Hmm… You may be wondering what happened since my last chronicle over a month ago. The short answer: nothing. The true answer: as much as happened in the entire previous 18 years of my life. Thus the multiple entries I’m going to put in in order to catch up. But its good stuff: bunnies, Italians, and starvation are some of the exciting themes you have to look forward to…

Peering back into the dark past of one month ago, I see shadowy spectres moving about in the thick mist of my sleep starved brain’s memories. These figures want to kill me; look out! They want to kill you too. What are these horrible apparitions? Ghosts? Zombies? Tax collectors? No my friend, think along more fearful lines: the murderous beasts are none other than … bunnies. Now that I have your attention, and respect, let me warn the reader with a weak stomach to consider skipping the following section. Bunnies may not have preyed upon me, but others were not so lucky…

What bunnies am I speaking of, you want to know? The bunnies of CS108, the class of infamy. The last assignment is called “Bunny World.” It involves working on a team to program a big game editor/game player with a “bunny” theme. It sounds innocent enough, but takes about 50 casualties each time the class is offered. I actually don’t want to go into too many gory details about my own experience, but suffice to say that I slept for a total of 4 hours over the course of the entire last week before bunny world was due. After 44 consecutive waking hours, I was programming next to my group members the last day, and (they tell me this, I do not remember) I fell asleep. Sleep had been foreign to me for 2 full days, and even then I had only taken a 2 hour nap after 2 more all nighters. Well, suddenly, there I was, asleep, without any decision to be in such a state on my part. Don’t ask how this is possible, I have no idea. Oh - I also only ate one real meal the entire last week, other than that, I was brought a Snickers bar and cookies. So, I nearly died of exhaustion and starvation, but we triumphed, with one of the highest grades ever.

There was some fervor over this “dragon drop” feature, so I spent hours adding a button that would insert a frightening dragon whenever clicked, and then they tell me it’s “drag ‘n drop.” Geez.

This class yielded my first, and possibly my last A+. Not because I don’t think I could excel to that level again, but because those +’s and -’s are very unasthetic on the grade sheet, and I’m going to shoot for straight letter grades from now on.

Following the experience, I slept for 19 hours in a row. Soon after, I was studying at Yeva’s, fell asleep, and woke up in delirious state, dreadfully concerned about whether “it” could be undone, did “undo” work with “it”? I haven’t figured out what “it” was…

Quote of the moment:

Whoa, did you notice “1999″ has three nines in a row?

Next edition to be up soon. (Today)