these school days just leave me beat. 7:30am wake up for a 40 minute walk to campus for a day filled with classes. i tried really hard to take less than 20 units this quarter, but once i actually went over that, i just broke the dam and picked up putnam seminar, TAing pete's class, taking pete and chris' branch and cut something or other graduate seminar all in addition to my two grad compsci classes, chem class/chem lab, upper div music class and the 5-series calc classes in one quarter with ryavec.

free time i spend on campus is being used to try but ultimately not do any work on my agc research which, although at some point we thought we had down, is now looking impossible once again because of an error we have in lemma 11 (if you can point out the error, i'll give you a prize). in somewhat related news, although i was getting a small stipend to work on the agcs this summer though ccs, i am no longer getting any. today, at break during suri's class, i was talking to him about stuff including the research when he brings up that he's got some money from an nsf grant that he has to spend on an undergraduate and that some time later in the quarter when i've learned some more advanced algorithms, i could probably start working for him and get money for it too. this was totally sweet.

this weekend was susanna and i's birthday. stacie and eleanor were awesome enough to cook dinner for the house and friends (including a sweet ass cake) totalling to 13 people. the evening also included a game of settler's of catan (an amazing board game) and cranium.

last night i finally finished season 5 of stargate. this is a joyous event because the last two seasons have been terrible and season 6 looks like it's going to be awesome (even jay says so).