The first assignment was involved and I’m sure the second will be even more. But I am enjoying myself. My room and desk is still not perfect but I hope to get some serious organization in next week during my awesome company gifted vacation. I miss my sweet Eriko.

I feel much better today! On Saturday I wrote Brian, a future doctor, an email lamenting about how my recovery rate had dropped to 0. Waking up on Sunday, however, I felt that the golf ball in my throat had definitely shrunk by a sizable portion, perhaps even 50%. Again today I believe I have experienced a 50% reduction. I have now sent all the paperwork necessary for my GNM enrollment at UW. Now I just need to do a bang up job on my homework. ;P

I am watching what seems to be a pretty good movie, pausing it on occassion to work a problem or two from my CS homework. I’m making a first pass of the easier problems, hopefully I will be able to formulate concrete answers for all of them. That leaves two nastier ones for tomorrow.. ;P Stomach feels better, throat is slowly improving. Eriko will visit me in August! (exact plans still pending)

and you hear something burst … diarrhea .. bump bump .. diarrhea .. ;P Whatever is kicking around in my stomach better figure itself out, because I’m getting real sick and tired of this routine. =) Eriko might be going through something similiar, I pray it is not as rough as mine. On a more positive note, no SARS! And I’m feeling better. My throat is still L A M E – but I have regained quite a bit of energy. After lots of algebraic hassle, I have completed question #4 (1 for 6) of my Algorithms homework. I was determined and it paid off.

Well, today has not been very pleasant. What a cruel April Fool’s joke the world played on me! I woke up early this morning, naturally, (about 7) and was excited to get a jump on work. I noticed I felt a little strange and after I arrived at work I was freeeezing. I bundled up and drank tea; eventually Brian IM’d me and told me to go home so as not to affect my co-workers. I did so, and did some work from home. I wasn’t nearly that effective and ended up sleeping lots. So hear I am now, feeling strange, but perhaps my fever is gone. I will take some Theraflu and then hit the sack. Here’s hoping this joke ends at midnight. ;P

I awoke close to 9 o’clock after having decided to just wake up naturally – tomorrow will be more of the same. ;P Work was relatively lax today as I mainly caught up on email – a lot of discussions in the last week. I had my first session of Applied Algorithms today; I was a liitle nervous buying books and finding my way around UW – but everything went smoothly. =)Spent some time playing with snoopy, but I’m not sure what we accomplished. I think it is time for bed – typing on marbles’ Dvorak keyboard tests my patience and tires me out. ZZZzzzz