Homework is blessedly ahead of schedule due to a consortium of titanic minds in the last few days in order to avoid working over Thanksgiving. Two-dimensional quantum harmonic oscillators, even when bringing magnetic fields and varying ladder operators to bear, stand little chance against an army of graduate students whose goal is to slack off next week. This is especially good since I will have company for the holiday, and we plan to cook up a storm.

I encountered a pretty good Phoenix Wright parody that other day that produced this glorious gem:

It seems as though wintery weather is finally attempting to make an incursion in to the Davis region, as highs in the 50s and rains are forecasted for the next several days. The blustery gusts that are blowing this system in right now are doing their best to finish clearing the trees of leaves, but I'd say half of them are still swarming with fall foliage. Luckily we have an Arc to protect us and ensure racquetball possibilities in the event of a downpour. 

I realized just recently that I had not yet provided any Disney villains for your enjoyment. I shall rectify this matter in this very paragraph. There are several who are worthy of mention, but one who stands towering above the rest. The Mistress of all Evil, Maleficent:

Her cunning is to be feared and her outrage at the smallest of slights is legendary. Scorned an invitation to a birthday party, Maleficent gets her revenge by enacting a vile curse upon the birthday girl, dooming her to sleep forever by pricking her finger on a spinning wheel. Despite an entire nations best efforts to destroy its strangely vast stock of spinning wheels, the witch's prediction comes true, and it is left to a prince to wake the sleeping beauty. Maleficent pulls out all the stops and famously calls upon all the powers of Hell that it might not be so. Her sorcery is mighty, but sadly she resides in a Disney movie, so the powers of truth and virtue are greater still and she is vanquished by the noble prince.