Well, today started off a little groggier than I was hoping, as I hadn’t gotten a good night’s sleep. However, I soldiered on to Graphics (a.k.a. 3D Photography) and had the next instalment. There are some people in my (rather small) class that have been doing research in this area and so on… some very bright cookies. I’m looking forward to being able to learn from them. Chris also turned up in this class as well, although I was talking to him about it and he doesn’t know whether or not he can handle the course on top of his other classes and work and so on, so I suspect he’ll be in either Vision of Graphics, but not both. Perhaps he’ll do both. Anyway…

I skipped the Colloquium today in favour of having lunch, a hot shower and doing some work back at my apartment for a while. After that I went out to an event put on by Sun Microsystems (the guys who brought us Java, undergraduate language favourite of Universities worldwide) which had free food, some of the usual software freebies and a two-hour presentation on the latest software technologies out of Sun. This turned out to be almost terminally uninteresting, as the guy giving the presentation didn’t know a lot of what he was doing, which came across as very condescending to a room full of people that were Computer Scientists or Electrical Engineers, and he’s up there making a very, very basic “Hello Web/World” application using the IDE. I think there were a few minutes I was almost dozing off. Luckily the person I sat next to, Jenny, had a wicked sense of humour and we both entertained each other with quiet comments and expressions, then notes towards the end. We saved each other from the tedium. Jenny’s a junior majoring in CSE and minoring in Chemistry here at UW and was definitely a good sort. I didn’t (stupidly, in hindsight) press her for any of her details, as I would like to talk to her again. I did, however, tell her where my office was and told her to stop by, which she said she would do at some point. An email address may have been helpful. Ah well. Maybe I’ll run into her or something.

After that I came back to my apartment, got myself some Cranberry-Apple and settled in to do some work. I made some really good progress, listened to some cranking music and ploughed through some things I wanted to do. I also fired off some emails and did a little catch up on my blogging. After that I settled in and watched some Spider-man cartoons then went to sleep.