It's amazing how just one short weekend can set you back so far in school/work. I think it's a combination of not working on homework and work projects for 3 days, plus falling behind on sleep due to 2 15 hour drives. At any rate, one of my professors on Tuesday asked me how I was doing (since I got to the classroom a few minutes early and he likes to chit-chat with the early birds), and I replied that I was tired. He didn't think I should be tired because "you got an extra hour of sleep, didn't you?" Ha. Ha. Very funny. Although, I do remember being glad to notice that instead of arriving home at 3am last Sunday night/Monday morning, my computer said it was "only" 2am. And I'm only just now recovering. Maybe I'm too old to go to school anymore if it takes me a week to recover from one night of 5 hours sleep. :)
Anyway, needless to say, I spent most of the week struggling to catch up with school projects and grading other people's projects and exams. And trying to decide whether we could make it to Texas for my grandma's funeral. It was a tough decision, but I finally decided that 2 more 18 hour trips and 2 more days of not being able to work on my many projects would just be too much. Hopefully Grandma understands.
Still not caught up, though I made some good progress yesterday. My project due on Tuesday is done (or rather, as done as I would like to make it), and the one due tomorrow I will have to start tomorrow, and use up three of my "free" late days to hopefully finish on Thursday. Bleh. Only five more weeks of classes. At least the projects are interesting, even if they take a long time to do. The one due tomorrow is a statistical parser, meaning it will use statistics to decide how to parse a sentence, where the noun phrases are and how they combine with verb phrases and lots of other parts of speech that I'm not even sure I see the difference. The next one will be a machine translation system (translating sentences from one language to another)....
Well that's the long way of saying that what we did this week was school work. :) There was some other stuff in there too I think. Mutual of course. It was a very loud activity, and not just because we were playing games. The loudest girls were the ones who were waiting for their turn. Ah well. At least they had fun.
We watched "Arsenic and Old Lace" on Halloween...in the background of doing homework of course. :) And Friday night was the ward carnival; I was in charge of the pie eating contest, which I'm glad it turned out alright in the end because it was a bit stressful putting it on. The ward does the pie eating contest traditionally in pairs...blind fold one person, who stands behind the person eating the pie, and give the blind folded person a spoon to feed their partner. It was very messy, but it looked like people had fun. I was glad they all knew the rules, because I didn't know the rules until I watched the event - which was part of my worry about the activity. :)
And we saw Jon and Faith briefly Saturday night, since they were in town for a wedding. We went to the reception and played Fluxx. The best way to enjoy wedding receptions, in my opinion - bring a game to play. :)
Anyway, hope you all are doing well. I can't wait for Christmas break and next semester!
-Becca and Wayne
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