I'm a little zoo-ey tonight- I've spent at least 8 solid hours in front of the computer today, coding a bank simulation project for computer science. It's times like these that I become all the more certain that this is NOT what I want to do for a living: Programming is a useful skill, and could help land me a job to support myself during the course of my education, but I cannot see myself receiving a gold watch from Microsoft, by any means. I need to feel like I'm making more of a difference in the world than I can by churning out millions of lines of code.

Of course, my day of computer bondage could have been avoided if I had done more work earlier in the week, while on spring break. Patrick and I have developed a grand tradition of waiting till the last possible moment, or at least too close to the due date for comfort, before starting a project, and then pulling a series of low-sleep/high-caffeine nights to finish everything in time. It's kind of sadistic, but at the same time, I think we enjoy the rush. It's that rush that makes one feel that much better at the moment one finally turns in the damned thing.

Our usual project timeframe is being interrupted this time- my dad and little sister and brother are driving up to visit me tomorrow, and staying till Tuesday. It should be kind of fun- I think we'll go to the Science Museum of Minnesota tomorrow afternoon, and out to dinner. It's getting harder to find activities that Jenna and David will be interested in- at 15 and 13, they're becoming more cynical by the day (God, I sound like a parent). The museum has an Omni theatre, though, something that they still might be intrigued by.

On account of the visit, I won't be updating tomorrow, but I should be back on Tuesday. And now, back to coding. Phlbbbt!

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