A rather annoying day

I woke up at 10 after spending most of the night watching the Matrix trilogy. I was pretty sure my day would be nice and simple, with nothing important to do besides paying a visit to my old Physics teacher. It was very annoying, when I realised, at around 11:30, that I was one and a half hours late for a seminar that I had registered for and was under obligation to go for. Well done, Andy! Well done indeed!
I really need to get serious and start carrying round a planner! Las time I tried it, it worked perfectly! That is until I misplaced it at my aunt's place. Not the cleverest thing I've done, certainly, but not the stupidest either.
The seminar was for potential Peer Counsellors in the university. A group of people who volunteer to help freshmen get used to the incredibly fast and annoying university life. And boy, is the university life fast! It's like a car that runs on NOS alone! There's only one speed: FAST!
The seminar is a two day intensive course thingy where we sit in a circle in a room and talk about what we should and shouldn't do and what to do and what not to do with the freshmen. And, like all seminars on such topics, we should get to know each other and stuff and for some reason it seems that people thing "nametag" is the best way to do that. I have nothing against it. In fact, if the nametags are in the form of stickers, I LOVE to play the idiot, who sticks his nametag on his forehead. Classic. Simply classic. At least nobody will be able to say that they didn't see my nametag (sSomething that seems to happen a lot with every OTHER place the nametagsare put)... Aside from the relatively long (but much shorter than what I'm used to...) talks about stuff I already knew about public speeking and getting to know new people, it was pretty fun! I made a handful of new aqcuaintances and there was free food.

Afterwards, I went back to the robotics lab at the university to try and finish off my project. The most unbelievable thing happened. I soldered an Infra-Red receiver onto an AVR Butterfly, turned the Butterfly on and..... nothing. The damn thing simply didn't work anymore. I don't need to say how annoying that was. So now I have an Infra-Red receiver on an AVR Butterfly that doesn't work! I still need to program some blasted remote's protocol onto the Butterfly in question so that it can do something smart when you shoot a telly remote at it and the thing picks NOW of all BLASTED times to STOP WORKING!!! Oh, and did I mention that the Butterfly isn't mine? Great. Simply great. There's nothing I can add to that.

I think that's enough ranting for the day. What to look out for tomorrow: a visit to the physics teacher, tutoring a stranger, getting an angry e-mail from my professor regarding the Butterfly and... er... oh, yeah, the seminar's second part!