Final is over.

So my final was last week. In general it went very well. Though I realised after the test that I misinterpreted part of one of the questions. In my haste I wrote down trigonometric identities instead of Euler's equations for sinusoid. I really am a boob sometimes.

It's nice to be done with class for a while though!

'Bout 2 weeks till the cruise! Will be my first time cruising, should be pretty fun.

On that note, the Dept. of State forced me to get a new birth certificate. Because the one I've had my entire life is apparently not "long" enough... Some of you that know me will appreciate the irony in this story.

Now I've got to worry about getting my passport in time and wrapping up Christmas shopping. I've nailed down pretty much everything I want to get for people. Though, I've not necessarily ordered it all; Most of it can be had locally.

Went to the tamale festival at the Pearl brewery this weekend. Was good fun! The day was surprising hot for the middle of December! Was a good event, only managed to eat at 4 of the stands before being full. However parking around Pearl is somewhere between a cluster-fuck and all out chaos.

Which reminds me the Josephine restaurant located here wouldn't allow anyone to park under the highway. The entire area between josephine and greyson on the map. Mind you the that area could park probably park at least 10 times the number of people that could sit inside the maybe 1000 sqrft. restaurant. I understand needing to protect parking for your customers. But, you will never have that many people wanting in your establishment; And I sure as hell won't be going there now.

If it were my restaurant I would have saved the number of spots for maximum occupancy and then handed out coupons and menus to get the people parking in all those other spots to become customers. NOVEL IDEA.

Trials

I have a test today.

I was discussing with my girlfriend last night my current state. How I find having to study and do homework inconvenient, but that I also have a hard time seeing myself doing anything else right now. All in all, I think that's a good sign. Really all this says is that "hard things are hard", and that what I'm doing I actually want to do. It was just an odd perspective at that moment.

This last year certainly has included a bunch of changes: New job, new city, started graduate school, girl friend, house shopping. Though with all this in mind, I'm still resolute not to be too much of an adult.

Wikileaks is all in the news right now. I have mixed opinions on the subject. I think it's important for 'journalists' to uncover scandal or corruption, but I'm not so convinced that is what this is. This doesn't appear to be much of a focused revelation about anything, so much as someone just dumping over a filing cabinet in hopes of finding something good. However, the animosity being directed as Assange doesn't seem warranted. Too many politicians are throwing around the word 'terrorist' too liberally these days and it's not like he stole the documents personally, in all likelihood the person that did could have just sent them to any of the news agencies himself.

Anywho, back to studying...