I’m stopping on my current programming assignment. I keep getting a NullPointerException and I am fed up with getting no where. I really need to do well on my final, so this is being put on the back burner until Monday when I can try talking to another instructor or TA.

Holy crap. Lightning just struck really close. The power went out and I felt vibrations. Gotta go check to make sure nothing is burned in the neighborhood.

Missing: One Sun. If seen, please return.

It has been so overcast and rainy lately that I haven’t seen too much of the sun lately. I am starting to miss it. Strange.

Well, I finished and submitted two of the three programs due. One was due today, the other is due Monday night. The one my partner (Hi Anne) and I worked on was the one due tonight. All of the variables are Simpsons/cookie themed. The other one I’m not even sure if I did it correctly, but it computes and returns the correct data. Now I have an alternate assignment that I am still working on. I’m still getting that flecking array out of bounds error. I know what is going on, but I’m just stuck trying to figure out how to fix it. At least it isn’t due until Monday night as well.

Oh and I might be getting sick. My throat is sore and I am starting to feel congested. This is on top of whatever stomach bug I have been suffering from. So not cool. Especially just before the end of the semester.

Stress, stress, stress. If stress is bad for your health, I’m probably knocking on death’s door. I’ve been a wreck trying to make sure I pass one class (pass requiring a C+) and trying to make sure the school has their ducks in a row so that I graduate without any problems. I am just tired.

My partner and I figured out our lab program, but we both have two other programs to write for the same class. We finished our networking client/server program. I got a 100.

I was looking at my grade for CS and I realized that 43% of our grade isn’t factored in. 2% is due Friday night, that’s done though.10% is due on Monday night, that I am stressing about. 3% is lab related. 20% is related to the final exam on Wednsday. Another 5% hasn’t been graded yet. Ahhhhh. Madness, all madness.

The program I am working on is stressing me out because I know my algorithm is correct (I talked to one of my professors), so it is my implementation. The TA has mentioned that I can come to him for help, but I want to try and figure this out for myself. I may end up going to him or the tutoring center to figure my problem out. It is just an out of bounds error. Of course it is probably one of the most useless error messages ever invented. /sigh

OK, enough fussing about my problems. I’m going back to this program.

This is a pretty hectic month for me. Obviously. I haven’t been too talkative thanks to a ton of work.

I just submitted my final programming assignment for networking. All that I have in there is possibly a busy work homework assignment and the final exam. In CS I have three programming assignments to go. Stressful? Probably. They are due in just over a week.

I am going to allow myself a tiny little break (an hour to relax) and then I will get started. Tomorrow I am heading to my parents and then to my aunt’s for a birthday party for my cousin. I had scheduled tomorrow in, so I am actually a little ahead of schedule. I wasn’t going to start working on my other programs until Sunday.

Tonight/tomorrow the last HP book comes out. There is a bit of dread in the air. For some it is not knowing what will happen, for others it is knowing that this is it. There are no more books. Once the last movie is made, I’m sure people will be really upset. I’m OK. Of everything about Harry Potter, the one thing I enjoyed the most was that it got so many people reading and thinking creatively. I just hope that can continue.

I haven’t looked it up, but I am wondering if it is good luck to have bird poop land on your laptop screen? Just a tiny little dot about the size of a ball point pen tip got on, but I wonder if the luck thing would still work. Don’t worry, I was able to safely get it off of the screen.

So I mentioned to Josh that I might want to buy a wii. He said maybe in September. You see, the cost of a wii is almost the same as a month and a half’s cost for me to drive to school and eat lunch on campus one day a week of that month and a half. Too darn expensive.

I haven’t been able to ride the bus this semester because of the times for my classes suck. Hopefully this will be the last semester. So long as a I pass. Eek.

Dear Mr. President,
There are two instances of the letter r in the word secretary. They are not silent in either instance. Please remember this when you are trying to use the word in your speeches.

Thank you,
Me

So I 1) got my exam grade back and 2) discovered only seven people have gotten their program three grade so far. That makes me feel better.

I really need to get this program working. I’ve got my disjoint set class setup and I have a general idea for the rest of it. I need to redo my heapsort. I broke mine from a previous assignment. Oops.

I’ve also entered the realm of over dorkiness. I recorded myself on my voice recorder so that I can listen to myself as I read the things I need to study for my exam in networking. Don’t knock it, I have an A in there and would like to keep my grade up there in case anything goes bad from here! Besides it took me a total of thirty minutes to do it. I did it between switching laundry loads.

So, my lab partner emailed me back and she got an increase in her grade for program 2 as well. So, I’m stuck waiting. I hate when they do that. I hope it goes up today. If not, I don’t have time to worry about it. I have an exam tomrrow and a program due on Friday. I don’t have time to worry!

I am obsessively checking my grade for my computer science program three. Why? Because others have gotten theirs, but I haven’t. The weird thing is that my grade for my second program went up three points while other’s haven’t. I am hoping that means that my grade was entered in the wrong place in the system. I will take that grade. My implementation write up was weak, I know that. I was too frustrated at not being able to figure out my original implementation idea that I couldn’t write much.

Hey Kris and Amy… from what I overhead today some girl saying, you have already started the new year…

“It’s January in Australia because it’s snowing there. That means they’re six months ahead.”

Wow. Somehow, according to this girl, Australia and its inhabitants have leaped through time six months.

My first thought when I realized she was serious… “What the hell is she doing in the Engineering building?” Of course then I remembered that they have freshman classes in the large lecture halls because they can throw more people in them.

/sigh. I fear for our future. I really do.