Got this from Garrett.
Middle East Geography Test

One small benefit of getting my car fixed at the local Chinese-owned mechanic down the street is that, when I pick up my car, I don't have to move the seat back to normal position - for once, the mechanic dude is _not_ three times larger than I am.

I took my car in today, because after our Sushi Sushi Sushi trip on friday, as we were arriving back at Dupont Circle, I noticed my car smoking. Someone from the backseat dismissed it as "fog", but when my hood started fuming, the illusion would not hold.

After two false starts when I first (stupidly) refilled the windshield wiper fluid (doh), and then (a little smarter) refilled the coolant in the radiator, I realized that I had some major leakage from the radiator.

good thing that this little chinese fix-your-car shop was down the street, otherwise it would have been an all-day ordeal to get a tow-truck to take it to the dealer in Virginia, and then to take the metro back.

After three long grueling weeks, I'm done!

Well, I still have a medium-sized paper to write, but I have a whole week to write it.

I just turned in my last takehome last night at midnight, from a diner in Bethesda, over email via my cell phone (heh - wanted to start celebrating before I was really done).

This weekend I'm taking off. But next week should be pleasant...

Just got out of my Int'l Trade System exam.

Once again, I just barely slip in terms of amount of studying: As I ate my cereal this morning an hour before my exam, I felt the urge to do some extra reading - last night, I was studying with Dennis, and he had this book that I felt could have been important, but he was leaving and needed it for studying himself. The library was closed, so I had no access to a copying machine, so the only thing I could do was to use my digital camera, and take pictures of the pages of the book. Well, this morning, I read the section of the photographed book (which thank God came out in focus). It turns out that what I had read the 20 minutes during breakfast was the key point to one of the two questions on the exam.

If I had woke up a little later, or had the pictures not turned out, I'd probably not done half as well.

Anyways, one down, two to go - another all-day library fun fun day.