2520

I will admit that this has been a less-than fantastic week. I have been sick, which has been sort of trickling into the rest of my life for how things are going. I'm still really excited about my classes (well, except Chem lab, which was kind of exhausting yesterday) but I am so energy-deprived right now that getting through assignments at all has been difficult, so I've been making silly mistakes everywhere. And that's just frustrating.

On a happier note, my first-year advisor, Prof. Benjamin, was on the Colbert Report last night. If you don't watch the show, you should look up the episode on www.colbertnation.com and go watch it. Prof. Benjamin is a cool, cool guy. A good chunk of the student population of Mudd gathered in the LAC yesterday at 11 PM to watch the show, and much fun was had. Also, I showed some Doctor Who. Sadly, the combination of those two events, a pounding headache and CS homework, I missed Obama's State of the Union. So that was unfortunate. Oh well.

I'm excited for tomorrow. I have a mostly free afternoon and I intend to sleep off this illness during it. I'm hopefully going to do an audition Saturday for a cool acting thing occurring in conjunction with the Queer Resource Center here, so that should be fun. Oh! And there should be ITR Games this week! That will be nice. We'll see if I'm awake.

I had my first active day of Team Sports today. It's amazing...it's like a textbook example of a high-school PE class except for 94.4% of the students are Mudders, so we all are equally teased by our coach, not just some subset of nerdiness. And it sounds like something you'd theoretically avoid, but it's so much fun to do the whole fail-at-athleticism thing in good company with friendly banter and teasing all around.

Y'all are awesome. Keep it up.