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A few days ago, there was snow at the end of the extended weather forecast. Now, there's not. This makes me very sad.

Meanwhile, it's a cool forty-something degrees outside and raining. I haven't seen the sun in a little less than a week, and according to the forecast, I won't see the sun for another little-less-than-a-week. Which is nice, as I was getting tired of seeing sun all the time.

My windows are slightly foggy, so hooray for chilly weather.

It's definitely autumn here, and the trees seem to have gotten the memo, as their leaves have largely turned brilliant reds and yellows and started to fall, covering the streets, sidewalks, and parked cars with collages of October color. There are some particularly amazing colors on the trees on the CMU campus in front of Warner Hall. I'd take my camera up there for some pictures, but it's raining, and I don't want to risk damaging my camera.

As the leaves are changing color, the students are becoming more stressed while the second half of the semester begins. In my classes, we are changing topics rather severely, so it's almost like starting them over with different material but still having to remember the old stuff.

My VLSI CAD exam last week went well, as I got a 98 on it. I was hoping for a 100, but I guess I didn't quite know what I was blathering on one of the problems. My Computer Security exam is today at 4:30, and I'm not expecting my grade to be quite so high as a 98, but it shouldn't be terribly low, either. I'm struggling with the formal logic verification for secure authorization crap we learned, like, the first two weeks of class. Everything after that is peachy keen, though.

Eh.

I don't know what happened to the haunted hay ride, but I suppose it was cancelled because of the rain. Perhaps Katy found something out and just didn't tell me. At any rate, I totally forgot about it over the weekend and just remembered it this morning.

This is the first on my Google quote of the day list: "The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated." -- Oscar Wilde.

I like that quote in what is probably an inappropriately perverse manner.

Back to studying...