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The last two days, aka "from eh to whee"
Okay, so Thursday was... eh. I remember driving down I-5 and seeing the grey grey clouds and the Seattle skyline looking like a black-and-white photo, which was neat, except behind me the sky was blue and everything was in color. Almost as if I was travelling through a TV time machine and in front of me was the 1962 World's Fair and behind me was today's Greenlake neighborhood. Eh.
Work was, of course, eh.
I stopped by Blue C on my way home from work to grab dinner, figuring I wasn't sure I'd have decent sushi for a week or two, and got home around 8-8:15ish, which should have been plenty of time to pack and play some Pop'n (that morning I'd played one or two games and I unlocked the Des-Row course and Daikenkai, whee) but instead I logged into PP, which is always dumb. Ah well, I did pack and wasn't too much over on my time guess. Josh was nice enough to give me a ride to the airport, and I got there with PLENTY of time to spare.
The plane flight itself was eh. I couldn't sleep for the first part, so I read The Three Musketeers, because I'm on another Dumas kick I think (and now I can make Carl read The Count of Monte Cristo). I probably got like 200 pages in before realizing, whoa, it was late. So I tried to sleep; I think I got like an hour of sleep total. Bleh.
I got into the airport at 7am; got off the plane; got to the car rental place; rented a car... then got to brave Pittsburgh rush hour to get here. It actually did, veritably, suck, but since Carl had said I should come over around 9, I figured it didn't matter if it took a while. I stopped in Squirrel Hill around 8:30am, and went into Bruegger's to get a bagel, because dammit I'm on the east coast and WE HAVE BAGELS. I ran into three KGB people, one of whom I recognized from the lounge (mbrewer?) and another who is the Sgt at Arms (lizza?) and another whose name I never caught. But they were nice and hyper despite having been up all night, as was I, so I talked to them for a while and then drove over here to Carl's.
(As an aside -- Driving a rental car has really made me appreciate and love my Honda Civic Hybrid all the more.)
Carl had to go to work, so we chatted a bit and then I fell asleep on the couch for a few hours, waking up at 2pm or so eastern (which is my normal 11am or so western, I guess). I ended up getting to campus at 3:30pm. My car had already been ticketed for daring to park in Area J. Sigh. Ah well, so I went to campus; oddly, I was able to walk from Morewood and Forbes to the CS Lounge without recognizing ANYONE or stopping to say hi. I am not sure this has happened in many many years. Maybe I really am gone. Anyway, I got to the lounge and I saw![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
buoren and sk4p and whitemage, and oh! and degauss too. and other people who I am sure have LJs but whose names I don't know offhand. Oh, I saw dracai and mygrane as well, heh. ("Hey, it's the governor of Zeta!" "Hey, it's the governor of Turtle!")
After that I wandered around Wean a bit... stopped in to see Mark Stehlik, then I stopped in to see Catherine Copetas... then I showed up onbhudson's doorstep, and eventually jcreed walked by too, and Alex Groce called me about maybe getting dinner and csg87 started IMming me about getting dinner, so... we figured on getting dinner somewhere in Squirrel Hill so we'd be near Charlie. Alex came to campus and came up to Benoit's office, and Jason and I knocked on platypuslord's door on our way to the lounge for me to get my jacket, and so Dan got dragged in too.. so we ended up at Gullifty's, where we were randomly joined by Chris Colohan and his fiancee (!!) Lea, who is apparently Jason's officemate. I *love* how it is here, where I had no plans for dinner, yet just a little walking around Wean Hall and I end up going to dinner with 7 CS grad students! It's just so awesome. Only way it could have been better is if Kevin (Watkins) had actually been in the office as well when I came over to harrass Benoit :)
Woooo, that was really awesome. After that I came to campus and went to Wean 7500 for the rules for Capture the Stuff With Flags.arashink showed up with his girlfriend, and we hung out in the back of the room for a while. Zarf showed up! Wowie! It was really funny because NOBODY knew who he was. 150 people there and a good half at least were freshmen. He got up like "Hey, I'm Andy Plotkin. I like, wrote this game ten years ago, and like... my gosh, I barely recognize it anymore." There was a severe lack of alumni as compared to past years though. I mean, most of the ones I've mentioned were there, and jcipa and redglasses and some other people I don't know if they've graduated yet (for example, what's the deal with Ben Gilbert?) but for the most part I didn't know 90% of the people there, which was odd for me. Ah well.
