Category Archives: Life

Wedding, TOC, and Foo

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I haven’t updated this in a while. I suppose I should.

This past weekend I went to the wedding of one of Greg’s undergrad friends. It was the first wedding I’d been to in a while… and it was beautiful. The reception was held at a playground, which was quite possibly the best idea ever… we swung on the swings and climbed the jungle gym between food. Some people played frisbee.
They had a wedding pie instead of a wedding cake (pecan-pumpkin wedding pie!) and it was quite tasty.
Overall, it was a very nice experience.

I came back on Sunday and almost immediately headed to Tech Sunday. The entire thing was such a waste of time… the presentations didn’t really tell me anything I didn’t already know, and the networking session was a disaster… companies only sent a single recruiter so I ended up waiting in line for Yahoo! for over an hour and a half only to be turned away when the event ended before reaching the front. There were also generally rude and pushy people who cut in line and it made the entire experience hellish for me.
I suppose overall it wasn’t as bad as Microsoft’s info session last Wednesday and I actually came home and cried after. I hate large crowds of people. I hate large crowds of people in confined spaces. I hate large crowds of rude, pushy people in confined places. Meh.

Today was the TOC. I was not looking forward to it… this entire job search thing for me hasn’t gone terribly well, and I think I’m sick of being in a sea of people.
Nevertheless, it didn’t go terribly… I wish more companies would be interested in me, but meh, that is life.

OS P1 went decently. I had it done on Friday, did a bit more tweaking and debugging before the deadline yesterday. Wheee.

Break

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You know you love your job when you wake up on the first day of your break (I’m off of work until next Monday) and find yourself wishing you were going into work today.
Relatedly, last night’s build broke. It might be my fault, but I have no way of checking as to *what* broke the build from home. As such, I’m hoping I don’t get a chicken in my email, or I’ll have to go in and fix the build.

Woke up at 7:30 like usual this morning and couldn’t get back to sleep (I fail at this “sleeping in” thing). As a result, I’ve been lurking around teh intarwebs and posting photos. The galleries from Colorado, Twins Days, Toronto, and playfair are now up. Whee!






So yeah, nothing much has been going on in my life besides work, food, and sleep… which I suppose is why I haven’t been posting lately. I’m really happy though. Whee. Life has been full of awesome.

I don’t know what I’m going to do with these three whole days I have to myself. I should probably work on Student Wars v2 and/or CMU Adventures (does anyone actually play that anymore?).

I have the urge to do random portraits. Does anyone want to model for me?

Toronto day 3

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Today has been spent traveling the city by subway and streetcar, which has been awesome. I love the public transportation system here… you’re literally waiting 2 minutes or less for a subway or streetcar, no matter where you’re going.

America’s drinking age of 21 is dumb. Booze is good. I had a rum and cola with lunch today (and was tempted to order some triple sec with orange juice or something) at a pub, and went to a liquor store and bought some orange/pineapple wine to have with the leftover brie as a snack. I also have a bottle of hard raspberry lemonade in the fridge awaiting sometime when I’ve had fewer than 2.5 drinks in a half hour.
Drinking is good. Drinking in excess is not. I think this is something a lot of college students need to figure out. Meh.
In any case, I haven’t gotten carded once while here. I guess I look significantly older than 19.

Tonight (rather soon, actually), we’ll take the ferry to the island south of Toronto and hang around there a bit, hopefully getting photos of the sunset.
There will be plenty of piccars posted to photos 2 eventually.

Toronto day 2

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Today was spent walking around Toronto, visiting various places.
We walked a few miles to a park that was recommended by the local “things to do” paper only to be highly disappointed. The plants were mostly dried up and dying, there were weeds everywhere, and the fountain things that were recommended weren’t all that interesting. Then we walked around the Chinatown area and found a bunch of really cheap fruits and vegetables (tomatoes at $0.15 each… a thing of strawberries for $1…).
We also found something that lambert would love: a cheese store. That resulted in us deciding to have a dinner of (imported French) brie on crackers and fresh mozzarella with tomato with strawberries and green tea ($0.79/box)… all for about $4/person.

We’re heading to the ROM (Royal Ontario Museum) later tonight to browse their exhibits, and tomorrow will probably be spent travelling the city by streetcar and visiting the island via ferry.

Toronto day 1

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Wheee, I am in Toronto.
The drive up was mostly uneventful, except for some periods where it rained really hard, and except for a couple Budget moving trucks that seemed intent to prevent Greg from passing them… at one point, they quickly merged into the same lane to let a few cars pass, and then very quickly cut him off. Meh. In any case, we lost them in traffic (finally), so yay.


Yay for the legal drinking age being lower here. I want to go have a legal drink sometime before I leave.