Scott and I spend a few hours trying to fix this problem (as I think my cousin's patience has deteriorated by A LOT). We tied strings around the Japanese screens, thinking that if the fabric didn't move as much, they wouldn't be able to climb out. We were REALLY wrong about that one. Simon took a grand total of half a minute to get past that one. It was sort of funny; we used Simon as our "attacker" (as Scott put it in security terms), and we were proving that even with complete knowledge of how the system works (ie, he could move the fabric a little bit), our system was provably secure (wow, did we go into dork terms or what?). You know, the whole idea that good crypto systems have no secrets. I was telling Scott that he shouldn't show Simon the possible weaknesses, and Scott threw that stuff at me. I think it must be TAing the security class that is doing this to him. But anyway, we spent a good amount of time before we think we found the right solution. We pulled Portia out of the living room and shut the barrier again, and this final time, Simon wasn't able to get out. But, both of us are worried that it's only because he was just too tired to try (we did make him do it like five times...). I dunno. I guess the ultimate test comes tomorrow. Hope it works *cross fingers*
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November 03, 2003
I got two new kittends
I got two new kittends over the weekend! YAY! I've had to corner off my living room, as my cousin refuses to have them anywhere else in the apartment, but our living room is large enough that I think that the two kitties will be ok. I have a regular domestic short-haired girl named Portia, and a Siamese mix boy named Simon. They are CRAZY. I've never had kittens before (well, Mike has a kitty, but she is pretty normal), and I've especially never had TWO kittens together before. They like to chase each other and make lots of noise. I thought I was about to go insane for the first three hours when they got back to my place. They jumped over everything and practically climbed the walls, it was wild. But then, they calmed themselves down and fell asleep. Portia has this weird crazy habit of liking to lick peoples' faces, and she has that sandpaper tongue of hers, but overall she's a cutie. Simon is like the petulant little brother who likes to crash into everything that Portia is doing (including when she is taking a dump...), plus he is super duper hyper. I think I am going to enjoy them. :)
Other than that, I watched the sneak preview of "Love Actually." It was really good. Hugh Grant has redeemed himself and become a hottie again, and Colin Firth hasn't lost it yet either(amazingly enough). The storylines were really good; I think I might have to go watch it again. The movie is totally like Bridget Jones' Diary in that the music is heavily tied into the plotline (ie, it moves the story), and I really like that. So, yeah, GO WATCH IT. :)
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