Tomorrow is the first day of the last month before the rest of our lives

Today we slept in. I played some more DDR before showering and changing. Decided to wear the stuff I bought at Kohl's yesterday... the shorts are a win but I definitely feel too heavy to wear tank tops. But I'm trying to get less self-conscious about it. We went to Geagle and I got stuff for strawberry shortcake. I first ran into Ted Wong, who was coming over for dinner, who apparently had also bought stuff for dinner. Whee. I also ran into Mike the tenor sax player from Kiltie, who I chatted with for a while. Eli and I got stuff, and went home, at which point I goofed off for a while.

People showed up a little after 7. Eli heated up his barley soup stuff for dinner and Rochberg brought salad and Ted and Addie brought sundried tomato bread and dip and this weird chocolate mayo cake with pure sugar icing. Eh, so we ate a whole lot of food and talked for like five hours. (But we had enough food for like ten people, not five.) Addie and Ted are getting married next summer, so there was a lot of Addie giving me advice and Ted making fun of it like "Dude, Vegas will cost you $850, you know". Shrug. It was interesting I guess because they had never been over here before, and except for like five minutes at a lodge party once where I showed up with Christmas lights in my hair, I hadn't ever really talked to Addie, so that was cool.

It does make me wonder what happens to all the crap printed for brides though. I mean, it must all fall into a black hole - it's not like you ever really plan to use all of those magazines and books and crap again, so they get passed from person to person, or thrown out, or whatever. Must be a wacky industry to be in though...

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 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.