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October 31, 2005

Tore open the package, it was an empty box, no meaning to me, just an empty box. Sender was a woman. She said she's sending me everything I never gave her before. She said, "Fill it up and send it back." So I sent her back an empty box. A big mistake, sent back an empty box. Half in the shadows, half in the husky moonlight, and half insane just a sound in the night. I crossed into a valley, a valley so dark that when I look back I can't see where I began. I can't see my hands, I don't even know if my eyes are open. In the morning I was by the sea and I swam out as far as I could swim, until I was too tired to swim anymore. Then I floated and tried to get by strength back. Then an empty box came floatin' by, an empty box and I crawled inside. Half in the shadows, half in the husky moonlight, and half insane just a sound in the night.

Time flies when... well... pretty much all the time these days.

I'm done with midterms for the semester which leaves me with (consults imaginary reference) 6 more exams between now and May. These tests went pretty well. I left myself plenty of time to study for them, so the whole ordeal was relatively low-stress.

My Lines, Fields, and Waves class is particularly cool, mathematical, and yet chock-full of real world examples. It should lead well into my Antenna Analysis course next semester, which I'm looking forward to. Meanwhile, Comm Systems leaves something to be desired as the antithesis of Random Processes, which I took last spring. Where RP was prone to leave you scratching your head, wondering what it was the menagerie of symbols on the page in front of you was actually supposed to mean, Comm Systems leaves me skeptical as the professor gives arm-waving explainations to reduce every equation introduced in the class to the expression "how good it is = awesomeness - suckiness adjustment factor"

The past few weekends have been fun. Last week I got my D license (which means I'm an "expert" skydiver, whatever that means) for the same reason anything other than skydiving gets done on a dropzone: it was cloudy. I've been getting more practice with 4 way video, and worked on my head down flying a bit yesterday. As Danilo says, "There are two steps to learning head down. First, be able to fly with a formation, and suck. Second, is to stop sucking."

I'm getting hung up on the second part though.

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