Sundry Thoughts

Git is the best version control system ever.
College is one of those things I have to do instead of programming, which is what I really want to do but can't cause I need a degree or else people won't pay me. It sucks especially cause I'm almost through the crappy general-ed part where I have to take writing classes and discussion classes, and almost onto the kick-ass degree only part; where I'll be programming like a madman. I'm not even sure anymore if I care about getting A's. I just want to pass the classes and get on with the good-stuff. My enthusiasm for school has been worse, but it's getting down to the ground right now. I was briefly interested in the new college experience; real college is a lot different than junior college, culture-wise; and that was interesting for awhile, but now I'm starting to feel closed in by homework and tests. It's not that the curriculum is so hard, as it is that I just can't keep myself together enough to push through things that aren't immediately gratifying. That's one of my bigger problems.
Other people get narcolepsy or epilepsy, I get avoid-olepsy. I avoid things I don't want to do, instead of doing them. It's not the most beneficial strategy I know, but it's obviously hardwired into my brain because I can't seem to stop! I need a self help book...
However, today was a good day by emotional standards. Woke up, felt good--didn't have a headache, unlike the past couple days. Now if only the neighborhood would regain power so that I might take my nightly walks without bumbling in the dark, everything would be great.

The problem with college teachers is that they repeatedly, and obviously erroneously, refer to their knowledge of the real world, and assert that in the real world, the stuff that they teach in the academic world actually matters. When of course, we all know that is not the case. What's astonishing (or perhaps only natural) is that teachers, who by vocation rarely step out into the "real world", unceasingly make reference to it. This may be an example of the Dunning-Kruger effect; so divorced from realness are they, that they paradoxically (and mistakenly) assume they know everything about it. But perhaps I give them too little credit. Certainly some of them occasionally breach the ivory tower--but I doubt it is as many as claim to.