I ended up watching Ringu with Aaron, Nick, Pita, and Dina. I will be sleeping in my closet for the remainder of the week. I think that the others have gotten over it much faster than I will.

I managed to finish as much of my cryptography assignment as possible on Friday. It pisses me off that we’re given such ridiculously hard problems to solve. I did a half-assed job on it, because I knew that there was almost no way I would be able to get a good mark. It ended up being two pages, handwritten. Pat’s was eight pages typed. Perhaps he’ll get 400% the mark I will.

I have a mid-term for every one of my courses on Valentine’s day.

I spoke with John today and he might not be coming up for reading week, which means that I might be going down instead. He’s had some very interesting poltics going at his office in the last week, causing him to be extremely busy. It’s always fascinating to hear how much he knows about the internecine workings of electoral politics. Almost something written by Golding.

I bought Dolores some Whiskas Temptations yesterday. They’re extremely small treats, so they don’t seem to take, even for a kitten, when she eats then with two bites.

I managed to get a copy of Simcity 4, which is amazing. I prefer not to play it for the time being, since Maxis did a sloppy job with ATI card compatability, and everything runs at a snail’s pace. I also got my hands on the Doom III alpha, which looks fucking amazing. The in game graphics can be mistaken for rendered videos, which is why my framerate drops to about 2 fps when something attacks me.

Nick introduced me to Ali G, and I’ve been trying to download his movies ever since. Ali G presents a sort of ignorant humour, being a wigga, that just makes me burst out laughing.

I need to remember to look up some Immanuel Kant and Ayn Rand, that Jeff told me about. All of the material seems to be interesting, and it looks as though I agree with much on both sides.