Today and yesterday were days of commercialism pure and simple, though motivated by outside forces, like the beginning of my computer ethics and law class. I ordered six CDs from Amazon, two from each of, Rachel's, A Minor Forest, and God Speed you Black Emperor!
The other thing I purchased was a DVD-RAM/R/RW. The CD-R/RW I have in my laptop has about a 1/50 functionality these days, which is definitely a problem since my class materials are all on a CD. I happened to run into Shoji, a guy we met at K's party a couple of Saturdays previous. He was taking his TOEIC (Test of English for International Communication), or maybe it was his English for University exam, I forget. He happened to work at the Midori where I was shopping and used his employee discount to knock the price from 3万 to ２万２千円。 I was quite pleased. After running through all the tests, and wading through the manuals, I am pleased to say, "We have a working CD/DVD drive again."
I am very much looking forward to this class, perhaps more than any other class so far, perhaps with the exception of the Formal Methods class. I believe it may be a toss up. It looks challenging but interesting, which I have no problem with. That, combined with the research project、promises that June will be　とっても忙しい。 I am pleased that it is such. Now I am off to read more of the T.J. Hooper case.