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magedragonfireOogh. I can hardly move, so what better time than to sit down and actually write a decent bit, eh?
Life has been a rather nutso-worthy whirlwind as of late. I literally haven't stopped moving since about the beginning of June. It's getting to the point where I'm going to need a fall vacation, or something, to get over summer... Not that I actually have time for vacations any time soon, feh.
I had my first big show for belly dancing - well, two smaller ones and one big one, anywhoo. There's a student night held between a few teachers at the end of June every year, whereupon all the students get up at a restaurant and strut their stuff. Nerve-wracking to the extreme, but pretty fun, and I did pretty well in my four major numbers - even got the veil over my head properly during the back-bend in Kecharitomene, and it hadn't done that ever, before, hehe. Additionally, my tummy-pudge behaved during the night, and I was most pleased about that. I think the costume treated it just right, aye. Might post pictures later.
The smaller 'shows' were at a hafla - a kind of Middle-Eastern dance party, so just in front of a bunch of dancers for the most part - and a small demonstration held at the local country fair thing. They were before the student night, so it was good to get a little experience in beforehand. I'm taking a break from the dancing for now, just while I'm so busy - probably go back at it come fall.
School's been keeping me hopping. In one of the classes, there are weekly assignments - and they take about six hours each to do, plus fifty pages of reading to understand what it is we're supposed to be doing. It's getting a little wearing, especially with the topics that they're on - optimality theory is a giant constraint satisfaction problem, but we're given very little help in identifying what the constraints are supposed to be. Barrel of monkeys, I can tell yer. There will be some criticisms on my course evaluation of /this/ one, oh yes.
Syntax isn't going so bad - but then, I like syntax - and neither is Socioling, if only because I've seen most of the material before. The problem with that class is the term paper that's coming up, and the associated research Ｉ have to do for it - gathering my own data. My topic's on the Interwebs and how it's changing the way people speak - so I've got a questionnaire that I need to finish up and send out to my recruited guinee pigz. Also will record my brother's WoW guild at raid and see if there's anything interesting there.
Then there's phonetics, where the class material and the homework assignments are entirely unrelated, and she seems to have an almost at-random scheme for deciding where things are wrong on said assignments - almost contradictory, at times. Marks've been slipping in that course, since I kind of gave up caring around midterm time, and haven't really had time to care since.
The good news, at least, is that if I pass these four courses, my next semester will be my last one - I was in to see the advisor on Wednesday, and it turned out my calculations were identical to hers.
I also just spent the last month planning a beer garden for the CSSS - it was discussed a few months ago that maybe having one would be a good idea, so I kind of spearheaded the entire thing and got it to happen. Such a runaround of paperwork and bullcrap, lemme tell you! We had the actual thing last night, and it went pretty well - there was fooding, drinking, and people seemed to have a pretty good time. Now I just have to deal with the leftover bullshit, along with writing a report so that anyone who tries to make one in the future will not make the same mistakes I did (the society had never done one before, so this was an entirely new experience). The bestest thing to deal with, I'm sure, will be getting facilities management to back down from their bill - we had to fence in the liquor-serving area per university regulations, which was no problem, except that facilities wants to charge us over 800 dollars for the set-up and take-down, which is nuts - they're complaining because they had to haul the fencing panels upstairs into the gardens where we were hosting the event, and needed four guys over three hours each way to do it, but it could've easily been done in one hour with two guys and a pickup truck, which facilities has in spades.
Idiots.
If we can get that bill negated (or get some help from the SFSS), then we'll probably have even managed to break even with our budget.
I will be entirely too glad when all the crap to do with this thing is done with - never again. At least I'll probably have made myself a shoo-in for the CSSS scholarship with this, which I will need.
The garden, by the by, is why I'm so sore right now - my shoulders and back are killing me, but not the usual stress-pain. Oh, no, this is a 'you lifted way damn too much, you stupid girl' pain. We were all workhorses yesterday, carrying beer and boxes of equipment back and forth everywhere, and now I'm paying for it.
Turns out I'm broke, ehe. Had to borrow a grand from my mom in order to pay this semester off. I have no real debt otherwise, which is kind of something to be saying after five years of university, but still. I need to find a job, and quick, but I've just had no time to look lately - and the few resumes I did manage to submit I never got a response for. Boo.
So, now I just have to worry about tying up those loose ends, get my stupid class stuff done - first things first, that questionnaire - and I might be okay.
