This is a week of non-academic celebration, and a week of academic commiseration. War of Honor, by David Weber (www.baen.com) is finally out. I had pre-ordered my copy at the Uconn Co-op. I only bothered them once unnecessarily before it came in. Of course, I bothered Tyr quite a bit more than that. I called from work to see if they had called to say it was in several times over the week. Baen has posted the first 14 chapters online, so I read those on Tuesday. Boy, was that a mistake. It cuts off just as the rising action is almost finishing. It finally came in on Friday, and I went and got it and then I brought it with me to Vampire. And then promptly left it in the Student Union, because we were in a hurry to see if The Dam Skillet was still open. So I had to go back on Saturday to get it back from lost and found (thank goodness they found it!). I have since put my name in it. Huzzah! In other book related news, I heard I saw, I think there was, a something somewhere on the net that Larry Niven is/has writing a sequel to The Burning City, which was a great book.

LAN party! at the Bishop Center next Saturday (Oct 12). It's gonna be great! *grin* If only because I'm there. We just did a little test LAN to make sure the new equipment works and make sure the games work... and cause we felt like it. :) The new switch works, and the Battlefield 1942 nocd works (yay!) and AvP2 works (stupid face-huggers) and me kicking Gabe's butt at Warcraft 3 also works (like a charm, baby! Like a charm). And we stayed up until about five making sure. So, this LAN party has been quality pre-tested. *grin*

Academic Commiseration:
Found out on Thursday that we have a mid-term exam in my Geology lab. I have never heard of a lab mid-term. I have had Lab finals for chem and physics, and that is fine, but a mid-term?!! So it is obviously unacceptable to begin with. But that's not the most fun part, yet. The exam is next Thursday, during our usual lab time (and we have a lab exercise to do after we complete the exam). The mid-term in Geology lecture is next Friday. That is completely unacceptable. I don't mind so much when two different courses have exams close to each other, because the professors cannot be expected to check each student's schedule when writing their syllabi. But two exams within the same course within a day of each other? Nope. And the material covered in lab and the material covered in lecture does not have too much (read: nothing) in common, so its not like we are studying for two different exams at the same time by looking at the same chapters in the book and stuff. Plus, as an extra-special-cherry-on-top-of-my-frickin-sundae, my CSE mid-term is next Thursday night. Smack dab between the lab mid-term and the lecture mid-term. It is also _during_ my ASL 1 class (at six in the evening). Our Geology TA was completely unapologetic. He said that we are in college to study, so we should be studying. We are in college to study, yes, but we are also here to pay your fricking salary, Garçon! My baseball bat is planning on being equally unapologetic. Grrr. (A note to the reader: calling a waiter 'garçon' is considered to be incredibly rude, because it means boy, or servent, or wretch, or something similarly demeaning. A true gentleman never gives offense. Unless he means it.)

Also, Ben Folds concert coming up in two weeks! Huzzah! Get to see Val again, possibly even before that. *grin*

That is all.

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