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"I bought Pirate earrings!" "No, you bought Pirates earrings."
Yay! Every day in Pittsburgh is more fun than the last, it seems. I always hate to leave here. On the other hand, I also know that if I wasn't just here for a week, people wouldn't bother making time to hang out with me quite the same.
Anyway, I ended up going to lunch with the gang anyway, as it turned out. Met up with Django and Matt and Isaac and Konstantin at the Union Grill. Whee! That was really fun, except that everyone spent most of lunch talking about Warcraft :) It was kind of funny when Django and I would try to change the subject to no avail. No, actually, it really WAS funny, I'm not being sarcastic. Afterwards, I walked back to campus with people, talked to Django for a bit (and forced him to sign my copy of Memories of Empire), and then I went looking for Mark Stehlik, who was out at a meeting, unfortunately.
So I went to PNC Park! Whee, I dunno. I had looked at the schedules for the 500 and 501 buses and then decided to just ignore them and hop on the first bus headed downtown on Forbes. Whee. So I got to walk across downtown Pittsburgh a bit in the rain, which was nice and nostalgic. I walked to PNC Park, and the gates were actually open, so I got to walk in and go around the outfield area and take some pictures of the field and stuff... well, except it was grey and rainy. Ah, well. I went to the Pirates Team Store looking for some stuff but most of the stuff I wanted, they didn't have. You know, like a Jason Bay number shirt that wasn't in 2XL. I debated getting a Zach Duke number shirt, but in the end decided to just not get any Pirates shirt and I'll just wear the ones I have at the pirate party. I did get a few other things, though.
Then I came back to campus and talked to Mark Stehlik for almost two hours. That rocked. Mark is super-awesome. (For the non-CMU folks, Mark is/was the undergraduate computer science advisor, but to a lot of us he's more like just this awesome friend who is great to talk to but is always super-busy and used to have some say over what classes we took.) So, Mark is proud of me for being a programmer AND we talked about baseball for a while. Also, he told me he's going to Qatar next semester for 8 weeks. Craziness, but maybe he can hang out with Roman sometimes.
After that, I walked back from campus so I'd have an hour or two here to do some work. Bayani called me and we figured out a plan, kinda -- Carl would bus here, and then Bayani and Kate would come here and we'd all get dinner at Del's. Whee! So, that is exactly what happened, modulo a few things like Carl's bus being a little late, and Benoit debating whether to go, and inviting his girlfriend Kami, but then deciding neither of them would go after all. So just the four of us went to Del's, and Del's was fantastic and we ate a ton of food and hung out for a while. I'm trying to convince Bayani and Kate to come visit Seattle sometime, of course! (And I'm trying to convince Carl to come with me to Japan next summer :)
We came back to Squill with this idea of maybe playing a board game, and instead ended up hanging out and talking for an hour or two. I swear this is a pattern. Carl and I swore we'd play a board game tomorrow night. Time will show whether we actually do. Whee. After Bayani and Kate and Carl left, I got out the laptop and started catching up on work and email and stuff. Then Charlie got back and forced me to play Set with him. Again.
I am not sure my plan for tomorrow either, of course :) I am going to do work in the morning, then take pictures of Squirrel Hill for Megan, maybe, and then go to campus in the late afternoon to stop by the University Shoppe since I forgot to so far, and I'm meeting up with a friend for coffee at 3, and in theory in the evening Carl and I will plan to play board games again, and fail. But anyone who wants to be part of our abortive gaming attempt is welcome to try to make it succeed :)
You know, there's something strangely comforting about sitting in the living room of a geek apartment with three geeks around, drinking birch beer, looking at Perl code on a laptop, while Benoit is working on his paper, Rafael is reading something, and Charlie is being Charlie. Maybe I *should* be looking for roomates or housemates in Seattle. I dunno.
Oh, um, also, I need to get to the airport for an 8am flight on Thursday morning. I'll probly just 28X it unless someone is crazy enough to feel like driving me there, which I would love, but also feel so insanely guilty about that it's not even funny, so eh.
