Semester might not turn out as well as I had originally thought?
Eh.. it happens. This was just one of those semesters for me... Though I've think I've been saying that for every semester since I started here?
I need to keep myself busy over break, get myself in the habit of doing things. Hopefully DMing a campaign will help, I should also really REALLY start on a programming project of some sort this break. I know I said I'd do something like that over the summer, but I never... did. I just need to kick myself in the ass to get started and it should be fine. Depends what I wanna do: implement the shadow color changer in xfwm (this would definitely help my understanding of C and GTK+; nevermind the fact that contributing to an opensource project looks damn fine on a resume), or finally do that mpd music client I wanted to do (which would allow me to learn Python as well as require me to read up on the various licenses as I would most likely opensource the project (which would probably also look damn fine on a resume)). I'll have to see if I can start a decent workout regimen over break too, I've a) been slacking lately and b) got nothing to really work myself extra hard unless I go to Keating (which I'll try to do next semester?).
So I totally slept through my night class today. It's the last class before the exam, since the class meets once a week. It's UNIX/Shell Scripting, though, so it shouldn't be all that bad, yeah? All of my classes are salvageable, with some work. And by salageable I mean I could get a C, possibly a B. I really need to stop this consistent 2.0GPA every semester. It's really bringing my overall GPA down. I'll start working on that next semester (hah).
I love having two computers. I get the increased productivity and screen space of having two monitors, but everything on the second monitor does not touch the first computer's resources at all. Granted, this means I can't drag windows between monitors (though the guy(s?) behind synergy are looking to do that. Would that even be possible??). It's really nice to have my assignment up on the right screen and be typing my paper on the left. No need to alt+tab to look at the next bit, just glance to the right. Productivity soars. Or, at least, it does when I don't have other distractions. Such as the D&D 3.5 Player's Handbook and Dungeon Master's Guide. Glancing through the DMG is giving me ideas for my campaign. Ideas I really shouldn't be thinking about until next Thursday at 1PM. Glancing through the PHB is making me remember my old Bard and Druid.
My exam schedule is as such:
Monday:
10:30-12:30 ITM440 Data Networks
17:00-19:00 ITM302 Unix/Shell Scripting
Tuesday:
17:00-19:00 PSYC3?? Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Thursday:
10:30-12:30 CS351 Systems Programming
The two ITMs are done with right away, and they should be easy ones anyway. Then I study my butt off for the final AND cumulative exams for Psych (back to back), and then I study my ass off for Systems. This could work.. sort of.
I imagine AndrAIa will get very little use at home. The majority of the time I'll have no where to put her, and when I do she'll have to be horizontal so that I can lay the fan on top of her graphics card (the fan on the card itself has been dead since sometime during the summer of '07), this takes up a lot of space... Though the LAN Party really wouldn't be the same without her...
I'm getting some favorable responses to the D&D thing, but over on Facebook. Looks like about four or five people are interested right now and I think it's pretty safe to include David and possibly Brian in that list. This could work pretty well I think.
I really need to stop sleeping funny, my arms are always sore when I wake up.
I'm working on my Data Networks paper right now.. it's all right, just gotta generate wordcount. Thing needs to be four or five pages long, single spaced.
Then I've got both a dynamic memory allocator (oh god, why couldn't this one be easy to figure out like the shell we had to write?) for Systems as well as a random password generator (easy peasy, just time consuming) for Unix to write by Wednesday night. On Thursday I'm presenting, with my group, our project. Fun stuff. I don't look forward to any of it. I can't wait for this semester to end, but at the same time I really enjoy it here and don't quite want to go home... :/ Plus, how will I play Call of Duty 5 over break?! I'm borrowing Corey's Wii copy, but he's going to take that home with him :(
I've also got a ton of Data Networks homeworks to get done, but I should be able to whip those out in a couple of hours or so.
I swear I'm working on my paper...