Thankfully, it hasn't been all purely-stressful things going on - although there was the fight between my mom and dad that ended with the cops over, but whatever - there's been some fun (if stressful because of little time) things going on, too.
Travis and I were down to Seattle about a month back to see Avenue Q - that's the Broadway show with the puppets and the origin of the song "The Internet is for Porn". The show was a hoot, and the entire theatre was in stitches at times． You've never heard such a roar of approval go up when the finale's line of "George Bush is only for now" was sang - it was awesome. I totally itched to see how the set was put together, but alas, sneaking up during intermission probably would've been frowned upon.
The only kinda crappy thing about the trip was the hour or so we sat at customs waiting for the US border folk to finish inspecting Trav's truck - apparently they don't see a lot of propane vehicles, or something. Also, the interstate is awful and concrete and bumpy, and I don't understand how Americans drive repeatedly on those things.
I've also been trying to squish in time to RP and work on RPs in the meantime, too - DexNet is almost ready to begin accepting applications, thankfully; managed to get Hoenn's info all done, Guin's done Kanto, and we seem to have most of the general game information posts done too. Just need to get Johto (which Peter was supposed to do, but I dunno what happened there) up, and we'll be good to go. I still need to work on Sinnoh, myself, but we won't have that region open at the beginning of the game, so it's probably okay if it's a little bit late - I did finally get the userinfos all done, which was a celebration of sorts.
I've also been having fun in Furc lately with a new friend, someone I bumped into with Icy a month or two back. It turns out she just 'inherited' a dream from the player of her character's brother, so now we're fixing it up and making it all spiffy - a lot of things had gotten broken in it during the last update, like floors being made unwalkable and such. She doesn't know much about patchwork or DS or anything, but I've got the rudiments from working at AKP, so it should turn out okay. We still dunno what the place's purpose will be yet, besides our characters' homes, but...
And, finally, I managed to get a shiny new laptop in the past month, a little Asus Eee 900. I'm typing this thing from it as we speak. I really like it - it's tiny, but does just what I need it to, and even though I'm not too familiar with Linux, I've managed to get it to do what I want thus far. I've only even had to restore it after completely fucking it up once, so far! :D (Turns out Xandros does not like WINE 1.0, or something; I somehow managed to break most of KDE while trying to install it.)
Aaanyways, it's about time I go and get some work done on DexNet or the HoC or that questionnaire, or something.
Life has been a rather nutso-worthy whirlwind as of late. I literally haven't stopped moving since about the beginning of June. It's getting to the point where I'm going to need a fall vacation, or something, to get over summer... Not that I actually have time for vacations any time soon, feh.
I had my first big show for belly dancing - well, two smaller ones and one big one, anywhoo. There's a student night held between a few teachers at the end of June every year, whereupon all the students get up at a restaurant and strut their stuff. Nerve-wracking to the extreme, but pretty fun, and I did pretty well in my four major numbers - even got the veil over my head properly during the back-bend in Kecharitomene, and it hadn't done that ever, before, hehe. Additionally, my tummy-pudge behaved during the night, and I was most pleased about that. I think the costume treated it just right, aye. Might post pictures later.
The smaller 'shows' were at a hafla - a kind of Middle-Eastern dance party, so just in front of a bunch of dancers for the most part - and a small demonstration held at the local country fair thing. They were before the student night, so it was good to get a little experience in beforehand. I'm taking a break from the dancing for now, just while I'm so busy - probably go back at it come fall.
School's been keeping me hopping. In one of the classes, there are weekly assignments - and they take about six hours each to do, plus fifty pages of reading to understand what it is we're supposed to be doing. It's getting a little wearing, especially with the topics that they're on - optimality theory is a giant constraint satisfaction problem, but we're given very little help in identifying what the constraints are supposed to be. Barrel of monkeys, I can tell yer. There will be some criticisms on my course evaluation of /this/ one, oh yes.
Syntax isn't going so bad - but then, I like syntax - and neither is Socioling, if only because I've seen most of the material before. The problem with that class is the term paper that's coming up, and the associated research Ｉ have to do for it - gathering my own data. My topic's on the Interwebs and how it's changing the way people speak - so I've got a questionnaire that I need to finish up and send out to my recruited guinee pigz. Also will record my brother's WoW guild at raid and see if there's anything interesting there.
