Today I woke up after probably not enough sleep and felt rather groggy and tired… waking up tired is not a good feeling. Tonight I’ll try and get to bed a bit earlier. I headed off to Databases, which was so-so.

Today I get an email saying the money I paid that I thought was for food was in fact the next month’s rent and actually wasn’t due to be paid until the 1st. Figures. They should spell this shit out more clearly.

After class I head to the HUB, this time I find that the Bank of America ATM wasn’t accepting any cards for some reason, so no cash for me (without getting totally raped by international charges, of course). I have a bit of cash left in my wallet anyway, so I head into ‘etc’, which doesn’t appear to have a website so I can’t link you, sorry. It’s like a mini-mart/dairy type thing. It sells the usual dairy stuff, a whole bunch of asian food products, and the UW clothing paraphernalia. I got an icee and some “men’s pocky” (ha!) and figured to eat a larger meal later on.

I sit and look at a sign for cookies and cream milkshake and it triggers something in my head… I had a dream not last night, but the night before and it somehow involved some kind of discussion on ice cream. One of my friends (it was a girl) was busy telling me how great cookies and cream ice cream was… and then seemed really surprised that I liked it as well. There was something else, but I find it really hard to remember my dreams unless I write them down right after I wake up, and even then I lose a lot of the details. Huh, weird.

Turns out the icee was a weird flavour which isn’t sitting so well with me, so I didn’t finish it. I turn back to my computer and do some email and some blog entries before I head over to the CSE building for my afternoon Colloquium.

Colloquium was a very interesting talk about Operating System crashes. Pretty much anyone who has used a computer has experienced this, and apparently about 85% of them are due to device driver failures. So, the proposed system introduced an isolation layer to transparently detect faults and recover from them. It was implemented on the Linux kernel (open source is a wonderful thing) with extremely good results. Windows is a little harder because all of the code is proprietary, but apparently the Microsoft guys are working on a similar project. Anyway, very cool stuff.

I explored a new route back to my apartment from the CSE building in the rain… I think it might shave a minute or two off of the time, but the difference may be negligible. Not sure. In any case, I have to remember the path if I am to traverse it. Back to the apartment I go.

Put my washing out, start doing a bit of work, chatting intermittently on MSN. Switch the washing to the dryer, get called down by Aidan to try some of his fried rice which I ran into him while he was cooking when I went down before. Pretty good, actually. ^^

Kyung and I went to pick up some burritos. I learned my lesson and this time got two, coming back and watching Stargate Atlantis like I did yesterday. It’s a good pastime for eating dinner, I find. Just before I ate I ran down and got my washing out of the dryer.

After that I did some more work for a while, then talked to Anastasia on the phone as she was about to go to bed, then back to work. Work for a while, then go have a hot shower after finishing the next design template. Man, that shower was very relaxing. I surfed around the clubs on the UW website, keeping some links open on the ones that look interesting.

After that I watched some anime as a break, had a can of Sprite I picked up at the Colloquium then got stuck back into work. I finished up the section of work, then realize it was getting late, so I switched off work and watched the end of Trinity Blood before crashing.