I got a call from a classmate at about 9 am yesterday morning. He was asking whether I wanted ot head to the school to study for an exam we owuld have later that day. I agreed because the previous day’s round of studying was spiked with several hours of nap time at various intervals, making my time spent at home a bit less effective than it could have been. A group of us ended up in the library staring at our textbooks for most of the day. A lot of this time was spent in despair only because the material was so arcane that our prospects for a good mark dropped like an exponential function exp(-at)*u(t).

Oh fuck, I must be shot.

I do believe I was the most giggly out of the group…and it was having an effect on the rest. Ah, whatever. We were all going to do poorly anyway. As much as I reread a particular section of the reading material, it just wasn’t clicking for me. I wasn’t absorbing it. I wasn’t comprehending it. It just wasn’t sinking in. Damn you, Hilbert and your bloody functions! Damn you, Single Side Band! You bring wonderful things like media signals over the airwaves, but why must you be so difficult??? I ended up giving up totally and decided to just memorize questions from previous exams.

Oh, and that paid off. The first question on the exam was a replica of one that I studied meticulously from a previous exam, just with different numbers. So, hey, if anything I was able to get at least a quarter of the marks on the exam. When you’re living in mediocrity, you have to take what you can get.
As soon as the exam finished, I had to run off to another building for my Sociology class. We studied were continuing our talk on deviance. Everyone’s a deviant. Some people take pride in being deviant. It’s an amsuing talk. It’s making me think that I might want to take a class on criminology next term when I have hell of a lot for electives. And when I say “hell of a lot”, I really mean 1 more. Listen, 2 free electives is a freaking luxury in Engineering.

I left class at about 9:30 pm and headed off to the plaza for some food and decided on Phat Cat. I tell you, Phat Cat has *the best* fish and chips in all of KW. Seriously. The slab of fish that they give is gigantic. As well, the guy is really generous with his fries. It’s awesome. Anyway, on the way there I took a look up at the moon and realized that the lunar eclipse was well underway. I was witness to a very strange phenomenon. I’m not necessarily talking about the eclipse of the moon, although, that was really fun to watch too. As I walked home, I spotted numerous groups of students just standing outside gazing at the night sky. For this one night, students turned into astronomers as they explained the whole eclipse phenomenon. Some used their bodies and the bodies of their friends to explain. Some just twirled their fingers while trying to make their point. Other groups just found it a good time to be socializing with people out in the open. I swear, I smelled people smoking up at various locations. There were people yelling to others who seemed to be leaving the groups, “You can’t leave now! It’s almost done!” Some people were trying to take pictures, although, I’m not sure pictures would turn out. Ultimately, I found it more interesting to watch the people instead of the moon.

Actually, walking home, the moon was largely at my back. I found myself turning around every now and then though to see its progress. I saw a few shooting stars as well. The night sky was great to watch, although I really had to watch where I was walking. I walked into and tripped over several curbs last night. I don’t think anyone was watching me anyway.

Last night was good. Very good. Now, I must get back to studying for another exam…but not before I shower and get some food into me.