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Well, I don’t feel much like blogging tonight, but that last post was depressing so I am going to update.

Thanksgiving was nice enough. Kevin and I drove down to San Diego to meet my family. We stayed in a beach house and had Thanksgiving at my sister’s in-laws. It all would have been perfect, except by Satuday I was in bed with a fever, so like Calvin in Calvin and Hobbes, I was quite upset at having to take a sick day on a vacation day. I’m feeling a little better now though, especially since I slept all day today as well.

I figured out my schedule last night, but what I didn’t realize was that registration starts tomorrow, not today, so I felt silly at the registrar’s office a little earlier.

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What a day :(

First, I was up until 5a with my senior art project…the entire thing was due today, and I still had to write the paper. Then I had to go through 2.5 hours of critiques with the faculty and everyone in my class, and I was first to go. I don’t think I did that well because I was first, everyone was serious, and even though I knew what I was going to say, I clenched at the last minute. So now I’m guessing there goes my chances at Art 193 next semester.

Then I’ve been working on this monster number theory set from hell tonight with Kristen online, resolved to be up all night for the second time in a row, when I hear some chewing in my closet. So I turn on the lights, and I think I hear some scurrying, so I called the RA, but the RAs were all out. So then I took a broom and poked my shoes, and a mouse ran right towards me, causing me to stand on a chair until the RA came back from her meeting. Maintenance is going to deal with it tomorrow though, since it’s after-hours.

Thanksgiving is in 2 days…it’ll all be over soon.

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Ick. The new AT&T logo is up. It looks like a hollowed-out sugar sphere. The font is horrible–waay too much kerning and doesn’t contrast or space well with the logo. There’s also no sense of Robin William’s elements of design–repetition, alignment, contrast, and proximity. The ball is not in a close enough proximity with the AT&T, and the font does not bother to make use of white space and already looks dated. This does not bode well for the company.

This is a case of a classic image in the media gone wrong. Like the McDonald’s arches, the FedEx arrow, or more recently Google logo, these are timeless logos that the public knows and is used to. Perhaps AT&T should have invested not in a new logo, but a different commercial campagin.

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dude, I want one.

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So apparently someone did another Yahoo search for “thai girl jpegs” which turned up my blog thanks to the Halloween post.

Mr Internet Surfer (I assume you’re a man given the content of what you’re searching for), I can assure you that there are no thai girl pictures of any sort on my blog. You might do better at this site or if you’re the porn-loving type, I umm…hmm. Well, it shouldn’t be that hard to find, given all the catagories of pornography out there. Best of luck with that.

And I certainly do not rent out thai girl slaves as a special service. For that you might want to try the Asian Black Market or something.

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A recent study shows that a bored monkey makes a stupid monkey.

For some reason I find this highly amusing, mostly from the spirit of the research and the headline of the article. In any event, I think that’s a really interesting study, to show how brain activity is affected by one’s environment. I feel sorry for the bored stupid monkey in the bare minimum catagory though….imagine sitting there for a month in the cage. Maybe that explains why the pair of mice I owned were so stupid….all they did was play in their cage and eat food.

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Deepinder: I’m just freaking out about my speech that I have to give on Thursday because I have no idea what to talk about! The topic is so vague.
Talya: Uggh. I have to give a talk too…if we were closer, I would suggest reciting to each other.
Deepinder lol I haven’t written mine yet. But the topic is “seventeen / 17″ … that’s it.
Talya: Huhh.
Deepinder Just the number
Talya: What’s the talk about?
Deepinder Anything to do with it … a lot of people are talking about life at 17 …. we can’t do lists, that’s all. It’s just an inclass speech for English. Each book we study, 20% is our speech, on a topic he gives us … for Death of a Salesman, he gave us “The Working World” …. now we’re doing Catcher in the Rye, our topic is “17″. We’re just not allowed to mention the book we’re acutally reading. Any ideas?
Talya: You’re talking to a math major. So I think, 17 is a prime number after 13, congruent to 1 mod 4…so you can write 17 as a product of two squares. So that might be a good opening there :P
Deepinder: Haha, as interesting as that is to me, I’ll have half the class throwing stuff at me, the other half already asleep :P

[later]
Deepinder: I wish I could help brainstorm for your hour long thingy…err…mention the word math in there somewhere? it might perk up your audience O.o
Talya: Hehe, probably a good idea. Don’t worry, this talk is informal, so I’ll be okay.
Deepinder lol oooh informal, that means you can insult your audience. That’ll take up 15 minutes I’m sure!

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Here is another reason why our school is not technically inclined. We had a lockdown drill today, and as part of notification, aside from having a volunteer run around campus blowing a foghorn which made me think at first that there was an obnoxious football fan running around campus as opposed to a dangerous sniper, we got an emergency email sent across campus. This email not only crashed the Scripps server, but the email read:

THIS IS A DRILL THIS IS A DRILL THIS IS A DRILL

THE ALL-CAMPUS LOCKDOWN DRILL BEGINS NOW! STUDENTS,

FACULTY, STAFF, VISITORS: LOCKDOWN IMMEDIATELY!

THE ALL-CAMPUS LOCKDOWN DRILL BEGINS NOW! STUDENTS,

FACULTY, STAFF & VISITORS: LOCKDOWN IMMEDIATELY!

THE DRILL CONCLUDES 10 MINUTES AFTER YOU RECEIVE THIS

EMAIL – I.E. (GIVE TIME)

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grrr…..give me a problem set over a paper any day. I hate writing, and there’s been too much of it these past few weeks, quite frankly…

Aside from that, I had a nice weekend. Friday night was a crash night, and Kevin and I watched Terminator and Terminator II (quite a marathon). Speaking of which, I was relieved about the outcome of the November elections in California. Our great governer of California said on the matter: “If I was to make another Terminator movie, I would tell Terminator to travel back in time to tell Arnold not to have another special election.” I love our governator for all the wrong reasons…

What else…dinner at Walter’s with Caitlin was really fun, as was gaming afterwards with Betty, Chris, and Kevin. We were playing ImaginIFF…
^TM, and we put Stephen King, Stephen Speilberg, and Stephen Hawking on the board. Well, one of the questions was, “ImaginIFF^TM Stephen Speilberg was an author. Would he be… (a) Stephen King, (b) Stephen Hawking,….” and well, we lost it. Good times.

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Talya [before a test]: I need your smartness and attitude to take this test, but you’re too blitzed to want to provide it.
Priya: Where’s Chris when you need him? We can both cyphon his endorphons and brains.