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Took the last shuttle home from the department sometime before midnight. It was miserably cold and rainy, and the shuttle driver was kicking people off of the shuttle once the seats filled up. Someone asked why they couldn't stand and hold onto the rails, and she said something about "This is an executive vehicle. It does not have a posted standing passenger limit."

Several hours snuggled up with my laptop, texing the last of the cryptography assignment, catching up a bit on email. Went to bed around three.

Woke up at 8:30 for no apparent reason. A long breakfast, where Rosa Parks' obituary in the paper inspired a discussion on the purpose of protests, a long shower, looked at plane ticket prices online, a long walk to the department in the rain. Didn't make it in before 11.

Work for an hour. The last part of my computer vision project works now. Now I just have to get the second-to-last part working.

Lunch with Jan, soup, because it's soup weather and I like soup.

Cryptography was a guest lecture by Tal Rabin on public-key cryptography. She babied us a lot, which was kind of nice. The climax of the lecture was to be the presentation of Rabin's algorithm and the reduction to factoring, but that got squashed into the end.

Ran out of computer vision at 3:45 to catch a 4:00 train which put me in New York at 5:30 for a 6:00 dance lesson. I had brought my homework, intending to do it on the train, but instead I took a nap. Actually, I had intended to cancel the lesson because I'm so behind on work, but figured I might as well go. Did some tango, some rumba. At the end I felt like my diaphragm had had a good workout, and my mood had cheered considerably.

7:13 train back which put me in Princeton at 8:45. Managed to solve several PL problems on the train. The man across the aisle was arguing with his wife about his long commute for the entire train ride. Ran by Frist for dinner, where mysteriously the meal which costs $13 on the meal plan was worth $3.50 in vegetable sushi.

Sat down alone in my office to type up my solutions and code the second half of the assignment in ML. Hit my stride around midnight. Implemented a pretty-printer. Everything worked around 2:30.

Walked home at 3 am. Only a month ago it was shorts and sandals weather, and now it's drizzly cold-in-medium coat, medium gloves, and hat weather, where "medium" means "as warm as I ever needed in California". According to the web it will freeze tonight. Some of the modern art sculptures on campus are rather alarming when they appear quite unexpectedly and lumpily out of the shadows in the corner of your eye.