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aluuuuuuuuumnium
I overslept this bus this morning and was really pissed off. Eli picked me up from the bus stop, which was weird. I got in just in time to have lunch with my group. Finished off the spreadsheet, hacked Mason, left around 5 with Hemant to go to the CMU alumni thingy. Haha, we had fun trying to get to Microsoft in rush hour.
So the CMU alumni thingy was kinda cool and kinda scary. LOTS of people from early years... and then a smattering from the 95-02 set. (Sigh, my nametag said "Deanna Rubin H&SS '98". Bleh...) I saw a lot of people I hadn't seen in ages. Kevin Babbitt and Brian Grunkemeyer I'd seen a few months ago... but some people, like Charlie Anthe and Matt Centurion, I had NO idea they were even in Seattle let alone at Microsoft, etc. The best was when Brian was like "Do you remember Dave Quinn? He says he was in our class at CMU... I met up with him at the SFF... and he was like 'I see Deanna in Uwajimaya all the time but she doesn't recognize me!!'" and I'm like whoa. Because not only do I of course remember Dave, but I swear I've never seen him in Uwajimaya! Eeek. Anyway, I sat at a table with Drew and Matt and Kevin, and Josh and Megan and Megan's friend Joe, and Eli, and we watched the presentations. I think I've seen too many Jim Morris presentations, but Charlie Thorpe's stuff about RI was pretty cool, and he showed the Robocup Aibo stuff and all. Afterwards they raffled some free stuff, and we also got general alumni freestuff like mousepads and bumper stickers. And I ran into Brian Yeung, and Laurel Fan, and I met Rob Leidle, who seems like a really nice guy. Talked to Kevin and Brian for ages and then headed home.
We took the scenic route to Bothell from Redmond, then went to M+J's house, then drove home. I want to play IIDX. Bye.
So the CMU alumni thingy was kinda cool and kinda scary. LOTS of people from early years... and then a smattering from the 95-02 set. (Sigh, my nametag said "Deanna Rubin H&SS '98". Bleh...) I saw a lot of people I hadn't seen in ages. Kevin Babbitt and Brian Grunkemeyer I'd seen a few months ago... but some people, like Charlie Anthe and Matt Centurion, I had NO idea they were even in Seattle let alone at Microsoft, etc. The best was when Brian was like "Do you remember Dave Quinn? He says he was in our class at CMU... I met up with him at the SFF... and he was like 'I see Deanna in Uwajimaya all the time but she doesn't recognize me!!'" and I'm like whoa. Because not only do I of course remember Dave, but I swear I've never seen him in Uwajimaya! Eeek. Anyway, I sat at a table with Drew and Matt and Kevin, and Josh and Megan and Megan's friend Joe, and Eli, and we watched the presentations. I think I've seen too many Jim Morris presentations, but Charlie Thorpe's stuff about RI was pretty cool, and he showed the Robocup Aibo stuff and all. Afterwards they raffled some free stuff, and we also got general alumni freestuff like mousepads and bumper stickers. And I ran into Brian Yeung, and Laurel Fan, and I met Rob Leidle, who seems like a really nice guy. Talked to Kevin and Brian for ages and then headed home.
We took the scenic route to Bothell from Redmond, then went to M+J's house, then drove home. I want to play IIDX. Bye.