Shadowfiend23 @ Wrocław

So, I am pretty sleepy right now, but I haven’t written for a while, so I will quickly summarize my past few weeks. I took a french test and a physics test last Friday – I will be getting them back this Friday and tomorrow, respectively. I think I did very well on the physics test and pretty well on the french test. The french teacher told me that I should consider being a french major because she thinks I am so good at it. I wonder whether she meant that…also, what provoked the comment? She just told me before class.

Anyway, we saw Obama a few Saturdays ago at the Field House. We waited in line for three hours, thinking that there was no way we were getting in (as the line snaked from the Field House, down Washington, up Church St., around the Mall (where we were), and down the Washington Ave. bridge). We saw first a student speaker, then Al Franken, then Amy Klobuchar, then Mark Dayton, then Obama himself. Deanna’s friend Amy waited with us most of the time but she left to go somewhere with her aunt and uncle about ten minutes before we got in (big mistake in my opinion). Umbrellas were not permitted inside the building, but it was forecasted to rain that day, so many trees along the line were adorned with discarded umbrellas. Deanna was too short to see the speakers very well, but Jake and I could see pretty well. I don’t have any pictures available at the moment because Deanna lost the memory card she was using to take the pictures (it’s fine).

On a similar note, I voted on Tuesday. There was quite a commotion because I didn’t have any documentation (with me) to prove that I lived at the Dinkydome and because the Dinkydome wasn’t in their lists of addresses, but it all worked out. I like to think that my vote counted.

We had a java assignment assigned on Monday that was supposedly very difficult, but it didn’t take me more than about an hour to do. All it does is determine whether two strings are anagrams of each other, but the catch is that non-letter characters are to be ignored. I decided just to count the number of letter characters in the first and then second string, returning that they are anagrams of each other only when the count for each character is equal. I was first considering the permutation method, but doing ten factorial twice would take just a bit too long. I like my solution.

Normally, I have physics homework due on Thursdays, so I scramble to finish it on Tuesdays and Wednesdays by meeting with some people from my physics class and going over the homework. However, we thankfully don’t have any homework due tomorrow. So, instead of studying tonight, Lucas, Joe, Deanna, and I just met at Middlebrook and played Settlers of Cataan, Cities and Knights. I ended up winning (barely though; Deanna would have won right after my turn, and Lucas would have won after hers). I wished Deanna had won.

Jake and I now have Dragon Age, New Vegas, and the Force Unleashed 2 on his computer, and I am very excited to eventually play them. I wish I had more free time, although I do like studying.

The masquerade party was very fun last Saturday – I went as Luigi, and I believe I was a huge success. We played Rock Band later in the night, and I did pretty well singing on easy and playing guitar on expert. I like being the center of attention when I am doing something in which I excel (is Rock Band impressive?).

To celebrate Halloween on Sunday, Jake, Deanna, Amy, Amy’s boyfriend, Michael, and I all carved pumpkins at our apartment. I carved out the two theatrical faces, drama and comedy. I think mine was very cool-looking. I don’t normally carve unique pumpkins. Just the regular, generic faces.

Well, I have a lot more to say, but I am getting sleepier all the time. More later!

—–Aaron out!