Lab-tastic

Tonight was my last lab for the school year. Oh man, was it a bitch. Laura and I got there at 4:30, started seriously working around 5, and finished up around 8:45 or so. It didn't seem like it should have needed to take so long, but there were just a lot of dumb MATLAB details to work out...like how to scale the x axis on a fft plot, and figuring out the frequency spectrum of a set of filters they gave, and dealing with the fact that MATLAB just quit doing the whole sound thing every few runs. Blah. We got through it, though, and as usual Laura put up with a fair amount of my pulling semi-plausible explanations for things that were totally wrong out of my butt and trying to work with them until a TA cleared things up for us. Heh.

It's going to be nice not having a lab next semester. I don't know why, but I always dread these days when I know that after class I have to stay around for another 3 hours and mess around with stuff. I think that even if it were extra homework I'd be happier...I just hate the general feel of labs.

In other news. I think I'm going to save all my blogs and give them to my future daughter, if I ever have one, to read if she wants. On one hand it'll be kinda strange, like letting her read my diary. On the other hand...well, hell. Let's hope I'm not putting anything out here for that I wouldn't want my own flesh and blood to see. I wonder how much my own perspectives on life are going to change between now and then...