This week\’s Friday Five

1. Hey, baby, what\’s your sign? Do you think it fits you pretty well?
Gemini. Ugh, somehow everything relates back to Alan and it shouldn\’t. Alan and I are both Gemini and I remember how we used to allude to how we found each other\’s lost twin. Sigh. Yes, but it does fit me well. I think I have two split personalities (see my bio)-the shy, quiet one and the outgoing, obnoxious one.
And according to horoscope.com, Geminis have so many talents and interests, sometimes you may find that your attention gets split between too many things at once. It\’s just so easy for to start doing something, then get distracted by something else that seems equally as fascinating. Yet this diversity will also be the root of your success, for you have the ability to accomplish much more than the average person, often in a relatively short time. You\’re able to keep track of a wide range of information that would confuse a lesser person. Rather than causing undue stress, the many demands on your time and attention actually seem to increase your energy and motivation.
How ironic. I started studying for my CS midterm five minutes ago and I ended up doing the Friday Five. Yet, I find that…I am more interested in observing people and collecting information about them. I know that out of all the people I know…I tend to be the most aware of my environment. At least…except for the environment in close vicinity since I do often trip over my own two feet.

2. What\’s the worst birthday gift you\’ve ever received?
Getting none? :)
Okay, well I probably blocked those horrible memories from my mind. It\’s just like how I can\’t remember my sister playing jokes on me when I was young.

3. What\’s the best birthday gift you\’ve ever received?
At the moment, I can only think of the best christmas gifts I ever received. As for birthdays, in high school my friend Rebecca got me the best gifts…specifically because I asked for them. One year, she got me a whole package of candy (because I had a major sweet tooth at that time). The next, she got me Maaaaahlow! Yes, the monkey. The following year she got me a blank book and J.D. Salinger\’s The Catcher in the Rye (since I was obsessed with Holden that year). Now…I wonder what I\’ll receive this year.

4. What\’s the best way you\’ve celebrated your birthday thus far?
I have always attempted to throw a party near my birthday. Last year\’s party was fun. Although sadly, I am no longer friends with most of the people that went. We first went to a Chinese restaurant for dinner although at first I had objected to having a Chinese dinner, but then I discovered that my parents would pay for it…so why not? :) Then we went to Barnes and Nobles just to browse around. Although we called Alan to wish him a happy birthday too (our birthdays are really close to each other)…which was hecka depressing…it was fun. Then we crashed at my house with music pumping from my computer speakers. It was the first time that I was around people who at the time I could call a friend.

5. What are your plans for this weekend?
Well, my friday is starting off with a CS midterm. :( SAD! But then…afterwards, I plan to go home and spend a night there. On Saturday, I am taking the car to drop off something for Calvin. Then driving to Alameda for a spaghetti feed with Stacee and Simon. Then maybe I\’ll be nice and give someone in Berkeley a ride. Ugh, then I have to finish my CS project and study for my EE midterm and MCB midterm.

I am occupying queue 17 to 31 now. :) they already deleted the queues from 2:30 pm. In preparation for my CS midterm tomorrow, I am printing everything that I can get my hands on. Isn\’t open-everything great?

Too bad we don\’t get open computer or better yet, open geeks.

Wish I had some food with me right now…there\’s this message on the board:

Thanks to all the courteous students who pick up after themselves.

To all the rude individuals who leave their food garbage, eventually you may be caught.

I am just killing time that I should be using to study.

Ugh, I am number 148 in the printing queue. :p Looks like I\’ll be in Soda for awhile.

Print mcb lecture notes.

Print ee solutions.

Print cs homework/pre-lecture quiz/practice midterm solutions.

Print ee labs.

Boy, was I dumb. :p

During CS lecture, I got out my stuff…and put my green folder underneath my chair. Being me, I left it there. I realized that when I was trying to find my EE homework. My heart leapt and I ran out of Evans all the way to VLSB. Jumped the hill to the doors to VLSB and sprinted back up. I was really out of breath when I came back. I was sweating profusely…or wait…girls don\’t sweat, they glisten! Yes, I was glistening. :)

How dumb though. The professor never showed. We left after fifteen minutes of no-show (fifteen minute rule!) And there was no reason for me to run. Except to get exercise.

Trade-off.

Free ink. Free paper. Laser printing. Printing on both sides. Long queues. I was number 68 once.

That\’s printing in the labs.

I think they just deleted me.

The gray skies have cleared to a bright blue. :D

Well, okay it\’s night right now. It\’s no longer raining (I think). Also, I figured out the EE homework that has been taunting me all day. Thanks to google and my friends, the gray skies of EE have cleared up.

Me happy now.

I think I can finally sleep peacefully.

It\’s such a huge ego boost when someone acknowledges that you know more than everyone else. Okay, so that itself is screwy.

My friends called for help again for CS61B, the class of horror I took last semester. So as I was taking a break from cranking out reasons why they were getting null pointers, a guy (probably a first year) came over to me, \”Can I ask you a question?\”

I gave him a confused look. Turns out that he thought I was a TA, because I was talking in one of those TAish voices to my friends. Ego boost.

Java is GOD!