belle has gone down hard twice in the last three days. luckily i was able to rescitate her using the remote power control, but it appears as if she has some filesystem corruption. i’m not sure what or whom, but certain operations cause the home directory to be mounted read-only (to avoid further damage). tonight i’m going to have to attempt a repair, and if that is unsuccessful, reformat and restore from backup. i’m dissapointed in myself; she should be using a journalling filesystem and she’s not.

the condo becomes mine next week

Experience is the worst teacher. It always gives the test first and the instruction afterward.

it is a step up from the last class, but i haven’t reached that 4.0 yet.

tomorrow i exchange all my money for a piece of paper and 1/5 of a little place. here’s hoping its everything i need and want.

Zack and I just had a stimulating conversation over email and I have to admit, he is quite a bit more logical than I. I realized that this was happening when he beat me in some strategy board game a few years ago. I don’t have the discipline to stay the course and quickly become overconfident. Sometimes I feel like such a poor student. Don told me that good students take the wrong paths and I can’t help but feel like I am constantly doing so. I hope that he is correct and that is an indication of a good student but I cannot help but wonder. Anyway, the computer spit this quote at me and I figured it was apt timing: