number crunching!

I don’t intend to sing my own praise…well…maybe I mean to show off a little bit…but I’m getting decent at Cadence. (That’s the software tool I’ve been working with). I don’t detest it as much now. I successfully completed my part of the project 48 hours before the deadline and am quite pleased and smug with myself. DLP is giving me ulcers though…she’s nowhere near completion of her half of the project and doesn’t seem too driven to complete it by tomorrow either. And I am in absolutely NO position to help her coz I have a mid term on Monday. All the same, I told her to fire all the output data files at me so I can sit and compute the values we need to fill in the 3 page excel spec sheet. That’s not as easy as it sounds though…I’ll have to manually (well, I’ll be using a scientific calculator…but that IS manual!) calculate around 150 values and then double-check ‘em! That’s gonna cost me at least 2 hours! Both of us have another mid term on Thursday and she is keener on preparing for that. Bullshit! I kinda yelled at her today coz I don’t like it when people (1) behave slack and (2) try to pitch the responsibility on me. She told me that the reason why ‘WE’ were lagging was coz we weren’t working as a team. She has some nerve! Whatever happened to the gratitude I ought to have for doing her job? Anyhoo…
I HAVE to do exceptionally well on one of my mid terms. I have to do exceptionally well on ALL my mid terms but I MUST do exceptionally well on one particular mid term. The course of the mid term in discussion is being taught by our department chair and if I do well, I shall be bestowed with the opportunity of being a research assistant next term.
The temperature was about 40 today...it was pouring and there were a few moments when I thought I would pass out. All I had on was a sweatshirt (I didn’t wear a Tee underneath coz I was supposed to do the laundry yesterday.) and jeans. I didn’t carry my slicker/umbrella coz I didn’t expect the drizzle to turn into a downpour. The chill got into under clothes like a nymphomaniac who hasn’t had a girlfriend for a century…ummm…I don’t know what the male equivalent of a nymph is…but you get the point!! That was MY foolishness…I have no one to hold responsible…not even nature!
Whoa! Lookie at the time…its past 1. I was up at 7am today so I guess I’ll turn in now.