My favorite Starbuck's, the cozy one on 51st and Harvard, is packed tonight. I just managed to grab the last free seat in the house. It has been a marathon reading day. A hundred pages here, fifty pages there, a little of this book a bit of that one. I stopped in at Starbuck's to nail the coffin shut on my Data Structures II reading before the quiz tomorrow night; I have two chapters left. I have three chapters left in the Checkpoint Management II book, my CCSE examination is scheduled for Friday. I have elected to continue reading the MPI book I have until the C++ version arrives. At least it will help to build some background with the MPI libraries, i.e. knowing which functions have which properties and so on. I'm reading selected works of Plato for enrichment, while simultaneously reading Linked by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi. I am stimulated to the max this week. My sincerest wish is that I could continue along this path indefinitely. There are some scholarships that I will be working on over the weekend, with their help perhaps next year I will be able to follow this path again in the future. For now, it has been the most enjoyable Fall I've had in recent history. Here is to the future.
