So, working backwards:
Der (Die? Das? Ich weiß nicht.) iBook ist, noch einmal, tot. poor thing just couldn't take it anymore, and decided to halt after only 1GB into the backup of data. No tricks seem to be reviving it this time. It bongs when I hit the power, but no disk noises or anything else. damn. back to the shop (third time in 6ish months for this one).
Earlier that day I was running all over, being kept extremely busy at work (much like I should be right now but I'm slacking at the moment). With a short break in the middle of the day to have a nice relaxing lunch with her (yummy crepe) and a little walking around the campus chatting. My time here on campus yesterday culminating in the last class session for the semester, and I was *ON* all class. I had the answers, I went to the board and didn't totally choke or make a fool of myself, I was being so damn annoyingly good the instructor started calling on other students by name simply so I wouldn't call out the answer right away. This being worth noting simply because this topic hasn't been making ANY sense all semester and yesterday little bits and pieces finally started to fall together and for the first time in years I felt like I might eventually be able to grasp what the frell is going on with this area of math. The light hasn't entirely been turned on in my head, but there were a few sparks of activity yesterday.
Wednesday saw me having a reasonable day, nothing overly exciting that I can remember from work. I just remember that when I got done with work I was simply *not* in the mood to study. I couldn't get my mind in the right place for it, so I called
So ja, there's a recap of the last few days.