January 10th 2024. Woke up okay, a minute before my alarm would go off, got ready around 9:12. Had a turkey egg lettuce sandwich for breakfast. Made coffee around 11:20, on the AeroPress, 18g + 300ml, Alan Adler's recipe, lots and lots of bypass water. The coffee tasted much much smoother. Drove to campus, it got really rainy on one section of the freeway and then cleared up, but that was a real splatter-splutter on the window. Arrived at campus, parking lot still very busy and crowded, went up to the second floor, parked under the ceiling. (Parked outside on the open overhang yesterday. No damage to the car of course, just rainwater, but I'd rather keep my car inside.) Walked around the ATC and the student center before class, guy came up to me about Bible studies, I obliged and asked for contact information but didn't follow up the rest of the day. Walked back to the photography classroom, A65, and headed in after Prof. Teng. The "classroom" was very small. Very small and cozy, with lots of small seat desks. The building had a few hallways, lots of doors and small rooms, a big darkroom, the small cozy classroom, and a washroom. We made lumen prints in the sun with some photographic paper. I brought a flower I had snipped from our front yard bushes. The actual wooden contact frames were very stiff and not fun to use, but I made it work. As we waited for the lumen prints to develop, we checked out the darkroom and the wash room, and then picked up our lumen prints and developed them in the aforementioned rooms. Mr. Chia (pronounced Chai I think) was a stern man from the get-go and I'd rather not talk to him more than necessary; trial by fire; I'll stick to the rain. Class wrapped up around 2:42, I headed out, swung by the dining hall and bought a 6-inch pastrami sandwich. Had a little communication difficulty, and the worker/employee seemed a little slow; not to mention that she didn't put many veggies on. Wasn't a fan. Headed outside, sat at a shaded table, had the sandwich over an episode of Futurama. Drove home, still a little rainy, traffic was bad because of the merges and the rain, but not 45 minutes. Maybe 28 - 30 min. Got home, didn't really do much homework but I did turn in the lab work and the discussion page. Didn't get a chance to add much to the Hemera slipbox but I did read more Luhmann. The thing I was interested in was that Rabbit R1 that's been plastered all over the tech news outlets. I'm very very tempted to preorder it. Very very tempted. The design has good pop, and functionality seems rich enough, but there's always a catch here. Privacy? Integration? Workflow issues? Repeating industry mistakes? (Apparently there will be a 'rabbit store' of behaviors and activities that you can purchase from other users. Isn't that just another app store?) Needs internet connection. Works on Wi-Fi but you'll want cellular on the go. Also not a smartphone replacement, though that's a motif of "dumbphones" also. A phone for your phone. Though in this case it's more like a super iPod for your phone.
"[Growing up] is hard and nobody understands." // https://www.homestuck.com/story/2391