This one fool was all online making his website for class, and it was only two days to go till our group, which included me, him, Sarah and Tilly, had to do the presentation for Wire 114, which was half of our grade for the whole frickin' semester.
I put my hand inside the screen of his laptop and waved it back and forth. The hand icon on the screen appeared and got his attention.
From inside, he ejected himself out of the laptop and back on to the chair, next to me, in the science building.
"How much longer is taht website gonna take you?"
He answered "Regardless of how long it's gonna take me, I still have no idea what to do for the project. It's a whole lot more sound of a plan if you just go ahead and do it with Tilly. You guys are the one taking the lead and trying to dominate."
I didn't want to get stuck in arguing about who was or wasn't expressing dominance; and I did know what he was getting at. But it's just that I'm focused on getting this done and making sure we reference every source for this Wire project.
"Just tell me what have you left for the website."
He leaned his head back. "Converting some of the old XML and HTML to 3d, writing the genes for the pigs and flowers, and figuring out how to increase interactivity for the other students."
"Okay, I can help with that, I think. So, did you go to the outline I made on the class site?"
"I went by it yesterday, on the way to my email. But it's still kind of vague to me."
Of course. That's what we all do. Instead of aggressively attacking the subject, breaking it down piece by piece, we just get deflected and cruise on by to something already accessible. I pictured him, in his laptop, walking past the outline and giving up so easily, and then checking his email to see what new places had been sent to him. Probably the kind of second to second updates to social network parks and cities that those other people spent their time with.
I said to Luke, still anxious to dive back into his laptop, "Anyways, the first thing we have to do is to go see examples of wires, in person."
So obvious, and what everyone tried to work their little brains around. Just going and seeing the damn things we were supposed to be learning about in Class.
But again, it was vague, and there was no readily accessible connection to wires for most students, so they just glazed over and retreated to the familiar.
I didn't like Wire class either. They were stupid little pieces of metal and copper. Minor points of technology in the vast and ecerp expanding univers. little bits of dust that had accumulated on the library of universal knowledge.
But I had to get through the class, had to attack the subject and break it down until my brain diegested every bit and I could own the subject.
I realized Luke had just said "Okay, where's the closest hard site with a wire exhibit."
I had already looked it up. "There's one in Carson. You live in Long Beach, right? That's on the way."
I put took all my books and shoved them back into my laptop and said "Let's go."
