overall, i would say i had a really good day, although the past few hours of it have been a little frustrating. as some of you have probably read over at penny arcade, gabe and i have been working our asses off on getting the new redesign finished. i had a specific chunk i wanted to finish for him tonight which i’m just not going to have time to do. i’ll probably be able to get it done when i get home from classes tomorrow, but it’s a little disappointing since i don’t like missing even casual deadlines like this.

as for the rest of my day: today was my second day back at nyu. in the morning i had british & irish politics followed by natural sciences i: einstein’s universe, in the afternoon. didn’t have to stay for my lab at least, since there are no labs the first week of classes. i’m still not readjusted to this getting up before 7am thing, but my friend mister no doz will help me through the first couple weeks and after that i’ll probably be fine. both of my classes that met today look to be of the hard-but-interesting variety, which is substatinally better than hard-and-boring, at least. einstein will probably be my hardest class this semester; science has never been my strong point, especially labs. my professor seems entertaining and competent, so it’s can’t be too bad.

i can’t believe it’s eleven pm and i’m already this exhausted, but it’s true. tomorrow i have an india lecture, then ethics (which i’m really looking forward to - i suspect this will be my favorite class this semester; the professor is insanely cool), then india recitation, then i might head over to ethics office hours which are not actually being held in an office but rather a pub downtown. then i have some more textbooks to buy, reading to do, and pa to work on.

colin is finally coming back to new york in a couple of days, which is good because i miss him. i need to go check out london again at some point, it’s been several years since i was last there.

time for more thank yous: thanks to brendan of sydney for the underworld cd that arrived today, thanks to spencer for the coffee and penguins from thinkgeek, and to chris for the urbn package. a word about my wishlists - as i’m now in the city almost all day, there’s nobody home to sign for packages that require signatures, like those from amazon. i’ll probably change the shipping address on the list or arrange something with my neighbor, but for now (i hate to say it) please hold off on the packages because i have no way of getting them. thank you all, though!

<quatoria> good god emma, something kept you from your pikmin?
<emma> ya
<emma> i blame gabe
<cwgabe> I take full resposiblity
<cwgabe> I have been working her pretty hard
<emma> he has
<emma> he’s ruthless
<cwgabe> I had to crack the whip
<cwgabe> crack crack
<cwgabe> it turned out she liked the whip though so I need something new