Today

Rewind. These last forty-eight hours have been a flurry. Spent nearly nine hours yesterday editing all seventy-five pages of our final Capstone report, spending 5PM-1AM in the company of the INFO crew (minus the Koalafire folks) in the lab, followed by nearly three hours of prepping the course deliverables (i.e. printing). Ended the night off around 4AM after we finished running through our presentation slides, grateful for the upcoming three hours sleep.

Right around here would be a good spot for me to reflect on our last late night crunch in the TE lab with the INFO crew and the completion of this final epic INFO group project. You know, ponder the finality of it and reflect on all the fond memories I have of crazy crazy nights like these. But I don’t think I can muster the brainpower at the the moment. Insert nostalgia + exhaustion + intense conflicting desire to sleep and go out for pancakes.

But since I blog to chronicle these adventures for my own archival purposes, I’m gonna slap a read more tag here and call it cake. What? Did I really write that? Haha

Yesterday at 7am Trevor and I went out and bought dougnuts for IUGA to bring to class for Day 1 of final Capstone presentations. 8:30am-noon: watching said presentations. Afterward it was lunch at Las Coronas with the INFO crew on the Ave. Angie tells me she saw us walking there and noted the pack size we move in. So true.

After an excellent $5.25 lunch tacquito meal, it was off to econ where my prof made up some more variables (alpha = animal spirits of entrepreneurs, yeah!). After class, between 4pm – 10pm writing sections of our Capstone report. Somewhere in between there, I met up with Val at a chai lounge (to write) and we mosied back to my place so she could eat my leftovers. It was good to see her even though my nose was buried in my iBook and I was grumpy as hell.

Today started similarly early, when I awoke at 7:10am and made it to my 7:30am shift at the lab. There I finished writing my CSCW review papers that were due that morning and started editing the appendix of the Capstone report.

<muffin_tangent> At 10:30am I left to search for a cinnamon muffin. After visitng three coffee stands on campus, I found myself holding an orange glazed scone, slightly bitter at barista #1 who lied and sold me a raspberry muffin, irritated that my Husky Card was out of money at coffee stand #2, and taken aback that all the cinnamon muffins at coffee place #3 were under-baked and doughy warranting my return. </muffin_tangent>

Then it was two hours of INFO 447. This week’s reading on the challenges of CSCW sucked. Well Grudin’s paper was alright. But man. From there it was lunch at the HUB with the guys and then back to work. From about 2PM – 8PM I edited our Capstone report before I left the lab with Trevor, Ryan, Anthony, Tho, and David for some Best of Bento dinner. BOB dinner = tempura, potstickers, salad, rice. Red bean ice cream = win. /me thinks of leftovers.

Then it was back to the TE lab for a few more hours of report editing. We left the TE lab around 1am with Team Turtles to print off our final Capstone reports and posters. 1am to 4am – printing and prepping the deliverables with my partners along with Ryan, Anthony, Tho, David and his girl Teresa. We had to print five copies each report and project poster to distribute to the class. It may not sound like much, but when your final report is 75-pages long, it can easily become a small feat.

Oh. Then around 4-something we ran through our slides to prep for the morning’s Day 2 of final capstone presentations. Yeah, what…a…night.