Time Zones
Up until right now, my blog's times were for the NZDT time zone, not EST. I haven't been in New Zealand for over a year. Oops!Laboratory
The CIS*2750 lab on Thursday went better than the lab the week before. I gave better examples, and it felt great. I also gave cookies. James was able to come into the lab a little early to make sure the computers were going to work this time. There were lots of questions, and I felt more helpful than normal. Hooray!Cookies
I had baked cookies to pay a debt to my sushi hero. They were delicious. My usual recipe + mint chocolate.
TA Meeting
The TA-professor meeting didn't go as smoothly. I didn't think to print the test plan I had generated in advance, so the professor had to during the meeting. I still had a lot of questions about things, so they got sorted out there. The professor had asked earlier why I felt the need to see the internals of the programme to create a black-box test plan. It's true that I shouldn't need to, that I should be able to go straight from the spec. However, the spec would have just remained an abstract concept in my head in this case, especially when trying to help students understand their problems. Also, having my own partial implementation has helped me test the automarker (which implements the proposed test plan). In the end, all is well.Peterborough and Algonquin
My girlfriend and I went to Peterborough for Friday night. How I can justify the time is beyond me :D Actually, I had planned to do some work from there, but it marked the second time I visited someone from Algonquin who didn't seem to have Internet. Strange fact: there are still some young, non-impoverished people in the world who don't use a computer or the Internet much.My girlfriend had worked in Algonquin over the summer and made many friends and acquaintances. In this case, we ferried three others along with us in a car pool who were coming from Guelph. The evening was spent among perhaps 18 people talking, eating snacks, not eating non-vegetarian food, eating dessert, and going to an Elliott Brood performance which was very loud. The band before them, The Avenue (I think), suffered from that all-too-common problem of "too loud for the speakers so the sound goes to static". I did a neat thing twirling my straw in an empty cup, but I don't think anyone noticed. People banged ladles against pot lids.
Afterwards, there was pizza from The Night Kitchen. I strongly recommend this pizzeria to anyone near Peterborough. I got a slice of pizza that had hot peppers and tangerine slices (or some similar citrus). Wow.
In the morning, we ran to The Planet bakery which might be vegetarian-only, which was wonderful. The food was a bit slow coming, but then there were 10 of us. The food was also fantastic. I had a spicy breakfast burrito. The Firefox spell-checking dictionary doesn't recognise burrito, or Firefox. Most people enjoyed a French toast stuffed with brie cheese. $2 was spent on parking on a day when parking was free, hehe.
Afterward, there was more conversation among Algonquinites and the observation of frogs and cardinals. After that we went to the Riverview Park and Zoo, a free attraction that featured yaks, lemurs, a bobcat, a cougar, servals, a tiny type of monkey, turtles!, snakes, a camel and turkeys, among a few other things. It was exciting. OH, and seals.
From there, we went to meet others for a film, True Grit, but my girlfriend, an Algonquinite and I defected from the trend and went to see No Strings Attached which ended up being surprisingly enjoyable. (I didn't expect it to be bad, mind you.) Thereby I drank a recommended wild berry smoothie from Yogen Früz which was surprisingly bad. (I had expected it to be enjoyable, mind you.)
Then, on to Matsu Sushi after some coordination difficulties. What magical sushi they had. There were a few vegetarian varieties I had never tried before, as well as one that featured BANANA. What?! Afterward, the group finally separated and we went our separate ways, only bringing one Guelphite back home with us.
Yay, blogaway. It may contend your desire to work earnestly, but hey, you'll have a record of your earnest work and play. And cookie production:consumption ratio. ;)
ReplyDeleteI am pretty sure there would have been internet available at our host's place if it had been asked after, but I was enjoying the respite from the digital realm, and you didn't inquire. (Also, I did notice the twirling straw.)
Heeheh, Firefox is not self-referential?
Thank you for the doting. :)