I’ve been brave enough to listen to The Postal Service lately, although my enjoyment is restricted to headphones on the bus. It’s still something that’s a little too personal to be listening through speakers, and for some reason, I’m not comfortable with others hearing the same songs that I do. It’s as if being able to hear the same trippy beats and soft voices gives other people the ability to experience the memories that the music brings to my mind; curves in a gentle face, car rides through the thick summer air, nervous fumblings on the couch, the scent of unfamiliar sheets.

They’re all good memories, nothing painful anymore, but it’s all something I’d like to keep to myself for just a little longer.

The moving is mostly finished, and all that’s left is a bunch of computers and monitors from Trolley’s and Wheaties’s old place, and a small freezer, suit, and food dish from mine. There’s still lots of unpacking to do; the 24-foot moving van we rented was actually too small, and some stuff had to be dropped off at the new place before the rest could be fit in. The small freezer is a bit of a worry, but hopefully we’ll be able to borrow my boss’s 4Runner and have Nick’s help to move it in on the weekend.

We ended up having nine people helping the three of us, twelve people moving in total, so things went fairly efficiently.

The exam I wrote today may possibly be the last one of my university career. I don’t plan on going back to school any time in the future. It was both the most and least satisfying exam I’ve ever written. I’m positive that I failed, so it’s sort of a sour note to end on, but I’m also ecstatic to be out of school. I approached my final computer science exam written last year with hesitation. The entire tech sector was suffering at the time, development jobs were already scarce, and I was about to be thrown into limbo. Now that I’m done, and nothing follows me home, I’ll have time to work on a few extra projects I haven’t finished yet. That also means that I can hang out with Aaron and Trolley more, or go home to visit Darren and John on the long weekends. As for Pat, I’ve learned to let him arrange the subsequent meeting because he’s always busier than I am.

Today, I left the exam two hours early, after throwing everything I knew on the page. I stepped out into the refreshing spring weather, when it’s between a brisk fall day and a summer night.

Just finished writing my economics exam. I found out last night that the exam was at 9:00 am instead of 2:00 pm. Usually, I make a last minute check of the schedule before I go to sleep the day before, so it was a shock. The last few hours before an exam are integral in my ability to pass, so my plan to study with Aaron basically fell through.

I have no idea how well I did though. Going in, I was thinking that it would be a sure fail, but I ended up confidently answering the majority of the questions. I only read through the material once, and didn’t do any review. If I do somehow end up passing this course, than either:

• I can remember 90% of what I understand or
• economics is a really easy program compared to comp sci, or
• first year courses are extremely simple after passing fourth year ones, or
• there was some sort of divine intervention

I’ve decided that just passing one of my courses will my satisfying. That way the term won’t be a complete waste.

I found an old receipt in my wallet while packing up and cleaning today. It was for a VCR I purchased two years ago for the parents of an ex-girlfriend. I got the extra two-year extended warranty, and even though we’ve long been broken up, I still kept the receipt just in case the parents ever decided to contact me if the VCR ever broke. The warranty expired this February though, so I can finally toss the receipt. I hope the VCR is still okay.