OH MY GOD!! 3 done, 1 to go!

cooking tonight: spaghetti in tomato sauce with ground beef and parmesean
ingridients:
1/2 medium onions, finely chopped
2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
1 stalk celery, finely chopped (cut length wise into 3 and chop into tiny bits)
4 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 cube of vegetable stock (homemade!)
1/2 cup of water
1/2 can tomato paste
pinch teaspoon salt, or to taste
2 splashes red wine
bay leaf
1/2 teaspoon herbes du provence

1/2 pound ground beef
spaghetti (for, err, 2 portions, dunno how really much)

heat onion, garlic until tranclucent in oil on medium low heat, add the stock and celery and the water, and heat for about 5 more minutes. add the tomato puree, herbs, bay leaf and heat (for as long as possible , up to an hour – i had only about 30 minutes). add wine about 10 minutes before done.

when the sauce is about ready (or you’re about starving), cook spaghetti (add another cube of vegetable stock to the water to make it the real good thing). brown the ground beef in olive oil, add it to the sauce, warm the whole thing for as long as it takes for spaghetti to cook, serve, eat.

yum.

i wish i had basil! argh.

drinking tonight: kindzamaruli red sweet wine

so, 3 exams are DONE DONE DONE!! datbases went SWEETLY, and psych was tough (3 hours of writing non stop, 2 essays, 5 terms in 3 booklets for 21 pages of writing).

the evening was spent watching csi and enjoying the food and wine. life is so good when you only have one exam ahead of you. and i can sleep in tomorrow. and then i study. but i don’t care, because i am free FREE FREE!

one down, 2 to go, one in an hour, but WHERE IS MY COFFEE

second cupsecond cup closed right under my nose just now. at 5:30. and i came there at 5:36. i’m so pissed off, i was craving coffee for a while but decided to review one more term first. there goes the support of MY studiousness!

and there is no coffee nearby, like, anywhere. i guess i could go to hart house, but its a big circle away from the exam building.

first exam went FAMOUSLY. i left 40 minutes early. only didn’t know one question, and even wrote a recursive SQL query. (that’s pretty sweet)

now i’m barely studying for psych, and i’m so TIRED.

tired tired tired tired tired.

TIRED.

i want coffeeeeeee.

large shrimp




large shrimp

Originally uploaded by MatthewA.

i’m addicted to food porn.

study sucks. my progress:

1 Sept 13 Introduction
2 Sept 20 The ER model , The relational model
3 Sept 27 Relational Algebra
4 Oct 4 Relational Calculus
5 Oct 11 SQL – 1
6 Oct 18 SQL – 2
7 Oct 25 SQL in an Application
8 Nov 1 Recursive Queries
9 Nov 8 Functional Dependencies
10 Nov 15 Normal Forms
11 Nov 22 From ER to Relational Model
12 Nov 29 XML, Xpath and XQuery

done @ 2:16am! taxi ordered for 8:30am, exam is @ 9-12. then, nap, snack until 2, and review until 7, write 3rd exam at that point. i’m feeling good! the autofail for this exam is 30%, so as long as i get above 30% (which i definitely can), i pass. at this point… thats all i care for.

3 days left

this is making my brain hurt.

someone else from my databases class agrees – he posted this sentence as a reply to a question:

Remember, if there is an FD in F that has elements split across R1 and R2, you will have to add another relation R3 into the decomposition where R3 contains all items referenced by FDs that are in F but not found in F1 or F2.

i understand what it is saying but i cannot understand how can i understand it.

see?

i’m gone. u of t has killed me!

1 down, 3 to go, 6 days left

so, in good news, first exam went like hot pancakes. totally sweet. i completely didn’t answer one question (4 marks out of 60), but i can afford to miss like 16 marks and still get 82% as final mark! i’m feeling good. my hand feels like it totally will die.

distractions: videos: don’t work so hard – totally applies, canon d on guitar – very inspiring music, and the guy looks so into it that its just sweet.

this is a wicked idea. next time i have a chance to paint a wall in my room (or two) with this paint, i’m so doing that. its paint that has metal in it, which makes your walls magnetic. *sweetest* *idea* *ever* (and no lead, totally safe).

cool website for cute semi useful stuff.

lovin’ right now

i present THE WEBSITE OF MY DREAMS: cuteoverload. pictures of cute stuff.

going to eat tonight: garlic mashed potatoes, and very awesome steak.
garlic mashed potatoes:
boil potatoes with some bayleaf and garlic until smooshy. throw away the water, and mush with minced garlic and cream and butter, to texture desired. cream makes them smooooth.

steak:
no clue yet. probably just steak with some spices – its really good meat, should taste awesome. :D

yay for all the fluffy snow outside!

deux balles de 22. vingt deux ans adieu

why do exams stress me out so much? its like the smallest thing can set me off.

in the recent years i have calmed down significantly. i used to have much more mood swings, which would go from negative to positive extremes in a very short amount of time, with negative mood prevailing.

as time moved on, so did my mood swings. in the past 3 years it has been a particularly strong wave of improvement, with moods straying towards mostly positive.

last 2 years, i am happy.

but exams – only exams, no other kind of stress, not work, not people stress, not photoshoots-gone-wrong, no fights, no broken cameras, laptops, no missed flights-lost-luggage, no other situation except exams – bring back these terrible moodswings where i can barely get a handle on myself. it feels like if i don’t do well, everything will end. and i know – i know – that it is not true. at this point marks matter so little. i’ll be fine even if i have to take this stupid databases course 5 times.

and still, right now, if i’m not studying or keeping myself busy with something (talking, cleaning), i just start freaking out.

and i’m in 4th year and i still can’t get a handle on this.

playlist:

  • Mc solaar – La belle et le bad boy
  • Conjure One – Sleep
  • Sean Paul – We be Burnin
  • Max Richter – November
  • Moby – Raining Again
  • tchaikovsky – swan lake
  • bt – remember (sasha’s mix)
  • Sarah Brightman – Deliver me

    • and that’s all really.