Then there's phonetics, where the class material and the homework assignments are entirely unrelated, and she seems to have an almost at-random scheme for deciding where things are wrong on said assignments - almost contradictory, at times. Marks've been slipping in that course, since I kind of gave up caring around midterm time, and haven't really had time to care since.
The good news, at least, is that if I pass these four courses, my next semester will be my last one - I was in to see the advisor on Wednesday, and it turned out my calculations were identical to hers.
I also just spent the last month planning a beer garden for the CSSS - it was discussed a few months ago that maybe having one would be a good idea, so I kind of spearheaded the entire thing and got it to happen. Such a runaround of paperwork and bullcrap, lemme tell you! We had the actual thing last night, and it went pretty well - there was fooding, drinking, and people seemed to have a pretty good time. Now I just have to deal with the leftover bullshit, along with writing a report so that anyone who tries to make one in the future will not make the same mistakes I did (the society had never done one before, so this was an entirely new experience). The bestest thing to deal with, I'm sure, will be getting facilities management to back down from their bill - we had to fence in the liquor-serving area per university regulations, which was no problem, except that facilities wants to charge us over 800 dollars for the set-up and take-down, which is nuts - they're complaining because they had to haul the fencing panels upstairs into the gardens where we were hosting the event, and needed four guys over three hours each way to do it, but it could've easily been done in one hour with two guys and a pickup truck, which facilities has in spades.
Idiots.
If we can get that bill negated (or get some help from the SFSS), then we'll probably have even managed to break even with our budget.
I will be entirely too glad when all the crap to do with this thing is done with - never again. At least I'll probably have made myself a shoo-in for the CSSS scholarship with this, which I will need.
The garden, by the by, is why I'm so sore right now - my shoulders and back are killing me, but not the usual stress-pain. Oh, no, this is a 'you lifted way damn too much, you stupid girl' pain. We were all workhorses yesterday, carrying beer and boxes of equipment back and forth everywhere, and now I'm paying for it.
Turns out I'm broke, ehe. Had to borrow a grand from my mom in order to pay this semester off. I have no real debt otherwise, which is kind of something to be saying after five years of university, but still. I need to find a job, and quick, but I've just had no time to look lately - and the few resumes I did manage to submit I never got a response for. Boo.
So, now I just have to worry about tying up those loose ends, get my stupid class stuff done - first things first, that questionnaire - and I might be okay.
Thankfully, it hasn't been all purely-stressful things going on - although there was the fight between my mom and dad that ended with the cops over, but whatever - there's been some fun (if stressful because of little time) things going on, too.
Travis and I were down to Seattle about a month back to see Avenue Q - that's the Broadway show with the puppets and the origin of the song "The Internet is for Porn". The show was a hoot, and the entire theatre was in stitches at times． You've never heard such a roar of approval go up when the finale's line of "George Bush is only for now" was sang - it was awesome. I totally itched to see how the set was put together, but alas, sneaking up during intermission probably would've been frowned upon.
The only kinda crappy thing about the trip was the hour or so we sat at customs waiting for the US border folk to finish inspecting Trav's truck - apparently they don't see a lot of propane vehicles, or something. Also, the interstate is awful and concrete and bumpy, and I don't understand how Americans drive repeatedly on those things.
I've also been trying to squish in time to RP and work on RPs in the meantime, too - DexNet is almost ready to begin accepting applications, thankfully; managed to get Hoenn's info all done, Guin's done Kanto, and we seem to have most of the general game information posts done too. Just need to get Johto (which Peter was supposed to do, but I dunno what happened there) up, and we'll be good to go. I still need to work on Sinnoh, myself, but we won't have that region open at the beginning of the game, so it's probably okay if it's a little bit late - I did finally get the userinfos all done, which was a celebration of sorts.
I've also been having fun in Furc lately with a new friend, someone I bumped into with Icy a month or two back. It turns out she just 'inherited' a dream from the player of her character's brother, so now we're fixing it up and making it all spiffy - a lot of things had gotten broken in it during the last update, like floors being made unwalkable and such. She doesn't know much about patchwork or DS or anything, but I've got the rudiments from working at AKP, so it should turn out okay. We still dunno what the place's purpose will be yet, besides our characters' homes, but...
And, finally, I managed to get a shiny new laptop in the past month, a little Asus Eee 900. I'm typing this thing from it as we speak. I really like it - it's tiny, but does just what I need it to, and even though I'm not too familiar with Linux, I've managed to get it to do what I want thus far. I've only even had to restore it after completely fucking it up once, so far! :D (Turns out Xandros does not like WINE 1.0, or something; I somehow managed to break most of KDE while trying to install it.)