Anyway, I ended up going to lunch with the gang anyway, as it turned out. Met up with Django and Matt and Isaac and Konstantin at the Union Grill. Whee! That was really fun, except that everyone spent most of lunch talking about Warcraft :) It was kind of funny when Django and I would try to change the subject to no avail. No, actually, it really WAS funny, I'm not being sarcastic. Afterwards, I walked back to campus with people, talked to Django for a bit (and forced him to sign my copy of Memories of Empire), and then I went looking for Mark Stehlik, who was out at a meeting, unfortunately.
So I went to PNC Park! Whee, I dunno. I had looked at the schedules for the 500 and 501 buses and then decided to just ignore them and hop on the first bus headed downtown on Forbes. Whee. So I got to walk across downtown Pittsburgh a bit in the rain, which was nice and nostalgic. I walked to PNC Park, and the gates were actually open, so I got to walk in and go around the outfield area and take some pictures of the field and stuff... well, except it was grey and rainy. Ah, well. I went to the Pirates Team Store looking for some stuff but most of the stuff I wanted, they didn't have. You know, like a Jason Bay number shirt that wasn't in 2XL. I debated getting a Zach Duke number shirt, but in the end decided to just not get any Pirates shirt and I'll just wear the ones I have at the pirate party. I did get a few other things, though.
Then I came back to campus and talked to Mark Stehlik for almost two hours. That rocked. Mark is super-awesome. (For the non-CMU folks, Mark is/was the undergraduate computer science advisor, but to a lot of us he's more like just this awesome friend who is great to talk to but is always super-busy and used to have some say over what classes we took.) So, Mark is proud of me for being a programmer AND we talked about baseball for a while. Also, he told me he's going to Qatar next semester for 8 weeks. Craziness, but maybe he can hang out with Roman sometimes.
After that, I walked back from campus so I'd have an hour or two here to do some work. Bayani called me and we figured out a plan, kinda -- Carl would bus here, and then Bayani and Kate would come here and we'd all get dinner at Del's. Whee! So, that is exactly what happened, modulo a few things like Carl's bus being a little late, and Benoit debating whether to go, and inviting his girlfriend Kami, but then deciding neither of them would go after all. So just the four of us went to Del's, and Del's was fantastic and we ate a ton of food and hung out for a while. I'm trying to convince Bayani and Kate to come visit Seattle sometime, of course! (And I'm trying to convince Carl to come with me to Japan next summer :)
We came back to Squill with this idea of maybe playing a board game, and instead ended up hanging out and talking for an hour or two. I swear this is a pattern. Carl and I swore we'd play a board game tomorrow night. Time will show whether we actually do. Whee. After Bayani and Kate and Carl left, I got out the laptop and started catching up on work and email and stuff. Then Charlie got back and forced me to play Set with him. Again.
I am not sure my plan for tomorrow either, of course :) I am going to do work in the morning, then take pictures of Squirrel Hill for Megan, maybe, and then go to campus in the late afternoon to stop by the University Shoppe since I forgot to so far, and I'm meeting up with a friend for coffee at 3, and in theory in the evening Carl and I will plan to play board games again, and fail. But anyone who wants to be part of our abortive gaming attempt is welcome to try to make it succeed :)
You know, there's something strangely comforting about sitting in the living room of a geek apartment with three geeks around, drinking birch beer, looking at Perl code on a laptop, while Benoit is working on his paper, Rafael is reading something, and Charlie is being Charlie. Maybe I *should* be looking for roomates or housemates in Seattle. I dunno.
Oh, um, also, I need to get to the airport for an 8am flight on Thursday morning. I'll probly just 28X it unless someone is crazy enough to feel like driving me there, which I would love, but also feel so insanely guilty about that it's not even funny, so eh.
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Thanks. =)
Isn't a bit weird to miss pittsburgh so much while still trying to convince people to move here from there??
sigh.
Anyway, Bayani and Kate, come to visit Seattle. You have a place to stay.
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and again, and again, and again...
Biggest addict EVER.
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