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As the title suggests, I'm just taking a break from my VLSI CAD homework to write this entry. I like this class because it has a very obvious "real world" application, and it seems at some point during every lecture, I think to myself, "hey, I could use that to do this one thing that would ordinarily take, like, a week, and shorten it to five minutes."

Oddly, I'm finding my lecture notes from UTD's EE2310 class coming in handy as reference material, as well. By lecture notes, I mean Powerpoint slides I downloaded from the professor's web site; I only actually attended one EE2310 class: the first one. Thank you, Dr. Dodge, for letting me skip the final exam and giving me an A for the class, even though I never did any of your homeworks or quizzes, because now, your notes are useful, and I like useful things.

In other news, it looks like there may be a fair bit of travel in my relatively near future. My parents, sister, aunt, and uncle are coming here for Thanksgiving. The weekend after that, I'll be in Washington. The weekend after that, Tamara is graduating with her Ph.D. in Dallas, but I haven't decided whether I'm going to attend that, yet. The weekend after that, I may be starting a week of skiing in a very cold, as yet unpublicized location (I'm not going public with this until I confirm my plans.). Then, I'll be heading to Houston for Christmas. As Virgin Atlantic says: Go Jet Set, Go!

I ate Chef Boyardee ravioli about an hour ago, and I feel like dying. Ugh. If I can do an appreciable amount of the rest of this homework (I'm about 32% finished now) soon, I'll be joining Katy for dinner at her house, and hopefully, that will ease my stomach a bit. Then, I'll come back home and work on homework again. At least I have a cool, new draftsman's lamp to dispel the darkness.

This is Walter Cronkite. Wait, no, it's not. Good night.