授業に行かないこと

I didn't set the alarm last night when I went to bed about 12:30, assuming that I'd wake up maybe around 9:30 or 10. Fact is I woke up at 10:50, looked at the clock, and saw I had to be out of the building in 20 minutes if I wanted to make it to Tate on time, and really it'd be better if I could get out more like 11:05. Then about 11 I realized I needed to check what room my discussion was in, and its in Folwell, not Tate. So, I kept on getting ready, knowing I'd be a few minutes late. However, by the time I was ready to get out the door, it was already 11:15, meaning I'd be 15 minutes late to a 50 minute class, which just seemed rude... So I decided to skip discussion and go to the 12:20 lab (which is more important that lecture or discussion).
Did I make the wrong decision? Did the importance of my going to all classes because that's basically what causes me to fail classes overweigh the rudeness of missing a third of class?
Well, at least now I can get some calories before standing on my feet for two hours.

*does some reading before lab*

Physics Lab and Linguistics Textbook Bath

Grr... I can't find my class notes from yesterday... Good thing they didn't really matter, anyway. ^^;
Lab went well today. I believe our T.A., Yen-Hsiang Lin, is Chinese or Taiwanese. (Can anyone recognize that name?) His spoken English is quite good, and he doesn't have much of an accent, so I won't have any trouble understanding him. I must say, though, I have to smile a bit when he says "to ...-tion" ("begin to calibration"). ^_^
My current group members, Mai and Michael, are nice, too. Mai's a pre-pharmacy major, and Michael's mechanical engineering, if I remember correctly.
Popped up to yumenohoshi's after class to get my DVD folders, and it turns out my linguistics textbook was there. Thank goodness! I thought I'd have to buy it again, which woulda sucked, even if it was only $25. I'm kinda wondering how much I'll like the class, though. The textbook, at least, seems to be focused more towards TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language) folks and what teaching methods are best than going into depth as to theories of how we learn languages. Obviously the two are intimately connected, and to ignore teaching theories would do injustice to studying learning theory, but... I dunno. I should wait until I actually read the book and take the class before I judge.
Anyways, I should get to work now.

P.S. Getting surprise tea leaves in your mouth is funny.