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Yes yes, I know. Long time, no see. You see, when one has a super-fast Internet connection, one spends it more on streaming TV shows and downloading movies and whatnot, rather than writing blog posts. Or one spends most of one's time TA-ing for the poor undergrad sods here, and missing home, and not writing at all. It's funny how working overtime in engineering can rob one of literary ability - almost fascinatingly fast doth the right brain atrophy. The poor little LJ cries for attention (from people other than spammers posting comments on public posts about print cartridges and things in Cyrillic that I, for one, definitely cannot read). And on Thanksgiving, this little bloggy (went to the market? How does that rhyme go again?) gets the care it deserves and gets a brand new shiny post (1 nos)!
Well, where does one start, really? So this term, much like the last, has been a lot of work. It's better work, though... is definitely more interesting (and may I say more useful? Oh, of course I may and I will). It's also easier in the sense of working with people I like - as opposed to last term when I was working with for people who were pretty much slavedrivers. I have fewer friends here now (many of them are away on term-long internships and stuff)... But I went home over the summer and made lots of new friends there (and even online, over that summer and later). It has been pointed out to me that I seem to be not-so-bad at interacting with new people as I'm generally wont to be, and I must say, it's this particular set of people that have precipitated this change in routine. So yay, y'all... you know who you are :).
This term's also been better in terms of travel... well, some of it at least. I went to NYC and to San Francisco (and Google HQ at Palo Alto). Turns out your life is a lot better in terms of plushiness when you go to a place where you know no one else, and the trip is sponsored by Google :P. And by plushiness, of course, I mean five pillows in a downy bed. Anyhoo, that wasn't a half-bad trip... except when it was all gloomy and cold and non-California-like. Which was two days out of four. But yeah. Not so bad, given that everything was paid for, at any rate.
And what else have I been up to... not reading much, not doing anything very fun. Oh, yes... Went to a production of The Phantom of the Opera by some high school kids. Remarkable how kids who are a decade younger than me can sing the aria so very well. Makes me feel rather talentless and envious, somehow. And there's a "Canadian Brass" performance this Sunday that I might go to. So yeah, stuff lined up. And then there's always more work. So it's quite likely that the next entry in this journal might well be written in a different country on a different time zone... it's bye bye to the land of the (what, really? Pilgrims?) US on the 3rd of January. And hello to at least four months of blissful peace, quiet and silence (here's the obligatory MIS in-joke). Which translates to four months of doing whatever I please, even if it isn't peaceful, quiet or silent and doesn't involve any construction. So toodle oo, pip pip, and see you soon!
Well, where does one start, really? So this term, much like the last, has been a lot of work. It's better work, though... is definitely more interesting (and may I say more useful? Oh, of course I may and I will). It's also easier in the sense of working with people I like - as opposed to last term when I was working with for people who were pretty much slavedrivers. I have fewer friends here now (many of them are away on term-long internships and stuff)... But I went home over the summer and made lots of new friends there (and even online, over that summer and later). It has been pointed out to me that I seem to be not-so-bad at interacting with new people as I'm generally wont to be, and I must say, it's this particular set of people that have precipitated this change in routine. So yay, y'all... you know who you are :).
This term's also been better in terms of travel... well, some of it at least. I went to NYC and to San Francisco (and Google HQ at Palo Alto). Turns out your life is a lot better in terms of plushiness when you go to a place where you know no one else, and the trip is sponsored by Google :P. And by plushiness, of course, I mean five pillows in a downy bed. Anyhoo, that wasn't a half-bad trip... except when it was all gloomy and cold and non-California-like. Which was two days out of four. But yeah. Not so bad, given that everything was paid for, at any rate.
And what else have I been up to... not reading much, not doing anything very fun. Oh, yes... Went to a production of The Phantom of the Opera by some high school kids. Remarkable how kids who are a decade younger than me can sing the aria so very well. Makes me feel rather talentless and envious, somehow. And there's a "Canadian Brass" performance this Sunday that I might go to. So yeah, stuff lined up. And then there's always more work. So it's quite likely that the next entry in this journal might well be written in a different country on a different time zone... it's bye bye to the land of the (what, really? Pilgrims?) US on the 3rd of January. And hello to at least four months of blissful peace, quiet and silence (here's the obligatory MIS in-joke). Which translates to four months of doing whatever I please, even if it isn't peaceful, quiet or silent and doesn't involve any construction. So toodle oo, pip pip, and see you soon!