Sad. Tired. Hormonal. There was a ladder hanging from a crane while I was at the DC library on the weekend. I found a place in the back of the 2nd floor stacks where there's a corner of two picture windows opposite a historical building. Good place to pray, good place to study if you can sit crosslegged, which I can, although not for very long. :)

K, I have work to do. I have to stop thinking about Abuyya. It just depresses me right now.

I spoke too soon. I care about the sqrt of yuck. Aargh. Still in a good mood. (Actually working.) :D

I like max/min problems so far. This is why:

D'(x) = x/(yucky nasty)^.5 = 0

Guess what? I don't care what yucky nasty evaluates to!!! Is that not the most awesome thing evar??

Back to work, I'm at Love Cafe again. I'm actually doing Calc HW!! (I think this is going to be my 3rd place.) I'll explain what that is later, in case you're not familiar with the term. Later. :)

I'm in a good mood again.

3rd place? Check?

K, weirdo is in DC, at Love Cafe, the brainchild of lawyer - turned - baker Warren something. I've read a lot of bad reviews about the cupcakes, but came here anyway and wasn't disappointed. The cupcake was really, really good. Maybe not like Nuwra's, but very good. Melt on your tongue icing, substantial but not brickish cake.

I'm not a gourmand or anything, but I enjoyed it, and the hot chocolate I washed it down with was lacking in whipped cream but otherwise very good also. Maybe you have to ask for whipped cream, I don't know.

I could see myself getting a lot of work done here. I'm not getting it done at home, that's for sure.

Back to work. I just started this project - way too late and I'm stuck on the first part. Woohoo. /end sarcastic enthusiasm.

Sooo tired. I fell asleep at work today. Fortunately, the people that came in were all people who like us a lot, mainly because we've done good work in the past for them or are handling something sticky with poise and aplomb. We're good at poise and aplomb.

Anyway, I am way too tired. I raided last night, sure, but then I went to bed at a decent time. 1:30 am > 2am, which is when I usually fall into bed. I want to go home. Like, now. And eat and take the night off. Except I won't, because I want to start the weekend out right for once and be ahead of the work curve.

Goals for the weekend: Finish all Calc HW for next week. Understand for once how the heck to do problems based on what we did this week (extreme values). Finish my programming project. Update my wow addon so it doesn't spew way too many decimal places of attack speed, although that last is minor, very minor compared to the others. Oh yes, and level inscription, if I decide to. And decide what to do about wrath raiding.

Whee! Look Mom, I'm blogging at work. It's a slow day here in the halls of techdom, so I have my uber-awesome Gateway P-6831FX, best laptop evar set up next to my work machine.

I shouldn't be this happy. Apparently I am losing not only brain cells but also the drive and ambition to labor in pursuit of grades. I want more! I consider this is a step forward. I actually want to be able to do something when I graduate. I already have a degree Summa Cum Laude. It wouldn't kill me terribly to not have another one. Ok, I lie a little. 2 Summa degrees would be awesome. But, if it's a choice between 2 Summa degrees and one Summa and another that's not but during the pursuit of which I had a life, and friends and stayed weird but got unbroke and spoke to non-work, non-family, non-zomg we-sit-next-to-each-other-in-class-and-periodically have-a-monosyllabic-exchange people on a regular basis it would be worth the very very slight blow to my ego and the inability to brag over my 3.8, 3.75, 3.9 w/e. I'm going for a 3.5. Why 3.5? Because it opens up honors. I'm a girl, my epeen isn't all that important to me.

Anyway, point is, I had a calc exam this morning which I probably bombed. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, probably in part because I raided last night and got enough sleep last night, both vital to my mental happiness. :)

Oh, and I still have some smartness left :D. I taught myself Newton-Raphson method and the other, more basic version of linear approximation in about 20 minutes this morning.

See, that frustrates me a little: If I could just get the efficiency within going before the morning of the exam, how much easier would all this be???

I can't complain though. Raid night was great, despite having to get guildies' friends to come in and fill up the raid. I did get enough sleep. I don't feel tired or grumpy or hormonal and most important...I AM STUDYING.! I'm studying, I want to study, even if I'm not highly effective in my study habits, yet. Yet.

It could be sooo much worse.