I keep forgetting today that I have to get up in the morning and go attend classes again on Monday morning. I only had a week off between work and the beginning of the semester, but it seems to have been long enough for me to get used to the idea that I’m allowed to sleep all day if I want to. I did manage to get some reading done today, but that quickly degenerated into the unlikely combination of alcohol and Pokémon. I just dozed off in my chair and woke up to see helicopters circling my neighborhood, but a glance at Google News didn’t offer much enlightment. Maybe that means I should go to bed.

In other news, I mentioned Head First Java way back in June, but I’ve only now started to really dig into it. I’ve been really impressed with how effective the book’s teaching methods have turned out to be - it looks like some sort of goofy LEARN JAVA IN 2 HOURZ thing at first glance, but that’s just because there’s a lot of graphics. A big chunk of each chapter involves puzzles and exercises, many of which can be done directly in the book (as well as programming exercises to be compiled and run). Java’s my first really object-oriented language, but I’m picking it up much faster than I thought I would. Not that the whole thing doesn’t still seem a bit strange after spending so much time snuggled up to C with its attendant procedural delights, but OO isn’t nearly as confusing as it was a few weeks ago.