TIFU by not reminding my SO that I was in virtual class on Zoom & making him think I was dumping him

Obligatory \*this didn't actually  happen today\* but about a week ago.

For context, I'm a part time graduate student - I've been working from home full  time and have class via zoom two nights a week since my University has gone entirely online due to COVID-19.

I live with my boyfriend of a year, who is an essential worker (he's a paramedic), so he is still going to work 5-6 days a week, 12 hours a day.

I have class Wednesday & Thursday nights from 5:30 - 8 pm. Last week, just so happens that his day off is a Wednesday, when typically it's a Saturday or Monday. He does know I do virtual class, but is never actually around for it, so it makes sense that he forgot.

He spent his Wednesday off playing video games in the living room while I moved my home office to the bedroom for the day, figuring I'd just stay in there come class time & shut the door. I never mentioned to him that this was my plan, because as much as he forgot I do virtual class, I forgot that he wouldn't know I was doing virtual class.

I know many students who aren't doing actual virtual class sessions, but just keeping up with work online, but since I'm in a master's program, my classes are small enough that we can all turn on our video and talk to each other, which is actually really nice to see everyone.

So on this particular evening, 5:30 rolled around, so I shut the bedroom door and started up the Zoom meeting. I made the beginners mistake of having my back face the door so the doorway was in full view of my video. I did this because if I turned the other way, my back would be facing a window which gets full sunlight so it would've washed my face out completely. Even if I faced any other direction it would've washed out half my face, which is why I faced the complete opposite direction. If I had closed the blinds, the video would have been too dark. So you can see how this was the best solution in my head!

I was about 30 minutes into class - and we were talking about a topic that bores me a lot, so I wasn't participating much, just listening.  I texted my boyfriend (who was still in the other room playing video games), and said "I'm so over this" meaning, I was bored with class and wanted it to be done.

About 15 seconds later, the door bursts open, my boyfriend is shirtless & in bright orange boxers and he goes "what's wrong?!?! why are you upset?!?!" Of course I immediately panicked because my entire class saw, and I started to see them burst out laughing, but I couldn't wait around for it to continue so I abruptly turned off my video.

I had myself muted so they didn't hear what he said, so all they saw was a tall lanky man in fluorescent orange underwear burst into my bedroom.

Turns out, my boyfriend didn't realize I was in class, but HAD noticed that I shut the bedroom door and had been in there for 30 minutes. He assumed I was upset about something but that I'd come talk about it when I was ready. When I texted him "I'm so over this" he thought I was referring to our relationship and that I wanted to break up with him! I gave him a heart attack!

When I explained to him we laughed for a solid 10 minutes about it and sometimes when I think about it still cracks me up. When I logged back into class I apologized profusely through laughter to my professor and classmates, but luckily we're all so close it wasn't QUITE as embarrassing as it would've been if I was in a work meeting. I still am not quite sure I'll ever live it down though, and from now on I promised my boyfriend I'd warn him if I was in class or in a Zoom meeting.  I'm considering even making a sign for the door that says "Zoom Meeting in Progress, Enter at Your Own Risk".

tl;dr was in a virtual grad school class, didn't warn my boyfriend and also sent a cryptic text message that scared the crap out of him - resulting in my whole class seeing his package outline through fluorescent orange underwear.

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