I am victorious!

I was eating lunch and for some reason started thinking about what the opposite of a funeral would be. It wouldn't be a birth, because the pair there would be birth and death. A funeral is more of a ceremony type of thing, a formal event, so I thought of birthdays. But birthdays are annual and a funeral is only once. But that got me thinking about what birthdays are really about. Is it just, "I'm a year older, woohoo," or is it a celebration of life, a celebration of your life... the anniversary of your first day alive as an individual on this earth, the day your life began. A celebration of your life on the day your life began seems appropriate. And so, President's birthdays which are marked on the calendar are not as inconsequential as I once thought. If their birthdays are thought of as a celebration of their lives instead of just the day they were born, then the day seems much more important... or at least it does to me. And those were my thoughts during lunch.

I found the ketchup today. Unfortunately, I found it as I was walking out of lunch, but at least I know where it is now. One day last week I had chicken nuggets and because I had no clue where the ketchup was, I dipped them in spaghetti sause. Speaking of lunch, I think it's funny that UM can still have better meals and more variety than high school even though UM has so many more people to feed and so many more meals to make per week... twice to three times as many per day. But, I guess there's only so much you can get with $1.25 per day and the school food is good for the price you pay. I pay more than that per meal but it's included in my housing cost so it doesn't seem like I'm paying anything.

Calc was funny today. First, this one guy (guy-A) said something that was wrong and he was corrected by know-it-all guy and some others. Then later he gave an answer and Jani said it was too advanced for the time being, and guy-A said, "I know. I was just trying to redeem myself." That was humorous, but I suppose you had to be there. Then a little later someone asked, "could it be a removable discontinuity?" and another guy (guy-B) yelled out, "What the heck is that?!" Everyone busted, and I was happy because then I realized that I wasn't the dumbest/least informed/least prepared one of the class. Then after know-it-all guy gave another crazy answer that once again proved he was too advanced for the class, Dan yelled to him, "Why don't you get into a better class?" (better meaning higher level) and there were quite a few laughs around the room and the teacher was smilling as well. That was a comment after my own heart.

Good news: I finally conquered number 50 of section 1.1 in my calc book. I had been struggling with this problem since Friday-ish. Once I realized what was going on in the problem it actually wasn't too difficult... I just had to get past the initial "crap, I can't do this... what the heck is going on" mentality and actually think about it. It was quite an accomplishment for me though.

I went to the women's Campus Crusade for Christ Bible study tonight. It was alright.

Time to SLEEP.