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[kleenexwoman]

MATH CLASS: We've moved on from basic, simple "Find X! It's probably under the bed. Did you check the laundry hamper?" stuff to problems like "Illya has two liters of Burnett's 70-proof vanilla-flavored vodka and three liters of 100-proof Smirnoff, the kind with the blue label. How much Burnett's and Smirnoff will he have to mix together to get a drink that's exactly 80 proof?" and "Patrick had $500,000. At the beginning of 1984, he deposited some of his money into a CD at a 5% rate of interest, and the rest of it into a savings account at a 9% rate of interest. After a year, the interest is enough for Patrick to buy a quarter of a kilogram of cocaine for his New Year's party. How much money did Patrick deposit into the savings account?"
I got everything wrong on the mixtures assignment and have nearly given up on this interest-rates thing. The formulae the prof gave us just don't seem to make sense and they don't apply to half the problems, and when I try reasoning them out I get them wrong.

Firefox keeps freezing up on me. Fuck you, automatic updates, fuck you.

STUFF THAT DOESN'T MAKE ME WANT TO SMASH MY KEYBOARD IN RAGE: I found my cell phone. My dad sent me some money. I really need to call most of my relatives. We finally saw Get Smart and it was surprisingly funny, and I vaguely want to download some episodes of the original series but Don Adams' voice is nails-on-blackboard annoying. I want to go to the beach or something for July 4th, but I don't think there are any lakes within daytripping/weekend tripping distance (even if we just followed 10 west or went to Saugatuck or something, it'd still be two hours either way), and anyway we're probably going to stay in the apartment and watch Wonder Showzen or see another movie or something.

There are hawks wheeling in the sky outside. Everything looks beautiful from inside the library.

ETA: I just spent fifteen minutes messing around with Google Earth and planning out a huge roadtrip. Clearly need to get the fuck out of Mt. Pleasant after classes are over.

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[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

Thanks! When I was doing the problems the first time, I kept throwing in all sorts of totally pointless variables before it was pointed out to me that this was not in the least necessary. Very frustrating and bad for drink-mixing.