M's Birthday

On Thursday, March 3rd, I drove to Oakville to get M out of work early (again). We drove to Waterloo as she tried to guess to what event I was taking her based on a few clues. She guessed it when she read a sentence in a notebook I gave her, but I continued to pretend she was wrong and I think she was actually starting to doubt again by the time we arrived.

We went to the CUBE Bioengineering Symposium 2005: The Role of the Bioengineer for the 21st Century. This was a series of talks about, well, bioengineering. M was actually part of the team that organized the event last semester, but didn't think she'd be able to actually attend.

While most of the presentations weren't actually bad, they could have been much better. Personally, I found the presentation on tissue engineering by Dr. Michael Sefton to be the most interesting. Dr. Sefton spoke about his research on growing replacement organic hearts, and showed a video of tissue "beating" in a dish that was simply amazing.

After the seminar, we went to M's student house to visit her brother and her roommate. After spending some time there, her, Steven and I went out for dinner (a second dinner for M and I) at Mel's Diner. After finding out it was M's birthday, the waiter brought her a huge version of the traditional Mini Mel.

We took Steven home, headed to my place so I could pack an overnight bag, and then went to Mississauga for the night.