beer is good food

it was a lovely, busy, stressful, productive, headachy first day of summer. i didn't get up in time to accomplish jim's homework assignment, but i did go to school to meet up with steve, shane and sheila to work on the homework which took precidence. we got a lot accomplished, steve & i. it's just a matter of cleaning up some loose ends between now and tuesday and we should be good to go. i'm really pleased with how this is coming together. of course, that means i still have to spend the rest of my day coding, but oh well. after drinking three pints of beer in rapid succession before dinner, i was talking to dean about the course and stuff. at one point he asked, "so, you wrote a program? from scratch?" i started to blow it off like it was no big deal, but i kind of paused and thought "whoa. i wrote a computer program. from scratch! that's a real accomplishment!" it dawned on me that i now have the skill to do something that other people can't even comprehend. it felt very empowering. or maybe it was the beer. then we ate turkey and i got very sleepy, but that didn't stop me from winning three out of six hands of yahtzee!