Well, I actually managed to get some sleep again. I’m rather enjoying that whole sleeping thing. Anyway. I got up, went through the usual start-the-day stuff, agonized over my graphics homework a little more, then headed into university. I’m not particularly happy with the homework, there was a lot of mathematical stuff I didn’t fully understand how it applied or how to prove it. If anyone that reads this understands interpolating function proofs, convolutions and Fourier transforms, email me and let me know. Next up I printed off my homework and headed to Graphics. Today we had a substitute lecturer, as Brian is away in Europe. It was supposed to be the TA, but the TA is still sick. This guy wasn’t particularly good, he kept skipping over all kinds of stuff saying he just didn’t remember, that kind of thing. I suspect that when Brian gets back he’s going to have to go over a lot of the same material, or at the very least field a lot of questions from the students.

After that I had a bit of a brief discussion with some of my classmates about the next project (which was apparently assigned today), which will be done in pairs. We all need to sort out which groups and so on. Rob’s gonna scout out who’s already in pairs and email Mario and I and then we’ll see how it turns out! This next project is going to be creating a ray-tracing program, which should be pretty fun.

After that I walked over to the Communications building, which was a good opportunity to expand my knowledge of the campus a tiny bit. Since most of my classes are in the CSE building, or the EE building which is adjoining, I don’t actually walk around the campus a whole lot, and it’s a beautiful campus. The reason I walked over to Communications is that I’m going to a guest seminar that I was alerted to via the FIUTS email newsletter on the political and economic correlation in Japan over the past decade or so. Sounded really interesting, so off I went. I was a bit early, only two people in the room, so I got out my laptop and started my blog entry for the day. The room gradually filled up (probably a capacity of no more than 50 or 60) and filled with the noise and hubbub that is people meeting up again, exchanging greetings and so on. Kinda nice to hear a soft buzz in Japanese as well. The seminar was pretty interesting overall, some fascinating stuff. I don’t know that I’d want a degree in it, but interesting nonetheless.

After that I went back to my apartment, sat down and started doing my emails. This ended up involving a lot of work as well as some stuff which was (apparently) reasonably urgent. I did some work, managed to talk to Ric for a bit about work stuff, talked to Anastasia just before she went to bed… the work stuff was a bit of a pain in the ass to be honest, as they were doing the usual client thing of “I want all kinds of things done pretty much now”, which can be frustrating.

Anyway, I went and had a shower (and had Aidan walk in on me on the way out of the shower), then got some food. While I was eating I turned on the television (on my computer, heh) and watched some of the Late Show. Coincidentally he happened to be interviewing Scarlett Johansson (of Horse Whisperer and Lost in Translation fame) for that segment. Phwaw. Gorgeous, talented and my age (I’m older by 3 weeks) as well. ^_~

Yeah, right.

Anyway, after that I read over some papers for my classes tomorrow then discovered that I did, in fact, bring my diary from last year, which meant that I could copy a lot of birthdays across to this year’s diary. I’m sorry for not wishing anyone a happy birthday when I was supposed to, I’m terrible with birthdays and everyone knows it. I know I’m still missing a lot of people’s from when I lost my diary, so do email me and let me know when your birthday is, I like being able to wish you a happy birthday when I can.

Anyway, after that it was a bit of reading in bed to relax, then sleep.