Another College Joke? Isn't this getting a bit derivative?

Oh man..I set this post up with a good math pun, but I can't really think of how to play off "derivative".  O well, that's what the comments are for, I reckon.  Anyway, another college joke (well, not quite so much a joke as an insight in to who I am and what I do).

There were two college students, sharing a dorm room.  The first was basket-weaving major and the second a computer science major.  One fine day, in the wee hours of the morn, just before sunrise, they meet each other just getting back to the room.
 "Man, I was at a great party today.  Whole lot of fun.  Got *wasted*!  How about you?" asks the basket-weaving student.
"No, party for me, man.  I was at the lab all night." replies the comp sci major.
"What?  That sucks!  It's a Saturday night!"  says the basket weaver.
"Oh... it's not that bad... all of the comp sci students were there."
"How can you say it's not that bad?  That sounds horrible."
"Actually, I'm pretty happy with the night."
"What?  You've been up all night doing homework.  How can you be so positive?"
"Because it feels so good when it's done," says the comp sci major as he collapses into bed.

So, like I said... not the funniest joke in the world.  However, I do remember one of my buddies from college telling me it back in college and getting a kick out of it.  But that's definitely how I find myself operating these days.  Generally, I hate doing something while I'm doing it, but when it's done yay rah!  (That one there is for you, Skoot.)

Lemme give you an example.  Last week, a really nasty thunderstorm rolled through.  Hit so hard that I shot straight up in bed, which I haven't done since high school.  (I'm a pretty deep sleeper; just ask my college roommates, I actually slept through a fire drill once...  Ooops.)  So, the storm was really bad.  In the morning, all networking was out, phone didn't work (we have Vonage), my desktop was out of commission, and the TV kept rebooting.  (The TV that we had just hooked up like a week and a half prior?  That's the one!)

So, I had to spend the *entire* weekend getting things back up and running.  The networking was a pain in the ass, but finally we got out one the other end with a few new pieces of hardware to replace things that were blown out, a newer faster streamlined wireless network, and maybe a few repairs on the TV.  All in all, not too bad.  However, Friday - Saturday - Sunday were all pretty much crap.  (Just take a look at my FB update on Friday.  It was full of bad juju.)  However, come Monday morning, where all of my issues were pretty much at an end (save the TV, but we've got a plan for that), I'm happy as a cucumber.

So, while the process sucks, it feels so good when it's done.  And I wouldn't have it any other way...