I wrote my last midterm of the term this morning. Overall it is has been a good midterm season; but this last one was, as we say, sadtimes. I think I'll just scrape enough marks together to pass.

I got two of the four I have written back yesterday. 95% in algorithms was a pleasant surprise, and I did pretty well on OS. It would have been another 95% had the professor not made a mistake. The wording of the question indicated one address translating scheme; but the actual address required another. I should have stuck with the conclusion that all the address were invalid; but I was a coward. I am not happy with the prof's decision to give everyone who took the question wording at face value full marks, and everyone else 50%. He could have been more of a jerk and given everyone else no marks; but it is kind of frustrating to get a lower mark because the creator of the exam messed up.

Can I trade your apology for my marks?

CS 371 midterm was last night, and hence why my complex analysis midterm this morning went so badly. It turns out I really shouldn't have bothered studying for cs371 anyway. The only question I am uncertain about it the one with a matrix reduction; but that is only becuase I can't do arithmetic, and I have yet, in over four years of mathematics at university, row reduce a matrix larger than 2x2 successfully by hand.

Any way, with the end of midterms, I get to turn my attention back to...assignments! I went to bed early last night, as in soon after I got home from my exam and was actually rested this morning.

My stores of homemade soup run low, hopefully I get to make some more this afternoon. I finished the last of the borscht for breakfast this morning. The herbs on the balcony are starting to the die off. Except for the rosemary, despite the first snow today, it still looked cheery and green under the ice. The green tomatoes I brought in have started to ripen on the counter. Today I am going to see if the peppers are fine still green.

I got some disturbing news from my mother. There has been a rather serious scandal in the *grits teeth* lovely small town where I went to high school. It appears health care workers at the local health center were reusing syringes.

http://www.globaltv.com/globaltv/bc/story.html?id=9e332f05-b037-46dd-832b-ef252262c98b

Seeing as I had my wisdom teeth out in two surgeries, one in the Summer of 2004 and the other in Summer of 2005, I guess I get to call the toll-free number and find out if I need to be tested.

This may mean no blood donation tonight.

Halloween party Friday night, trip to Guelph on Saturday....assuming I get OS finished....