Tomorrow is my first midterm - in Neurosciences to be exact… I feel sorta ready. But talking to others, most feel the same way, since no one knows what to expect. The good thing is that the class is graded based on a T-score (basically a Bell curve), so you just have to perform at or above the class mean to get a decent grade. Wish me luck!

It's too bad I haven't had nutrition yet… Tonight I ate a large plate of pasta with marinara/meat sauce, along with a nice salad. I remember something about athletes eating pasta the night before a big game… Maybe it will work for my brain too. Though I probably should have eaten fish, but the problem with that is I don't like fish. Well, I could have made my famous crab Alfredo over shells. Come to think of it, the crab meat isn't real though - in actuality its some sort of Japanese fish that I've never heard of. I wonder if masquerading as another species makes it better or worse brain food…

Finally, for those of you following my Hard Drive saga, I have purchased an external USB HDD. I have an image (copy) of my entire hard drive on it, plus, I have a program that automatically backs up My Documents, email files, etc., every time that they change so that I will have an up-to-date copy of my most important files should my primary HDD decide to crash. It's something I should have done years, and many crashes, ago, but hey, no one's perfect. And actually it may crash at any time… Yesterday, I got a BSOD that let me know that Windows encountered a "serious error," and was halting everything to protect Windows from itself. (Gotta love MS products..) After rebooting, I got another cheery message that a "serious error" had occurred, but no problems since then. Wish me luck on this front too