I for­got to plug in my freez­er after dis­con­nect­ing it to free up a spot on the pow­er sock­et on Saturday, so basi­cal­ly all my food has gone bad. I still have some break­fast and lunch food in the refrig­er­a­tor, but that’s about it. I won’t be able to do much gro­cery shop­ping this week due to all the shit I have to get done, and the most con­ve­nient store for me to get to is closed until the fall, so I’m pret­ty much fucked, food-wise, for a few days.

I can’t stand what peo­ple believe are Chinese accents. Every time I hear one from a North American source, the accent can’t be fur­ther from real­ism. Every time a Chinese per­son is on the Simpson’s, or a Crank Yankers prank call from a Chinese guy, or even the fuck­ing Chinese peo­ple speak in C&C: Generals, I get pissed off. Why don’t they just get an actu­al Chinese per­son to do the accent? The accents are not even close to what a nasty Chinese per­son sounds like. It’s like they have to tone down the accent so that peo­ple can rec­og­nize it (let alone under­stand what the per­son is say­ing), and so that it can be accept­ed by the gen­er­al pub­lic.

Speaking of C&C: Generals, I was able to get my hands on a copy of it today, a few days before it’s due out in Canada. It looks amaz­ing, but pos­si­bly a lit­tle too clut­tered for actu­al game­play pur­pos­es. I’m not sure if I’ll buy it yet. I’ll prob­a­bly wait and see if my friends are inter­est­ed in pur­chas­ing it for online play, and if I get addict­ed enough to war­rant sup­port of EA Games, although I’m sure they have enough mon­ey as a pub­lish­er of main­stream games already.

I got a com­pli­ment on my black nail pol­ish today. I was pleased, I guess, but I sup­pose that it’s rare that one would make a bad com­ment on some­thing like that; I think that most peo­ple, if not find­ing it atrac­tive, would sim­ply remain silent.

Somehow I got an 80% on my cryp­tog­ra­phy assign­ment. I imag­ine that the class aver­age was around there. The ques­tions were so dif­fi­cult that the TA had to be extreme­ly gen­er­ous with the marks. Pat end­ed up get­ting 88%, which I feel is unfair, since he spent so much more time on his assign­ment than I did. It seems to be such a plight of uni­ver­si­ty, that pro­fes­sors don’t real­ize that stu­dents’ capa­bil­i­ties are much low­er than theirs.