In sum, we spent almost seven hours poring over our LArch 1 project. I did the pre-final editing - what fansubbers would call typesetting - and wrote part of the script. Jeck lent his voice for the dubbed parts. Michael lent his music-mixing skills, honed from years with a world-renowned choir. Reg left early, but did a great job tweaking our amateur videos all the same. Nike and Alvin discussed things like al fresco dining, bubble fountains, and sinusoidal patterns. And Anina did odd-jobs - this task entailed impromptu entertainment, of course.
I've never had to work this much for a group project before. To be honest, I've never truly worked in a group before. I don't study, much less engage in group studying, and I prefer being left alone with a book or my computer. But today was fun. It was eye-watering, neck-straining, back-breaking hardcore fun. I'd never imagined working with other people - all of you able to contribute something significant to the final product - could be satisfying.
Even after Reg and Nike had already left, we were still at it with our lazy bantering. Michael was trying to leech flash games from my collection, while I tried to convince him that was a bad idea because Lavinia hasn't been exposed to anti-virus systems for three years. Jeck was tutoring Alvin and Anina how to best hit their target in that dratted viral game, Angry Birds. The lesson ended with Alvin feeling very bad because he couldn't defeat the pigs. (They are pigs, right? The opponents in Angry Birds?)
We parted, minutes and a few more words past four, tired, hungry, nursing mild headaches. My time might have been better spent working on that group paper for PI100, or writing my revised drafts for CW10. But I had fun. Tiring fun.
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