01:43:26 Tuesday November 09 2004
Today was Monday as usual. I went to class and I met with my CS541 partner (Brian).

After lunch I met with the ombudsman (Dr Tom Atkinson) to discuss the disagreement that my department and I are having right now. He was very nice and used all the appropriate little psychological tricks to make me "feel that I was being heard". Not that he didn't genuinely want to hear me out, but the conflict management courses were obviously in full effect. I told him my story, and he is going to make a few calls to the department. We will see if they are willing to listen, or if they will become aggravated.

I worked on the Database project a bit more in the afternoon, and then went out to the LBC to celebrate an Arxan birthday. I tried to get some more work done on the database project after dinner, but my mind just wasn't there. Eventually I gave up and returned home.