Thoughts and Ramblings

Well, once again, a slow week. Saturday and Sunday were marked by not doing much at all. I can’t remember what I did, and there is nothing on my calendar, so that is no help. I think I did my project for Survivable Networks.

I did end up with Erin’s bike lock in my truck though. I noticed it on Saturday when I went to campus. Basically, it fell off her bike when I gave her a ride home on Thursday I was able to give it back to her on Sunday though. Then, on Wednesday morning, she emails me asking if I can bring my lock to school because she left her bike lock in a friend’s jeep. Now, tonight, she told me that she misplaced the key to my lock. Guess I should consider myself lucky that I have a spare one on my key ring. Strange as it may seem, I almost predicted this because I saw the one on my key ring and thought to myself, “wouldn’t it be funny if she tells me she lost the one I gave her?”

Well, we have a project in class now. It is relatively simple. Find the shortest k-disjoint paths in a graph. Well, I got bored a bit on Sunday and didn’t feel like research, so I started coding. I wrote the graph, node, and edge data structures along with all its basics functions. I even went as far as to implement Dijsktra’s algorithm. I had to force myself to stop because I didn’t want to finish the thing before my partner and I met for the first time (tomorrow).

This has been a slow time recently. I just don’t have much to do. During the entire weekend, I really didn’t do much. Friday I went to the Costume party done by Aggie Christian Grads. I had a good time. Got to meet some people there. I guess I will have to go to their bible studies now just so I can get to know them better. Saturday, I went to the Maroon and White game (baseball). It was interesting to see, and then went back to my office to do some research. Sunday, I can’t remember what I did. During this past week, I didn’t do anything out of the ordinary. Just a normal week.

I am slowly getting through classes. Actually class is not really an issue anymore. It has gotten rather easy lately. I did get to thinking that I need to update my degree plan at some point. I looked at what I have left for minimum requirements. I need only 20 more hours, of which only 2 needs to be class. Good grief, I am closer than I thought.

My advisor wants to meet three times a week now. Likely a good idea. I mean, I need one more class, and then research and write my dissertation, and I am out of here!!!! I should get cracking and get it through.