Wikipedia, libraries, and school

2007-02-07 05:23:00

I've been putting off writing an article on rook theory for wikipedia until I got a few resources together. Well, it's been a few days since the book I ordered through ILL (which turned out to be a lovely, bound copy of someone's master's thesis) arrived and I still haven't written the article. I did, however, discover that my library has a nifty scanner that will email scans to you, so I scanned in the relevant portion of the book and returned it. I'm leaving in my inbox to make me feel guilty until I write the article.

In school-related news, my combinatorics class is something of a joke. I like the professor well enough, but the material he plans on teaching (as I understand it) is a subset of what was taught in the undergraduate course I took last year. Something of a disappointment, but it will ensure that my GPA stays high, I suppose.

I've just read Arrows of the Queen, Arrow's Flight, and Arrow's Fall by Mercedes Lackey. I've got a copy of the Vows and Honor omnibus (containing the first two books of that trilogy) coming on loan from some other university, so that should keep me occupied once it arrives. I had a copy of The Last Herald-Mage (an omnibus also) on order (from another university), but it got canceled, so I'll have to find another copy or buy it. Since I'm a poor college student, I'm hoping for the former.