I haven't seen Van Hellsing yet, actually, but from what I have heard it is either long, but good or long, and bad. Either way it was long, which was the entire basis of this analogy. See, the CSUMB Spring Formal was tonight, and I knew I couldn't go with Tessa since she had work. So, I decided to bring the formal to her. Before I go too much further, allow me to deviate a bit.
I am a sucker for affection, and I like being romantic. It isn't so much the romance as it is the reaction. It isn't the 11 roses you give someone, it is the 12th they find after they have forgotten they got 11 before. It isn't the first song you play on your three month anniversary, but the third song which is the same song you first played for her. The reaction is the sign of genuine appreciation; it's the reason I do it. It is pure coincidence that the ideas often take on a romantic slant. Anyway, back to the blog and away from the introspection. Exit is on your left.
So Tessa had to work the night of the formal, I decided to bring some of formal to her. I got into her room about 8:30 or so, set up 7 candles, a CD with slow dance music, and settled in to wait. I knew I wouldn't have been able to get into the room any closer to when she was done with work, so I simply had to make due with waiting. When you are nervous and anxious, two hours feels like a small eternity; twice over, and with probably a few years to spare. Time did pass though, and eventually I got to play a song and ask for a slow dance amidst candlelight. And then we did laundry and surfed Gaia. There's a lot more to it, but we'll just keep the fun stuff in. And that brings us to today, full of nothing other than a mock-presentation at 4 that will have me going over another approach to my Senior Capstone. Instead of a linear approach, I moved to a more abstract metaphorical level. Since apparently the "NetProject is a project manager for a Content Management system; let me tell you what a content management system is first" approach is too technical, I have adopted the new strategy. It goes like this:
"NetProject is a thing that hooks into a bigger thing, and it lets you do stuff like manage projects. See, it's all like a puzzle, only at the middle is Xoops and on the outside are like little pieces of the bigger puzzle. NetProject is like one of those pieces, and it like does the project management stuff."
No joke, that's how inverted of an approach I have to make. It would be so nice to present this in an environment where people knew what a content management system was and knew what a project manager was. We have a room full of computer science majors that don't know what either is, making this a very, very tough presentation to try and make in 7-8 minutes.
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