6(^6) Degrees of Separation

I made a mad dash to get my Advanced Phylogenetics paper and PowerPoint presentation in. No, mad dash really isn't the word to use, more like...frantic last-minute panic. I have to say that it's not wholly my fault...PAUP* took hours, if not days to carry out most of the analyses I did. Agnes in her presentation today said that one run through her data set with a heuristic search went on for more than a month and it still hadn't been finished yet. Argh.

So I ran my ass off to class and Professor Murphy was there right behind me making a smarmy remark. Which I guess is just as well. I do take school too seriously, so much so that it's almost impossible for me to tell the difference between when they're joking and when they're being serious. Anyway, so I forgot all about the Gap Coding assignment that was due on the same day. Double-argh. But it wasn't so bad. Next door at ZOOCU they were having free quasi-Chinese food, so at least I made up for the fact that I skipped dinner the night before and breakfast and lunch. I pigged out, especially in front of Nancy, but I didn't care. I saw Anna there and talked to her for a bit. It doesn't bother me as much as it did before (not that I really was objecting to it), but it was still nice that she took the time to come to me and say hi.

I spent a good day with Naomi a few weeks ago and I really enjoyed it. It still really boggles me, just how they were able to remember me so well when I met them outside Seekers last year. God, they even still remembered my writing. Anyway, I really needed that. It was a nice time to talk to someone who wasn't from school and take some things I'd been carrying around with me off my chest, plus it gave me a chance to act all sappy and tell her about me and Jennie.

Dropping by Karen's site on LiveJournal reminded me of a most bizarre thing I'd heard when I was with Naomi. Apparently, she knows Alex, and her friends, and they met through mutual friends. Weird. It's something I never would have imagined.

Yesterday I bumped into, of all people, Wenjun, the girl who got me connected to Karen and Naomi in the first place. She looked really good, though I have to admit that I think her hair looked better when it was shorter. And she looked really happy too; well, for Wenjun anyway, but not happy enough to remove the Wenjun we've come to know and love so well...it's a good thing she's still retained her trademark jaded cynicism; I was starting to get worried there for a minute...