I didn't actually play in the first round because Bayani and Kate and I decided to go to the UC to play DDR, since Bayani leaves tomorrow morning for Thanksgivingy things, and tomorrow is 20 November, so we'd just play 20 November on 19 November. Oh man, I really feel like I suck at DDR now, even if I might not be so awful for Pittsburgh. Oh, andrjmccall was on the DDR machine when we got there so that was odd. I didn't know he played, but I think it's cool that he does, and he's gotten really good! So after a few games I suggested going back to the CTF game. We went through Doherty and ran into Carl! The first game was just about to end, so we decided to try to all end up on the same team for the second game.
Kevin, Carl, John, and I went around as "Alumni Strike Force" for a bit until we got split up. I somehow ended up sneaking in to Doherty on my own on the highest floor... nobody was there so I went up the stairs to the 4320 offices. Still nobody there, and no flags hidden in the area. I went down the steps on the other side and... THERE WAS A FLAG IN THE STAIRWELL! So I grabbed it and ran back up the stairs, through the offices, through the top floor, and to the judges' room! Wheeee! I got a flag I got a flag I got a flag I missrkane. But, dude, I got a flag. I think Randy got like 3 flags. Still. (Oh, this second game they were playing with 10 flags. Total chaos.)
There was a pretty amusing point when in jail, people were lying down on the floor to stretch out the jail line, and so I was in the stairwell next to Carl, saying "dude, this is dumb" when Zarf walked down and sat with us in jail for a while talking about games and whatnot. It was pretty funny since I was just like "Uh, yeah, this is totally how I want to spend my Friday night... lying on the floor in a stairwell in jail. Wheeeee." As jail break happened, a guy came up to me like "Hey, I think I met you last year. Weren't you the CS Lounge girl who cares about baseball?" He was wearing a Red Sox hat. We had a nice chat for about 20 minutes. :)
Wooo, so it was fun running around and whatnot. Carl and I decided to give up after that game and came back here, where he had dinner-ish food and made me some hot chocolate. Stayed up talking a bit and now even though it's midnight my time I should go to sleep because it's 3am here. What a day :) I'm really happy to be back at CMU. Really, really happy. And really, really old. But mostly happy.
(oh, for those playing the home game, and who may be confused, mostly the PP folk, Carl's my best friend. he also plays PP, but nowhere near as much as I do. But he is governor of Wrasse. Hee. My island's cooler. NOT.)
Work was, of course, eh.
I stopped by Blue C on my way home from work to grab dinner, figuring I wasn't sure I'd have decent sushi for a week or two, and got home around 8-8:15ish, which should have been plenty of time to pack and play some Pop'n (that morning I'd played one or two games and I unlocked the Des-Row course and Daikenkai, whee) but instead I logged into PP, which is always dumb. Ah well, I did pack and wasn't too much over on my time guess. Josh was nice enough to give me a ride to the airport, and I got there with PLENTY of time to spare.
The plane flight itself was eh. I couldn't sleep for the first part, so I read The Three Musketeers, because I'm on another Dumas kick I think (and now I can make Carl read The Count of Monte Cristo). I probably got like 200 pages in before realizing, whoa, it was late. So I tried to sleep; I think I got like an hour of sleep total. Bleh.
I got into the airport at 7am; got off the plane; got to the car rental place; rented a car... then got to brave Pittsburgh rush hour to get here. It actually did, veritably, suck, but since Carl had said I should come over around 9, I figured it didn't matter if it took a while. I stopped in Squirrel Hill around 8:30am, and went into Bruegger's to get a bagel, because dammit I'm on the east coast and WE HAVE BAGELS. I ran into three KGB people, one of whom I recognized from the lounge (mbrewer?) and another who is the Sgt at Arms (lizza?) and another whose name I never caught. But they were nice and hyper despite having been up all night, as was I, so I talked to them for a while and then drove over here to Carl's.
(As an aside -- Driving a rental car has really made me appreciate and love my Honda Civic Hybrid all the more.)
