Texas hold 'em is my game

In response to Kara's blog, I'm back at school and I've stopped reading. It's sad, but I'm over it. As much as I love reading, I love even more the fact that I'm busy enough that I can't. I've been spending the greater portion of my in-between-classes time working on the first assignment for Computer Science II. It's really just a programming review, but an entirely necessary one for me. The assignment is to take a text file and output that text in the form of a certain shape bordered by asterisks to another text file. It sucks that my hard drive died over the summer and I lost all my notes and projects from last semester. Looking at those would have saved all the time I spent figuring out that I needed a 2-D array. I was pretty angry when I realized how easy it should have been and how frustrated I got trying to code it line by line. And now that my program runs and compiles, I can't submit it! The submission page is entirely different from last year and doesn't like me at all. Hopefully my TA will be helpful when I go to his office hours on Thursday.
Yesterday I went into Albany with Lauren, Nancy, and her boyfriend Alex. He was getting a tattoo and needed a ride, and it provided an opportunity to hang out with Lauren and Nancy. He got a pair of oars on his back because he's really into the crew team. Personally, I don't think I could ever see myself getting a tattoo, but he liked it. The tattoo place was on a street that didn't have parking, and when I tried to park at the Dunkin Donuts around the corner the owner yelled at me. He then noticed my license plate and asked me where in Massachusetts I was from. Conveniently he also grew up in Methuen and told me I could stay as long as I wanted. Sweet! We waited for Alex to get his tattoo and then he bought us dinner.
Later, I joined in on a poker game up at Nick and Adam's apartment. I actually played much better than I expected and won two hands. I haven't played poker in years, so I'd say it was a success.
I like that everyone still hangs out even though we don't live together.