Class, Colds, Chess, Characters, and Things Not Starting with C.

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• The other prof of my class was absent this Tuesday-Wednesday, so I had to cover the whole two hours. Plus, I misread the homework assignment as being due Monday, not Monday a week¹, so I thought I had to cover the entire thing, including the bits we haven't got to in class yet.
  
  Given that we bugged out half an hour early, I suspect I did not completely succeed. Discussion sections are the toughest audiences.


• Picked up a bug somewhere that kicked in Thursday morning - sore throat, runny nose², soreness of muscles ... well, no, actually that last is due to overstress on the "Lat Pulldown" machine at the school gym. Yay exercise!


• Went to chess club last night after the gym, ran into a guy from my FEM class there. He talked me into playing blitz - 10 minutes per player - and then wiped the floor with me as soon as I slipped up and dropped a knight in both games. So it goes.


• You see Friday's "Little Dee"? Panel four? So my brother.


• This is the most absurd thing I've ever seen. (Well, today. So far.)


• I'm seriously short of non-C items.

Well, that's mostly all. Cheers!

1. 2.8%, unless the missing "a" is highly significant³, in which case it might be as high as 11% or more. ^
2. I'd elaborate on the viscosity and color, but no-one wants to read that junk. ^
3. Or unless Irregular Webcomic readers are a nonrepresentative sample. Which, of course, they are. ^
4. Now with x% more meaninglessness, where x doesn't mean anything! ^