Carl had to go to work, so we chatted a bit and then I fell asleep on the couch for a few hours, waking up at 2pm or so eastern (which is my normal 11am or so western, I guess). I ended up getting to campus at 3:30pm. My car had already been ticketed for daring to park in Area J. Sigh. Ah well, so I went to campus; oddly, I was able to walk from Morewood and Forbes to the CS Lounge without recognizing ANYONE or stopping to say hi. I am not sure this has happened in many many years. Maybe I really am gone. Anyway, I got to the lounge and I saw
buoren and sk4p and whitemage, and oh! and degauss too. and other people who I am sure have LJs but whose names I don't know offhand. Oh, I saw dracai and mygrane as well, heh. ("Hey, it's the governor of Zeta!" "Hey, it's the governor of Turtle!") After that I wandered around Wean a bit... stopped in to see Mark Stehlik, then I stopped in to see Catherine Copetas... then I showed up on
bhudson's doorstep, and eventually jcreed walked by too, and Alex Groce called me about maybe getting dinner and csg87 started IMming me about getting dinner, so... we figured on getting dinner somewhere in Squirrel Hill so we'd be near Charlie. Alex came to campus and came up to Benoit's office, and Jason and I knocked on platypuslord's door on our way to the lounge for me to get my jacket, and so Dan got dragged in too.. so we ended up at Gullifty's, where we were randomly joined by Chris Colohan and his fiancee (!!) Lea, who is apparently Jason's officemate. I *love* how it is here, where I had no plans for dinner, yet just a little walking around Wean Hall and I end up going to dinner with 7 CS grad students! It's just so awesome. Only way it could have been better is if Kevin (Watkins) had actually been in the office as well when I came over to harrass Benoit :)Woooo, that was really awesome. After that I came to campus and went to Wean 7500 for the rules for Capture the Stuff With Flags.
arashink showed up with his girlfriend, and we hung out in the back of the room for a while. Zarf showed up! Wowie! It was really funny because NOBODY knew who he was. 150 people there and a good half at least were freshmen. He got up like "Hey, I'm Andy Plotkin. I like, wrote this game ten years ago, and like... my gosh, I barely recognize it anymore." There was a severe lack of alumni as compared to past years though. I mean, most of the ones I've mentioned were there, and jcipa and redglasses and some other people I don't know if they've graduated yet (for example, what's the deal with Ben Gilbert?) but for the most part I didn't know 90% of the people there, which was odd for me. Ah well. I didn't actually play in the first round because Bayani and Kate and I decided to go to the UC to play DDR, since Bayani leaves tomorrow morning for Thanksgivingy things, and tomorrow is 20 November, so we'd just play 20 November on 19 November. Oh man, I really feel like I suck at DDR now, even if I might not be so awful for Pittsburgh. Oh, and
rjmccall was on the DDR machine when we got there so that was odd. I didn't know he played, but I think it's cool that he does, and he's gotten really good! So after a few games I suggested going back to the CTF game. We went through Doherty and ran into Carl! The first game was just about to end, so we decided to try to all end up on the same team for the second game. Kevin, Carl, John, and I went around as "Alumni Strike Force" for a bit until we got split up. I somehow ended up sneaking in to Doherty on my own on the highest floor... nobody was there so I went up the stairs to the 4320 offices. Still nobody there, and no flags hidden in the area. I went down the steps on the other side and... THERE WAS A FLAG IN THE STAIRWELL! So I grabbed it and ran back up the stairs, through the offices, through the top floor, and to the judges' room! Wheeee! I got a flag I got a flag I got a flag I miss
rkane. But, dude, I got a flag. I think Randy got like 3 flags. Still. (Oh, this second game they were playing with 10 flags. Total chaos.)There was a pretty amusing point when in jail, people were lying down on the floor to stretch out the jail line, and so I was in the stairwell next to Carl, saying "dude, this is dumb" when Zarf walked down and sat with us in jail for a while talking about games and whatnot. It was pretty funny since I was just like "Uh, yeah, this is totally how I want to spend my Friday night... lying on the floor in a stairwell in jail. Wheeeee." As jail break happened, a guy came up to me like "Hey, I think I met you last year. Weren't you the CS Lounge girl who cares about baseball?" He was wearing a Red Sox hat. We had a nice chat for about 20 minutes. :)
Wooo, so it was fun running around and whatnot. Carl and I decided to give up after that game and came back here, where he had dinner-ish food and made me some hot chocolate. Stayed up talking a bit and now even though it's midnight my time I should go to sleep because it's 3am here. What a day :) I'm really happy to be back at CMU. Really, really happy. And really, really old. But mostly happy.
(oh, for those playing the home game, and who may be confused, mostly the PP folk, Carl's my best friend. he also plays PP, but nowhere near as much as I do. But he is governor of Wrasse. Hee. My island's cooler. NOT.)
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Hey, I'm a guy! Always nice to chat with another baseball fan, and looking back, you were right, your postseason predictions were spot on for every series. Color me impressed.
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I'd entirely forgotten that.
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Red Team - 3
Randy (Yellow Team) - 4