Hiten commented a couple of days ago that I don't get bored very easily, and I guess it must be true. Today, I amused myself, to my friends' great embarassment, by trying to figure out why the Caltrain seat backs weren't flipping. Four of us had gotten onto a relatively empty car on our way to San Francisco to visit Tory, and because I distinctly remembered sitting facing some other people on my ride from SFO to school during ProFro weekend, I tried to flip one over so that we could sit so. No luck. For some reason, it really, really bugged me—enough to send me crawling along the aisles to get a good look at the underside. It turned out that some of the levers which should be holding down one-way catches are bent inward in a way that, when pulled upon, does move the catch out of the way but frustratingly impedes the catch itself. (Sorry, I think I'd need a diagram to explain it any better than this, and that would disrupt the pattern of... well, I don't know what pattern it'd be disrupting, but it would sure be annoying for me!) Thus, only selected seats can be flipped. I wonder if it's intentional and perhaps related to seat position on the train. But wedged between the guard rail and the seat cushion as it is, it's a pretty out-of-the-way mechanism to disable. I don't understand why any corporation would pay for such nifty seats only to bend a metal piece that negates the entirety of its coolness. Curious.

I was supposed to plow through at least half of my CS mini-programs tonight. Bloated by complacency from having finished the first yesterday in less than ten minutes, through, I kind of lazed around and fell asleep while dreaming of fractals and recursive functions. Mmmm. They sound so fascinating in the text; too bad I'm not better at implementing them!

If I can't decide on a tentative major, I should at least be thinking about what I want to do with myself this summer. It's about that time. Currently there's a really cool-sounding and concrete option. It's Stanford Sierra Camp, bordering the Desolation Wilderness just south of Lake Tahoe, which I've heard is a really amazing experience in a really amazing setting. I mean, wilderness! Yay! With my lack of academic background in any one field, I'd be fairly hard-pressed to find an academic internship. Plus, it would be nice to just make some money this summer; this job, in addition to paying a decent amount, would probably not make me incur many expenses because room and board are provided and it's in the middle of nowhere. One of the biggest drawbacks, though, is that I'll need to be here from right after finals through the first week of September. I was sort of banking on living at home at least part of the time. I'm not sure how much I can count on finding a respectably-paying and interesting job around home, though. Then again, there's no guarantee that I'd get the job here.

Well, the application's due with a recommendation this Friday, so I pretty much need to decide now to give somebody time to write it. But first, the programs are calling my name...