Your mother is a partial derivative.

So what's up with all these natural disastors? In one year, there has been an earthquake followed by a tsunami in Asia, a disasterous hurricane along with other strong hurricanes in the southeastern US, horrible flooding in the east and northeast US, a hurricane followed by mudslides in Guatemala, and an earthquake in south Asia which had a magnitude of 7.6. Is this more than usual? Maybe not, but it feels like it.

In other news, Germany's new chancellor is Angela Merkel. She's the first woman chancellor of Germany ever. The old chancellor was Gerhard Schroeder from the SPD. Germany is one of my favorite countries. Other favorite countries include England, Ireland, New Zealand, Russia, Australia, the US (duh), Switzerland, and Austria. I like Belarus, Greece, Canada, and the whole continent of Africa too. Italy and France are ok, but not one of my favorites. And by "favorite" I mean countries which I am interested in, like for whatever reason, and would like to spend some time in.

So I participated in another psych research thing today. It was really similar to my last one. In one part of this one, I had to answer "trivia questions" which were something along the lines of "which country is known for chocolate, cuckoo clocks, etc", "how many animals of each kind were taken into the ark?", and "what animal was Johna swallowed by?", and if the question was unanswerable I was supposed to put "can't say". I answered those questions with "Switzerland, two, and whale" respectively. Then I turned the page and the question was "Without looking back, who did we say took animals into the ark in the previous question?" I put Noah, but then stopped and thought and couldn't remember if they had actually said Noah or not. So when I gave the papers back to her, I looked to see who it was, and they had put Moses. Crap... guess I got that one wrong... not that it matters. (I was actually laughing about it half the way back to SQ). Then I got lost in East Hall and ended up coming out on the Church St side of the building, which wasn't a tradgedy but it was still dumb that I got lost in EH.

My calc exam was today. Yeah... I didn't even get to finish it. It was so hard... forget multivariable calculus, I couldn't even simplify the crap under the square root! It was way harder than the Harvard exams. Oh well. Maybe there will be a nice curve. I'm actually not worried; I have a strange peace of mind.

Besides that, I have no news. Maybe I'll make some popcorn...