1/20/07

I’m in Orlando in the Port Orleans Riverside resort. I haven’t had much time to write lately. I am here for Lotusphere until Thursday night. Classes start on Monday, but I’ll have to miss the first week. I made an A in Psycholgy and A- in Ethics last semester.

I’m still trying to get my papers back from my Ethics professor. I probably should just let it go, but I won’t. I am going to keep bothering him until he finally gets it right. He probably won’t learn to be any more considerate, but I can try. At least I’ll get what I want out of it.

Anyway, I am taking Calculus-based Physics along with another programming course this semster. So I am going to be leaving work early two days a week, and I will be in class from 3:30 until 9:50 on M ondays. That’s a long day to start the week, but the last half of that is the Physics lab, so I may get to leave early.

I had a hell of time getting registered for that course. I had originally registered for two programming courses, but one got cancelled. When I went to register for this Physics course, it was full. I e-mailed the professor, and he told me to keep an eye on it in case someone drops it. Sure enough, someone dropped it last week. I went online to register for it as soon as I noticed, but it came back with a prerequisite error. I figured it had to be because it requires at least a year of high school Physics or the intro to Physics course. I took two years of it high school, but their system has no way of knowing that. So I called and e-mailed the professor again. He called me back within a couple of hours and asked if I had taken high school Physics and what my Calculus grade was. I had a B- in Calculus, and that was good enough. He overrode the error to let me register. I now have my 20lbs book to get started on my reading while I am flying.

The other course is actually one I have already taken half of. It was offered as two course up until this semester, and I already took the second half. So I have to take the combined course to get credit for the first half. I have already read all 16 chapters of the text book in order to get caught up when I took the second half. So I don’t expect that class to be too taxing. I breezed through the hard second half, so that plus a condensed version of the first should be even easier.

On the work front, things are less than desirable. It’s been hell ever since I got back from vacation. I did nothing but fix problems for the last two weeks. It was the most unproductive way to start the year.

I have more news, but I had better got for now before the rest of this large pizza gets cold. Yes, an entire large pizza just for me, but I don’t plan to eat the whole thing now. They just don’t sell anything smaller than a large for some reason.