catching up
long time since i blogged. the singular reason being morrowind. up until i left for home on wednesday, all i've done since i last blogged is play morrowind. it's funny because this game has been out for a long time. i played it addictively when it first came out on a cracked version i downloaded off of direct connect. but the gaming industry powers that be released a new, game of the year edition with the original game and 2 expansions all for the low low price of 29.99. that ain't bad at all. i bought morrowind with the newest castlevania, PS2's lament of innocence (MSRP 49.99). it's 3d, but it's not terrible. it's actually pretty good. i played that until i died and lost a few minutes of play. that always bothers me, so i installed morrowind and haven't looked at castlevania since. i'll get to it when i get to it.

there are a bunch of games don has that i've been meaning to play. mario sunshine. super smash bros melee. i played melee for a little bit, but playing by oneself in one's room doesn't have the same feel as 4 people playing the older one on n64.

on that note, i whalloped garrett in SSB for n64. he's all right, but he's not a challenge by any means. i won twenty bucks off him in the process. should i feel bad about that? we moved steiner's n64 down to the common room (where it belongs) for the duel, and i'm glad, because we've had a few 4 player melees since then. n64 really feels like the glory days, with smash, goldeneye, and mario tennis.

what else before thanksgiving that's worth recounting?

god, the tuesday before was incredibly bad. i did the written section of my data structures homework, and didn't even try for the programming. that's a 15/25, which really isn't terrible. but i'm sure i could have done the coding if i'd given myself just a few hours. and the signals... i started it with steiner the night before, realized i must be doing something wrong, and put it off for later so i could ask scott about it. that's when i started working on my data structures, and then next thing i know, it's 9:30 in the morning, and jon's asking me if i want him to hand my homework in for me. i did part of 2 problems, out of the 7, and i figured it's not even worth it. eh, that's the 3rd problem set i missed. that's starting to look bad. luckily homework is never worth much... so i check the rubric on the website, and it's worth 30%. 30%!!!! last semester, in signals and systems I, the homework was worth 10%, with 12 problem sets, and the worst 2 dropped. now each homework is worth 3.75% of our grade. that is ridiculous! that's also 11.25% of my grade that i've automatically lost. whoa. ah well, what's done is done. i can't do anything about it now. guess i'll have to pull off a miracle final. not to mention doing the last problem set.

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