Two Difficult Days
The two days since the long weekend have been difficult.

Yesterday, while entering my Networking Theory class about 20 minutes late, it occurred to me that people were writing a midterm. I had no idea that there was a test scheduled. Due to the familiar subject matter, I probably achieved a decent score anyway. Later that evening, staying awake through the music elective was difficult.

Today, nothing went quite right. My morning lab was excruciatingly boring Object Constraint Language. Later, trying to finish my IC design I was stuck on a stupid PSPICE error for two hours. I didn't manage to solve it either. Then I skipped the silly Software Engineering class (yay, more OCL!). A four hour meeting in the evening was unentertaining; thankfully I brought a wireless access point with me.

The most interesting event of the day was in the morning, when someone discovered a small package full of white powder. Of course, the Hazardous Materials squadron was called in, as well as the Ottawa Police Explosives Unit. As the photo shows, there were at least two firetrucks, two ambulances, two police cruisers, a special police truck, and Carleton police vehicles. In the end, it turned out that someone accidentally left a packet of flour after performing experiments on various scaled-down thermo-dynamic storage containers, designed as part of an engineering design project. I, for one, was amused.