Question: Why is it only Wednesday?

Answer: Because Wednesday comes after Tuesday.

I woke up this morning thinking it was Friday and got all excited. Then I realized it was Wednesday and got depressed. It has nothing to do with the fact that Friday is the start of the weekend. It is entirely because today I had a math exam and on Friday I get to work on an experiment for cognitive science. Clearly the experiment is cooler.
I hope the math exam went okay. I spent a lot of time on it, so hopefully my tedious calculations and constant rechecking worked out well.

The University approved a linguistics major (B.A. only). Since I'm already going for cognitive science (B.S.) and am going to be doing the 3 Foreign Language major (B.A.) I figured I might as well do the linguistics major too. My cognitive science concentration is in linguistics anyway, so it works out perfectly. Of course, I was already planning on this, but it happened at just the right time. Now after this semester I can add the majors I (also) want to earn a degree in.

Happily, I got to talk to my friend Michelle about Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and all the awesomeness in between (via email). Convincing someone to watch Lord of the Rings is one of the greatest experiences you could ever have. Seriously, try it sometime.


I have to say that this is one of the best quotes from the entire trilogy that means so much, not just within the context of the trilogy but to everyone:
Frodo: I can't do this, Sam.
Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?
Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.

I cannot express how much I love that quote. (It's from The Two Towers by the way.)
There are some things that everyone should read at least once within their lifetime (even the illiterate- have someone read it to you). The Lord of the Rings is one of them. I would suggest reading The Hobbit too, but there is a prologue in The Lord of the Rings that summarizes The Hobbit to place the story in context.

I just realized that it is 9:26 already. I was hoping to be in bed by 10:00. I don't think that's going to happen tonight. The caffeine crash is starting to take effect now. I'm surprised since I had a lot today.

As a note: I just can't take any historical figure with the name Jean-Baptiste seriously. I don't know why, but I just can't.