Bummer
What used to be my default icon seems to have disappeared for some bizarre reason which eludes me. I switched it into a non-default icon status since it's inexplicably been replaced with a Yahoo! image, which is quite bizarre as it's hosted on LiveJournal, not Yahoo! Think I'll have to file a support request for that as I rather liked that icon, but ah well, not the end of the world I suppose.
In other news, I was ridiculously tired this afternoon - more so than I thought I was. I knew I was tired as that's why I took a nap, but I didn't realize just how tired I was, I had set my timer for an hour and attempted to sleep for that long but apparently slept right through it and ended up sleeping for four hours and thus waking up at 7:15 rather than 4:15. Which sort of screwed up my studying plans, but oh well - I'm not sure studying would do much good for the pratical part of the midterm anyway, that's the sort of thing that the only kind of studying that is useful is actually creating programs. You don't learn anything about programming by staring at code, you really have to go through the process of making it, screwing up, and having to fix it to really understand how it works. I'm not worrying about being so awake that I won't be able to get to sleep at a decent hour as I'm still relatively tired, usually that's the case when I'm so tired that I end up sleeping a lot longer than I think I would like that.
In the middle of planning my 24th birthday party right now. I think I'll be having that on a nice lucky number this year - October 13th. A bit earlier than my actual birthday, but the weekend before my birthday this year, I'll be going to a Bill Cosby show at the Laxson Auditorium. I could have the party on Sunday I suppose, but I like doing these things on Saturdays so that they can last as late as my friends are willing to stay without having to worry about getting up for classes the next morning, which is of particular concern this semester now that I've got a full schedule of 8 AM classes. Which, combined with going to sleep at around midnight, is why I've been so tired lately. It's worth it though, been getting in some absolutely lovely conversations that I wouldn't give up for the world, and I've got the time to take naps in the afternoon, so it's not really a problem anyway.
Don't think I'll be doing the labor intensive cheesecake that I made last year again this year though. I have a cheesecake pan that I bought and an angel food cake pan that my great aunt gave me so I think I'll be making the latter this year since Angel food cake is still pretty good but far less work than cheesecake. I'm probably less likely to screw it up as well, which is really the main reason for the switch. I wouldn't mind all the work involved with the cheesecake if it was a wonderful cheesecake, but it really wasn't. Who knows though, I may change my mind and decide to go for the full gonzo cheesecake, I'm not going to make the same mistakes I did last year so it'd likely be a better cheesecake than that one was, suppose I haven't really decided yet. Cheesecake is a lot more work to make than Angelfood cake, but I also like it a lot better than Angelfood cake, so I have mixed feelings about this really. Suppose I'll see, mom suggested making a pratice Angelfood cake this weekend, which I'll probably do if I'm up for it, and then if I really miss the cheesecake I'll go for that instead.
In other news, I was ridiculously tired this afternoon - more so than I thought I was. I knew I was tired as that's why I took a nap, but I didn't realize just how tired I was, I had set my timer for an hour and attempted to sleep for that long but apparently slept right through it and ended up sleeping for four hours and thus waking up at 7:15 rather than 4:15. Which sort of screwed up my studying plans, but oh well - I'm not sure studying would do much good for the pratical part of the midterm anyway, that's the sort of thing that the only kind of studying that is useful is actually creating programs. You don't learn anything about programming by staring at code, you really have to go through the process of making it, screwing up, and having to fix it to really understand how it works. I'm not worrying about being so awake that I won't be able to get to sleep at a decent hour as I'm still relatively tired, usually that's the case when I'm so tired that I end up sleeping a lot longer than I think I would like that.
In the middle of planning my 24th birthday party right now. I think I'll be having that on a nice lucky number this year - October 13th. A bit earlier than my actual birthday, but the weekend before my birthday this year, I'll be going to a Bill Cosby show at the Laxson Auditorium. I could have the party on Sunday I suppose, but I like doing these things on Saturdays so that they can last as late as my friends are willing to stay without having to worry about getting up for classes the next morning, which is of particular concern this semester now that I've got a full schedule of 8 AM classes. Which, combined with going to sleep at around midnight, is why I've been so tired lately. It's worth it though, been getting in some absolutely lovely conversations that I wouldn't give up for the world, and I've got the time to take naps in the afternoon, so it's not really a problem anyway.
Don't think I'll be doing the labor intensive cheesecake that I made last year again this year though. I have a cheesecake pan that I bought and an angel food cake pan that my great aunt gave me so I think I'll be making the latter this year since Angel food cake is still pretty good but far less work than cheesecake. I'm probably less likely to screw it up as well, which is really the main reason for the switch. I wouldn't mind all the work involved with the cheesecake if it was a wonderful cheesecake, but it really wasn't. Who knows though, I may change my mind and decide to go for the full gonzo cheesecake, I'm not going to make the same mistakes I did last year so it'd likely be a better cheesecake than that one was, suppose I haven't really decided yet. Cheesecake is a lot more work to make than Angelfood cake, but I also like it a lot better than Angelfood cake, so I have mixed feelings about this really. Suppose I'll see, mom suggested making a pratice Angelfood cake this weekend, which I'll probably do if I'm up for it, and then if I really miss the cheesecake I'll go for that instead.