So where was I?

I believe we left off a week ago, when I had just returned from lab. This seems to be a good time for me to update - at least, it is a better time than most other times. If that sounds stressimistic (I hereby stamp my coin flag on that term) it is because today has been an unsettling mix of highs, lows and things to get done but in the larger picture, I have had a pretty enjoyable past few days. My weekends are back and, though I unfailingly arrive at Monday wishing I had spent 1000 hours studying over the course of Saturday and Sunday, I have to admit that I am glad for the relaxation.

Melisa and I met my parents for dinner at the Siam Orchid in Concord on Saturday night and for dessert, my mom gave me a bunch of tulips and two bags of bark mulch so I spent an hour on Sunday weeding and tilling our raised beds, then planting bulbs and tucking them in for winter. I also managed to hang out with "Epic" Eric Stone, who will be leaving us soon.

We took a physics test on Monday and we got the grades back today. That was the low part. I am first and foremost angry at myself for making yet another minor and (hindsight: on) avoidable error but I have to say that this time around, I am irritated that my grade went from 100 to 85 for a factor of two. (I said that a quantity would double when I should have realized that it would quadruple). That's it, though. It's over and in the books so I am not going to say more about it here.

We don't have classes tomorrow and I hope you'll believe me that I look forward to doing just as much work as my little brain and body can handle, which is a lot. Realistically, the day will run out of hours before I run out of motivation (and certainly before I run out of things to do) but I have a really good chance to go into Thursday able to concentrate on the growing pile of AGU-related tasks.

Why press myself so hard? The Funky Flunkies are going to do Thriller at the Pub on Friday (the 13th, of course) and I can guarantee that it will be legit.