I slept for 15 hours last night. Seriously. 15 hours. I got home at 4:30 p.m., was out like a light by 5 p.m., woke up at 9:30 p.m. to kick my dogs out of my room ("Nick, pretty please, get these *freakin'* dogs away from me and feed them too" -- I think he was a little stunned, well, I think he definitely was stunned because he responded "Are you feeling ok?"), woke up at 5 a.m. and decided it was way too early and that I should sleep for another hour and then go jogging, and finally work up for good at 7:15 a.m.

I can tell I'm not in college anymore. Yesterday when I left work at 4, I felt like I was about to snap. Actually I think I did snap at around 2 p.m. when G. was trying to make me remember the source of a problem I fixed with a code that I wrote 2 years ago. He looked all dejected when I said "You just can't do that, it won't work... [I started muttering things about orbits and groundtracks and then made him draw groundtracks because I was incapable of visualizing the problem right then] Don't roll your eyes at me! Just trust me..." Of course, engineers never believe that anything won't work until they see the data. And then they believe that once they see the data an immediate fix to the problem will present itself. This is why I firmly believe all engineers are optimists.

begin rant. The problem was I couldn't remember where the data was or even what the problem was. So, given my inability to draw the orbits I wanted, I turned to a software program that I had -- STK. As it turned out, the darned trial/student version I've been using EXPIRED. I tried to renew the license, but it wasn't working. So I tried the ye-old-set back the clock on your computer trick. This basically blew up STK, and now all I get when I try to load it is this weird clock error. Thank goodness my computer is getting refreshed next week. Ok, end rant.

I'm feeling very chipper now. Though, I'm also a bit hungry since I skipped dinner last night. I hope we go somewhere good for Friday lunch.