Burninating time

I'm sitting in a computer lab waiting for the waiting period to expire on a Biostatistics textbook on reserve in the library. At the beginning of the quarter, my professor stressed that this book was optional, so I decided not to spend $96 on a copy. It turns out that he meant he wouldn't be giving assignments from it. The book IS necessary if we want to understand any subject material or be able to do any of the homework he assigns, even though it isn't from the book. As I get further and further into the quarter, I find it harder and harder to fork over the money for the book. I thought for a while I could skate by with the first edition available for checkout from the library, but it is missing a lot of material the 4th edition has. Oh well, the quarter is almost over and it's a nice excuse to go somewhere quiet and study. At least I have Saturdays off.
In other news...well, nothing else is going on. There is a lot of video editing hardware in here, and it makes me want to know how to use it. Oh well. I'll file that away along with "use the climbing wall in the rec center" and "rent a kayak." Someday... At least I finally am able to cross "take a martial arts class" off my list. Speaking of which, I learned yesterday that it's a good idea to not aim for the mouth/jaw when punching/kicking. You could break someone's jaw, yes, but my teacher was telling us this story about how he had to dig some teeth out of his palm once, and how a buddy of his had a tooth stuck in his heel for 6 days once and he didn't notice. To think that at the beginning of the quarter I thought he seemed like a stereotypical gym teacher.