Things I Did Today

[dr4b]

I made a Chutes and Ladders game for my 7th-graders to practice numbers with. Then I was told to make a big poster version to demonstrate for the class with, so now I have the world's biggest Chutes and Ladders board. Yay.



After work I went to dinner with Eleanor, who I seriously don't think I ever met at CMU, but we know an awful lot of people in common (Benoit suggested she get in touch with me in the first place when her company sent her to Japan this week). We hung out in Shinjuku and Shibuya and I basically walked around and babbled about everything.

We had dinner at the Shinjuku Momo Paradise which is huge and awesome! I realized just now that I think I went there like, 5 years ago, but didn't know it at the time. Weird.

Comments

[genuinekfc.livejournal.com]

Ellie! I haven't seen her in so long. (We were on the same buggy team.) I'm guessing you didn't overlap at CMU, but you both know the people who were around for years. :-)

[dr4b]

Actually, I specifically asked if she knew you, only because she mentioned something like "...so my company sent me to Japan now, then I am going back to Pittsburgh for four days, then I go to Korea for a few weeks, then I go home, then I have another trip to..." and talking about getting people to watch her car/cat/etc in Pittsburgh while she's on all of these trips, and I'm like "...wait a minute, do you know Katherine Crawford? You sound just like her with this crazy travel schedule around the world."

Technically we didn't overlap at CMU, but as it turns out I was a TA for Governor's School for a bunch of Allderdice students that were all overlapping with her there, so that was the more bizarre coincidence.

[nykkel.livejournal.com]

The chutes looked like snakes to me at first glance. Maybe you can pretend they're going to eat the more annoying kids. :)

[genuinekfc.livejournal.com]

The historical game is Snakes and Ladders.

dr4b, which is easier to explain in Japanese?

[dr4b]

It is infact snakes, because 1) they were easier to draw and 2) I think that the "sugoroku" game in Japan is usually done with snakes too, so it'd be more familiar to the kids.

[cortneyofeden.livejournal.com]

Dude! Say hi to Ellie for me? We were friends in high school, I haven't seen her in ages. :)