For once, I need this.

I stepped outside today, on the dry, white, lonely concrete. Every morning I go outside, I open the steel door and the sky sets my mood.

I managed to pass my DNA and Quantum Computing mid-term with a 67% (somehow), but I failed my Networking and Communications mid-term with a 51%, where 55% is needed to pass. There’s only one mid-term left that I haven’t gotten back yet, but I don’t think it looks good.

I watched the first half of Safe, and it’s an interesting movie so far, concerning environmental issues. Julianne Moore plays the trophy wife of a high class Babbitt who starts to be overcome by health effects. It’s not really my preferred type of subject matter, but I’ll still finish the movie. Julianne getting her hair permed is reason enough for me.

I’ve been listening to my metal mix this entire week, and I suspect that I might listen to it for a little while longer.

It’s 12:06 am, and I’m very drowsy. Usually, I’ll go to sleep so I can get some work done in the morning, but for some reason, I feel like talking. And as I have no one to talk to, I’ll have to make due with writing. I actually wrote an entry earlier today, and two entries in one day is quite rare. It always seems to be the night, when I’m restless, that my loquacity is uncontrollable.

The Christmas Victoria Secret catalogue came in this week, courtesy of the previous resident, and there isn’t a single redhead in the issue. I’m very disappointed.

I think I’ll be switching my race to Humans, which is quite a big decision. I’ve never been good with micromanagement, especially in Starcraft. It’s like something I wasn’t raised with, so I can’t get better at it, the way you see older people hit a limit in their two word-per-minute typing speed. In Starcraft I think I hit a limit where I just couldn’t get any better, which completely sucked, because I wasn’t that good anyway. I think that by practicing with Humans, I’ll be better at learning how to micromanage. I’ve been sucked back in by Warcraft 3. It’s hard for me to imagine juggling a top 10 rank on the ladder, and having a girlfriend at the same time.

Somehow I got 94.5% on a mid-term (even though the average was about 90%). It makes up for other mid-terms I suppose, since I believe that I failed two of them. I’ll be able to defer the marks, however, for my Networking and Communications mid-term, to my final exam. That makes my assignments worth a piddly 15%, and my final a monstrous 85% of my final mark. Yay, I guess.

Something made me sad the other day, which hasn’t happened in a while. I seem to usually keep a very level set of emotions nowadays. It’s odd, because when I started dating Christie, things seemed to look better, and when we broke up, they seemed to still look better. I’m not really sure why. It’s like Christie helped me experience things that were good, so now I have those thoughts in my head.

I just finished the bulk of my mid-terms, though probably not unscathed. I hope that I can pass all of them, but I believe that I only passed one or two so far. I only have one left to go, but it should be much simpler, as I have the week-end to study for it. I believe that the problem this time was the fact that the three hardest mid-terms were bunched together in three consecutive days. That, and the fact that I should pay attention in class instead of trying to rescue Baby Mario from Baby Bowser. Quite the excuse.

I get to go out for lunch tomorrow at a place called The Black Tomato, as a co-worker is moving to a different division office in another city, and the workers here want to say goodbye. This means that I should be able to get an extra half-hour off work, and hopefully I can get drunk before continuing for the rest of the work day. I’ve only actually been inebriated at work twice before, both times from a drinking lunch as well. I hope they have Strongbow or Double Diamond on tap.

Louise asked me today how I can walk with my pants so baggy. I told her that walking was easy, because it feels like you’re not walking with pants on at all, which, I imagine, is a good thing.

I felt unkempt for most of the week, until today, after I was finally able to get a haircut, wash my dishes, clean my room, and just generally get things in order.