Great thoughts of Fleeting substance

Hi there everybody, just another day, just another ho-hum, la-te-da day. Nothing to see here, nothing special. What’s that? This thing? This belt here? What, this thing? You want to know about this? Well, it’s nothing special really, just my BROWN BELT! Oh, yeah, Noel’s going to the advanced class. What’s that? The man? Why I believe that would be…ah…me! Oh yeah, I’m da man. Victory! Woot, woot, woot! Aren’t you proud of me, Kevin? Your dumpy little student has progressed all the way to throwing counter kicks. How charming.

I have a midterm this Wednesday. First of the semester. Eep! I’m not actually that worried about it. The teacher says it’s mostly a test to make sure we have all our remedial stuff down pat. Course, he considers a *wide* swath of things to be remedial, so it’s not going to be a cakewalk by any stretch of the imagination, but I’m not stressing over it much. I figure with a little bit more preparation, I should be ready to take this one to the house! And every week that contains a midterm is one less week where I have stuff to learn. So this weekend promises to be a good weekend for planning out my class project.

I got permission from Trung to use the flight test data, and so that’s looking like the best be for my project at the moment. It promises to be a bit easier than some of the other projects I might attempt, just because I have some experience with it and a not-too-shabby block of data to work from.

Valentines day. Blegh. I suppose if there’s one silver lining to spending this much time on school, it’s that I have come to accept my single-ness as an inevitability for the next few months. Good grief, when would I have time? Never, that’s when. Heh. I’ll probably work on my lady-hunting skills along summer and winter. Or perhaps I’ll just wait until next year. Or perhaps I’ll just pull the same maneuver that worked last Halloween and just wait around until a girl stumbles into my lap. Regardless, I’m not worried about being single now. That’s okay. Valentines day can come and go; I’ll catch it later.

I did, however, take the opportunity to go very old school and get those horribly bad valentines day cards for everyone at work I know. Which is a lot of people, as it turns out. I got Harry Potter and Shark Tale Valentines. Choice lines include: “May you have a SPELLBINDING Valentines day” and “Valentines day chills my gills, yo”. Good gravy. Course, I got *candy* for everyone too. I’m a big fan of giving candy to people. I probably made something like 25 or 35 valentines, all told. The list included everyone in 619, my Roommate, my section head, a couple department managers, and our IT guy. Valentines day rule #1, you have to give valentines to everyone, even people you don’t like, and especially girls, even though they have cooties and are totally gross.

I also went out for some munchies with friends from work for dinner before TKD. *Single* friends from work. No couples allowed! Rawr! Heh. It was pretty fun, lots of jawing and lewd humour. Aaah. Genital jokes heal the soul, my friends.

So happy Valentines day to all the couples out there. And to all the single people out there, remember that there are worse things than being single. You could be single and…uh…bleeding internally. At least you’re not bleeding internally, right?

Ah, go hit a bar and buy someone a drink. It’ll make you both feel better.

-N