Since Everyone Else Is Doing It

My Meyers-Briggs, though I refused to take it for my old nasty boss:

Your Type is
INFJ
Introverted 44
Intuitive 56
Feeling 11
Judging 44

Hmmm...Last time I took a much longer test (this one was only 72 questions) and got something that had letters in it that I had never seen before. This one is OK though. I like the idea of being like Ghandi.

Sylvia

Okay, so I was very very anxious to see Sylvia. I am a huge Sylvia Plath fan. I read her "unabridged" diaries earlier this year, and just re-read The Bell Jar, so I know her life story, but I was interested to see how they did it on film.

( So here's what I thought, cut for spoilers. )

*Sylvia Plath really was quite pretty. Which reminds me of something that happened when I was at Denison. My junior year, Jorie Graham came to campus to read, and it happened to be just after she won the Pulitzer Prize, so it was a huge deal. My poetry prof, when telling us all to go to the reading, actually said, "Jorie Graham is one of America's loveliest poets," and she meant the way the woman looked, not the way she wrote. I was astounded that someone (especially another woman poet, not exactly unattractive herself) said that, when she would have never said it about a male poet. I ended up not so impressed by Graham either. I know she's good, but I find her writing quite inaccessible, and she was very egotistical to all the students there. She also chain-smoked like no one I've ever seen, which caused several of our writing profs I'd never seen light up before to become devoted smokers for the week she was on campus.

Depressing

My fortune cookie fortune from lunch: "All the answers you need are right there in front of you!"

There was a blank brick wall in front of me.

Sad.

I *heart* geeks

In my programming class, we are currently learning about algorithm efficiency, which is written via "Big-O notation." This is an actual quote from my class's chat room:

Is the Week 12 Powerpoint supposed to be all of the material needed to cover this topic? The Horton text mentions nothing about "Big O". When I did an internet search on "Big O" there was some interesting information, but not much that related to sort algorithms.

Ahem. Not even a smiley.