Busy Last Week, Busier This Week
Last week included the most interesting prank I've seen in my three years at Carleton: a car made to look as though it had plowed into the ground after falling four storeys. The effect was really good, I was fooled at first. The car was actually cut in half during frosh week. The guy who owns it lives in attached housing and is entitled to a parking spot for his car, only he doesn't have a car; he has half of one. People's reactions could not have been better, especially seeing as it was on the day high school students came to see the campus.

Yesterday marked the last lab and last test of the school year. Exams are quickly approaching. The day every aspect of the semester is over is the day I shall be happy.

Yesterday, I also learned an important lesson. After taking down a full Guinness in haste, never, ever sprint for the train. It left me feeling very sick, unable to breathe. Physical activity is fine with other beers, just not Guinness.

Finally, yesterday saw me banned from irc.gimp.org from six of my shell accounts. All I did was push for a reason why it makes sense to have all the icon depth/size resources in one file, as in Microsoft Windows. Apparently it is forbidden to disagree with a man named Yosh. For a while, I felt like the driver of this particular late-model white Civic...