May 17

On Tuesday, I woke up early for my class. I wasn't going to attend any classes this week while my boyfriend is in town, but my group scheduled our presentation for today. So, I gave my boyfriend the choice to sleep in or come with me and he chose to wake up early and come with me. So I got to campus early, set him up in the computer lab, printed out my presentation notes and headed to class. Our presentation went OK, we had an ice-breaker game to get everyone out of their seats and throw balled up paper, faster and faster, more and more balls until they started dropping them all over the place. This was supposed to demonstrate how networks end up falling apart, easily when people don't focus on their task at hand or end up getting flustered by too many other things, etc. I was very worried because we hadn't practiced our parts together even once, so I wasn't sure how it would go in terms of timing and Jane ended up talking for a long time, giving me very little time for the conclusion. But I tried to talk fast and it worked out well, maybe we were only a couple minutes over. After a 2nd group presentation, class was over and I took Jane and Manuel to meet my boyfriend, who looked pretty cute sitting in the computer lab with a collared shirt. haha They had to run off to class, but at least they got to meet each other because I talk a lot about all of them. I didn't go to the rest of my classes that day, instead, I walked around campus with my boyfriend, then we ate at the food court and made ourselves some sandwiches. After lunch, we walked to the city cat and took the ferry back into the city. We bussed home and relaxed for a while, since we had woken up early. In the late afternoon, we went to Paddington and walked around lower Paddington, since my boyfriend really wanted to do it after Michael pointed it out as the cool, bohemian area. It's really not that great, just a couple of high-priced vintage and boutique clothing stores, and we arrived as everything was closing, but it was nice to get out and explore a new part of town, nonetheless. We ate at a neat little pizza place which had some decent pies, then had a couple of fancy drinks at the Lark before cabbing home.