This week in Deanna's history
Well, I just posted my big Seattle entry. It's friends-only, so if you're not on my friends list and really want to read it, let me know. (It's long. You don't really want to read it unless you're like one of three people who might have sat through the story in person as well, or if you are one of the people I visited last weekend.)
Today I'm supposed to play D&D in the UC with Carl. Except, I didn't realize it until I woke up half an hour ago - today is the first day of precollege and governor's school, so there's no way we'll have space in the UC. Heh. I gotta get going soon to walk there and meet people and see where we ARE playing, though...
...speaking of which, I guess this week is sort of an important week for me in a bunch of ways:
1) 9 years ago this week I came to CMU as a Governor's School student myself. That summer changed my life... I went from being a wayward nerd with no real self-esteem to a slightly outgoing smart girl who actually felt like she had a lot of self-worth. (This turned into a total outgoing CMU CS chick a year later.) Some of the people I met that summer I still keep in touch with (and then there are some that I don't really, but who are still on my horizons - take![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
wanderingpixie for example). Man. That was the best summer of my life, in a lot of ways. I liked it enough to come back as a TA three times, after all.
1a) Not thatnmr8 really reads LJ that often, but, I wonder if he's remembering this week 6 years ago when we first met at PGSS '96... and I guess the other two summers of PGSS as well were inaugural in their own ways.
2) Two years ago I played DDR for the first time on the 4th of July, withts4z, at the now-infamous Sunnyvale Golfland. I remember it well. We played Have you Never Been Mellow and looked silly, then Boom Boom Dollar and looked sillier, and I think we failed Butterfly. But... it was fun. If that bunch of Asian kids hadn't come around the corner towards the machine, we might have even played a second game. :)
3) Three years ago this week I stopped working at the SEI, went to Texas for a week, hung out withzml and bk1e and saw donutjay and many other people. And then I came back and started working at Claritech, which also vastly changed my life in tons of ways.
Today I'm supposed to play D&D in the UC with Carl. Except, I didn't realize it until I woke up half an hour ago - today is the first day of precollege and governor's school, so there's no way we'll have space in the UC. Heh. I gotta get going soon to walk there and meet people and see where we ARE playing, though...
...speaking of which, I guess this week is sort of an important week for me in a bunch of ways:
1) 9 years ago this week I came to CMU as a Governor's School student myself. That summer changed my life... I went from being a wayward nerd with no real self-esteem to a slightly outgoing smart girl who actually felt like she had a lot of self-worth. (This turned into a total outgoing CMU CS chick a year later.) Some of the people I met that summer I still keep in touch with (and then there are some that I don't really, but who are still on my horizons - take
wanderingpixie for example). Man. That was the best summer of my life, in a lot of ways. I liked it enough to come back as a TA three times, after all. 1a) Not that
nmr8 really reads LJ that often, but, I wonder if he's remembering this week 6 years ago when we first met at PGSS '96... and I guess the other two summers of PGSS as well were inaugural in their own ways.2) Two years ago I played DDR for the first time on the 4th of July, with
ts4z, at the now-infamous Sunnyvale Golfland. I remember it well. We played Have you Never Been Mellow and looked silly, then Boom Boom Dollar and looked sillier, and I think we failed Butterfly. But... it was fun. If that bunch of Asian kids hadn't come around the corner towards the machine, we might have even played a second game. :)3) Three years ago this week I stopped working at the SEI, went to Texas for a week, hung out with
zml and bk1e and saw donutjay and many other people. And then I came back and started working at Claritech, which also vastly changed my life in tons of ways.