Deja Vu All Over Again

Hurricane Ivan, aiming for the gulf coast at 7:15 this evening


OK, no sooner had the mess from Frances cleared up than Ivan hits. Today they announced that classes have been cancelled starting tomorrow at noon, and all day Friday. And it hasn't even started raining yet.

Going all the way back to kindergarten, I don't recall school ever being rained out. Now it's happened twice within a week, and the second time without a drop of water falling.

At any rate, I had my first exam of the semester today, in thermodynamics. It was easy, and I'm sure I made an A unless I made some really stupid mistake. I also picked up a take-home exam for abstract algebra, which is due in Friday, come hell or high water. The latter being somewhat more likely.

In classical mechanics I have a homework set due Friday (well, maybe) that I've just started on. There's also a Maple-based project due Monday that I haven't started. All this sounds like I've been slacking, but I haven't been. At least, not as badly as it sounds. I spend several hours a day doing homework or studying, but the workload is really high with all these courses. Already this week I've had to turn in a gigantic abstract algebra set and a thermo set, in addition to studying for the thermo exam.

For months now I've been in the process of selling off some of my more expensive and less-used camera equipment. Lately I've been toying with the idea of selling all the rest of my 35mm SLR (Canon EOS) gear. I haven't really been using it, and can probably use the money for other things. Instead, I'd get a little digicam that I could carry around all over the place. I think it would be fun. I'd probably keep my Pentax 67 medium format system because I couldn't get very much for it anyway, and when you really want quality you can't beat those giant negatives or slides.

I've just about decided to do it.