It has been a while since I last voluntarily spent excess time at Concordia. I headed over around noon for a SGA committee meeting. I don't remember how I got myself involved. Anyway, we are rewriting the student government constitution. (Normally I could not care less about student government, but this way I have a chance to stick it to Res Life.) Besides, the meeting is held in the library, and I can get real work done in the library.
After the meeting, I found a table in the library and started working. I read a couple of books on Machine Learning, one on Ausperger's Syndrome, one on Digital Video compression, one on Jesuit education, and part of Watership Downs.
Sometime during the book reading, I started listening to the CDs from the library's music collection. Eventually I came to Bach's Goldberg Variations. The Variations seem to have a calming, ordering effect on my mind.
I managed to write a trivial bit of python that pulls some data from a SGML file and stuffs it into a BSD Database. It is a lot easier to work with the data when it is all in one consistent place.
Shortly after that, this person nearby started talking on her cell phone. Atmosphere disrupted, I gathered my things and wandered over to the CS area.
I found Andy in CS playing Morrowind. He was hungry and the cafeteria had just closed, so we wandered over to the big lounge. Andy grabbed a burrito for him and a pop-tart for me. We wandered back to CS so Andy could heat his burrito in the microwave in Rob's office. Rob was playing Halo. I read random old papers on the bookshelf while Andy watched Rob's game. Eventually Rob had to leave to go meet Michelle. Andy and I wandered down for my once a semester visit to The Haven.