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[deralte]

I get to see ashfae and randomchris on Thursday! This is unexpected but good news. I will just have to avoid using the turnpike to get to the airport though cause the drivers on there have been crazier than usual. Case in point, I was driving my mother to the airport with my dad sitting in the back. I was in the middle lane going about 65 mph. Without really thinking about it, I realized that despite having no brake lights on, the car in front of me was going at a significantly slower speed than me since my car was approaching at a scary rate. I hit the brake on instinct and ended up standing on it to slow it down to 10mph and avoid not hitting the car in front of me. My dad had been watching from the back and said the driver and passenger were fighting and I'll bet he/she just took their foot off the gas, hence the lack of brake lights. I honked then and they accelerated again while I tried to come down from the adrenaline rush and got as far away from that car as possible. You don't do that on the turnpike! And if I'd hit them, it would have been my fault according to the law. Gah.

I have to take a bunch of online quizzes on various topics for my next day of training for my Rutgers comp. lab job. Some, like the ones on windows and troubleshooting were easy, but I had to go into the labs today to experiment with the Macintosh section since I haven't used a mac since I was in high school. It's weird cause I grew up using a Macintosh II, but they've changed so much since then, it's hard to recognize anything. I've got every quiz done now except the Unix one cause just doing the 50 pages of reading they give you on it is giving me headaches.

In other news, since I have a 4.0 at Rutgers, I was offered the chance to apply for a scholarship for next year which is great, but will also have to take the time to write the two required essays and update my resume before the end of the month. Right now it just feels like one more thing. *sigh* They also gave me a chance to apply for the honours society, but I don't think it's worth it. (And you can tell I did all my uni. stuff in Britain cause I was all confused. "You're rewarding me for getting good grades? I thought I was supposed to get those anyway?")

I have grass fed steaks marinating in Jack Daniel's sauce atm. I'm going to cook them up with some stir fried baby bella mushrooms and a sweet potato on the side. Should be delicious. Since Kirk didn't want steaks while he was here on Sun-Weds, I worked Thurs-Sun this week, and had training on Monday, this is the first chance I've had to cook the steaks since I bought them last Sunday. My poor, abandoned steaks.

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[ashfae.livejournal.com]

*boing!*

[c0d3-w4rri0r.livejournal.com]

>You don't do that on the turnpike! And if I'd hit them, it would have been my fault according to the law. Gah.

according to the law and in fact in reality. You're not supposed to take your eyes off the road for more than a moment. If a car is approaching fast you should always notice well in time and have left enough space to stop in time.

>It's weird cause I grew up using a Macintosh II, but they've changed so much since then, it's hard to recognize anything.

I feel that sometimes when I go back to working on my classic system. There was a lot of consistency up to system 9. system x was basically a from scratch os build jobs did when he was sacked from apple, they called it the NeXT os. then when apple brought jobs back they bought NeXT and re branded it OS X. Its why when you code in cocoa most of the classes are prefixed with NS (next system).

>In other news, since I have a 4.0 at Rutgers
What is that in british?

>They also gave me a chance to apply for the honours society
What is that some sort of secret club room for people who get goods marks? Posh restaurant on the top floor desperate freshers willing to please in the basement? I mean I've heard stories about weird stuff at american universities and their clubs. Virgin sacrifices etc.

[deralte.livejournal.com]

The car was in front of me on a busy highway, therefore, they shouldn't have been approaching at all. My eyes were on the road, but the fact that they slowed down without hitting their brakes is very hard to tell when you're directly behind a car. The law in NJ states that the car who hits the back of another car is at fault regardless of the stupid actions of the car in front - so for example, if the car in front backs up and hits the car behind it, the car behind it is still considered at fault even though it was the stupid action of the car in front's driver.

In this case, the car in front of me was lucky I was paying attention and had the reflexes to back up what I noticed (my father would never have stopped in time). I would always say it was the fault of the front driver for taking his/her eyes off the road to argue, not pushing the brake (which at least would have alerted me), and for doing something illegal (driving 10mph in a 65mph zone is illegal unless there's something wrong with your car), but chances are high if I'd hit them, I'd have been to blame. (As for leaving enough space - this is New Jersey, if you leave enough space to stop between you and the car in front of you, another car pulls in to that space.)

A 4.0 would sort of be like a First, but a First where all of your final grades are above 70 (there's nothing higher than a 4.0 and you can only get it by getting an A (90 or above) in all your classes).

More like a not so secret club. You get access to special classes, more attention from professors, and it looks good on your resume. The thing that I don't want to do for it is there's a final project you have to do, and since the chances of me finishing a degree at Rutgers are small, there really doesn't seem to be a point.

[c0d3-w4rri0r.livejournal.com]

It sounds like the m62 at rush hour. Quite mad. Of course legally each time they pull in front of you you should keep slowing down. lol I can imagine that causing a huge amount of honking.

So its the teachers pet society? I got that just be actually paying attention in class. Although I don't think there's really need to bar students from special classes. The ones who will just mess about wouldn't come to anything not compulsory.