equations.

Wednesday. I'm sitting in Sidney Smith cafeteria with Glenn Sean and Nikko. There's a small Tim Horton's franchise within the caf, and given that the place is populated almost exclusively by sleep deprived, and overachieving students, calling it busy would be an understatement. The line for this Timmies snakes around a corner and almost overlaps on itself. But as Sean has cleverly pointed out to me, the line always reduces as the clock gets closer to the end of the hour. Or maybe this equation would define this line better for you:

N = (60-x)^2 , where N is the length of the line in number of fiending coffee drinkers, and x is the number of minutes after the hour, 0 <= X <>

Anyways. I open with that line definition because i want you all to know just how frustrated i was that i was too engaged in conversation with my buddies to realize that the time (1:58) was getting dangerously close to the hourly reset. Unfortunately for

me, by the time i realized this (2:02), the reset had already occurred and a wave of caffeine junkies were already forming a tight-packed pelvis-gluteus line. Let's do the math and see just how bad the damage was.

1:58, therefore x is equal to 58, N =(60-58)^2 = 4

2:02, therefore x is equal to 02, N =(60-02)^2= 3364

Damage = delta N = N2-N1 = 3364 - 4 = 3360

So basically what this lovely equation is telling us, is that within a 4 minute time window, i managed to miss the opportunity to take advantage of a 4 person line, and instead was confronted with a line of 3364 people. A difference of 3360 people.

Well, i was quite upset, but hey, i'm not going to let that ruin my day, so i stuck around until it was near the end of the hour once more. Finally getting my coffee and donut at the conclusion of an almost 2 hour affair.

I had two sips before i spilled half of it on my leg on my way to class because I hopped over a slush covered curb.

Is a coffee too much to ask for?

On another note, this made me chuckle today when i was downloading something.

I think it's time to upgrade to gold, people.