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October 25, 2006
Back from SFO
I spent most of last week in San Francisco at a conference. It wasn't a great conference so I wont' go into deatails. My main complaint about it was that since it was a refereed confernce, all of the work was old. Not that it wasn't still relevant, just that you could tell that people had moved on from it. All of the excitment that goes along with current projects just wasn't there. Sad.
I've now posted some pictures of my time in Seattle, both from over the summer and from last month. There are pictures of Jen and Ir as well as conveyer-belt sushi.
This week has been good so far as I've not had to teach much. Monday we went over the mid-term and watched videos. Today my co-instructor began teaching. She'll be teaching for about 3 weeks, taking some of the burdent off of me ;)
I'm trying to get lots of stuff done in that time for my thesis work, including some site visits. We'll see how far I get. Part of it involves trying to understand some legacy code (kill me now) and learning Java to make my gui's. If anyone wants to weigh in on the technical merits of Swing v. GTK v. WxWidgets, now would be a good time.
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October 16, 2006
Drowning in cake
So this weekend Brian and I managed to double book ourselves for dinner on Saturday. My supervisor was having a party for the lab at his house and then Brian got an invitation from a friend of his for a birthday party at Pete's house. The birtday party started at 3 and the other party started at 6, so we ended up going to both. At the birthday party there was a home-made black forest cake that must have been 15" diameter and a foot tall. At the other party there were 4 cakes of various kinds. This is what happens when your host says not to bring anything and you still bring cake. Then because it was Daniel's birthday he got another cake on Sunday from friends of his. So in all lots of cake.
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October 13, 2006
So far so good
I ran last night for the first time in a few months. I ran with a friend of mine and her running group. We ran really slowly for about 2 miles. The reason I'm writing about it is that I ran with my new brace and I ran pain free -- even afterwards. YEAH!!!! Hopefully it wasn't a fluke.
Nothing much up for this weekend -- I fly to SFO on Tuesday and will be there till Friday for the annual HFES conference.
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October 11, 2006
Good news
I think I'm becoming more and more used to this whole "make notes for class" thing taking forever. For the past two lectures I have not been finished with my notes the night before and was not in cold sweats all night. Not that I wasn't a little more than rushed this morning as I had an unplanned meeting which cut my prep time in half...
I did get some good news this week. My journal paper was finally accepted!!! Time to celebrate. Don't exactly know what I'll do to celebrate, but feel free to send along suggestions. It still needs some minor corrections, but the important email with congratulations in the title has come through. Happy dance.
Also the guys from the company sponsoring my sojourn to Seattle this summer came to visit today. He said that my report was getting lots of accolades inside the company and that he wanted to formalize the relationship with GT!! More happiness and money.
Life is good, but so busy that I barely notice.
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October 03, 2006
Not Alive
I am not alive -- not really. I'm just treading water, and am barely able to stay on top of work that ABSOLUTELY HAS TO BE DONE. So work towards my thesis is fairly nonexistent. Sigh. This is what happens when you take "opportunities".
In other knee news. I had my MRI yesterday and for the first time, I have not physically injured it. Atleast that is what the MRI showed. All ligaments are in place. All cartilidge seems to be fine. So yesterday I took a $500 nap. It was well appreciated. The final words of my orthopedic surgeon were, your knee looks great. So I am now off to try the $30 solution of a nice neoprene knee brace and see how that goes.
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