Aaanyways, it's about time I go and get some work done on DexNet or the HoC or that questionnaire, or something.
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Date: 2008-07-13 06:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-13 08:26 pm (UTC)I'm going to browse over the university's hiring pools, first, I think. They like to favour students for doing things like working in the library, bookstore, tech support, etc.
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Date: 2008-07-13 08:32 pm (UTC)It's a pretty good job for once you're done school though.
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Date: 2008-07-13 08:43 pm (UTC)I imagine it might be, although it's a call center, and I have an aversion of a high degree to phones. XD Not that I didn't work with them when I was a physiotherapy receptionist, no, but I don't know that I could spend all day on phones. I always end up tripping over my tongue on them.
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Date: 2008-07-13 08:46 pm (UTC)The technical knowledge side is harder than talking to people.
The upside is that it's banking, not like tech support or anything. You don't normally need to solve problems, you just follow instructions from the caller.
And use the hold button. A lot. It's encouraged, actually.
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Date: 2008-07-13 09:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-13 10:39 pm (UTC)"You mind if I put you on hold while I look this up? Thanks" is the norm. Check back in after no more than 2 minutes just to say "Thanks for waiting, this will take a while longer."
Is it going to take more than a few minutes? Offer to take their number and phone them back. It's the ultimate on-hold.
Most people are happy to hold.
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Date: 2008-07-14 04:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-26 10:07 pm (UTC)What do you like, what do you hate, is the keyboard really that cramped, etc?
Where did you buy it and how much was it after all the taxes and crap?
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Date: 2008-08-08 01:35 am (UTC)I don't really like the battery life that I get out of it - it dies a lot even when I put it into sleep mode (doesn't last more than a day or so without plugging it in when sleeping) so you actually have to turn it off to save power - but it could be that I don't have my power use stuff set up right. My opinion might also be coloured by my NDS usage - mine never dies on me, almost.
Also, the user manual kinda sucks, but Google makes a good substitute.
I don't find the keyboard too much of a problem, but then, I have pretty small hands.
I got it from the Langley NCIX - got mine for 620 after taxes, but I believe the price on them has gone down since, since they've got the 901s and 1000 series out now. I just checked their website - the 900s are down to 450 plus taxes, so you're probably looking at 515-520.
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Date: 2008-08-08 03:14 am (UTC)It is quite small, but the screen is big enough for me, once I tweaked fonts in Firefox.
Your opinion is colored by your DS. Battery life is very good compared to conventional laptops. Also, sleep on this isn't a proper hibernate, so it still uses a fair bit of juice. I get the advertised 2.5+ hours continuous active use on mine, but I consistently get significantly more time than that on the DS. Battery time is less of an issue for me as well. I mostly use it in places that have power, so it'll be plugged in anyways, and I never use sleep. Mostly it's so I can keep up with LJ drama and lolcats in bed.
http://wiki.eeeuser.com has been my lifeline, and helped me get many things tweaked nicely, including editing the easy mode tabs, adding new software, and enabling Full Desktop mode. Not that i've used it yet, but I like having the option.
My hands are big, and I could never touch type before, so the keyboard is a pain. If I were to do any serious amount of typing, I'd get an external keyboard for that.
I simply ordered online from NCIX - I couldn't find anywhere else that carried them. The 16G was pretty much on sale as best I could tell. It was 399 while the 20G (exact same model and specs, except for an extra 4 gigs drive space) was 550. With special discount ground shipping (6 bucks) and insurance (6 more bucks) it came out at 467 with tax. If I was going to be paying more than 500, I'd have just gone for a full laptop honestly.
True to my nature, I've been tweaking the hell out of it. Launcher Tools have gotten a lot of use.
The girlfriend loves it. She says she'd have gone for one of these instead of a full laptop if they'd been an option when she bought hers. She giggles and says it's "cute".
Have you been having issues with sound? Mine was constantly staticy and skippy, even on inbuilt software. Much searching found the solution
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Date: 2008-08-08 08:30 am (UTC)The Eeeuser Wiki I made profound use of, too. Got it working on the Full Desktop mode almost immediately, and it was helpful for getting stuff like WINE working. I like the full desktop better'n the easy mode, myself - it's just a more familiar interface, I guess.
Really, that expensive when you ordered? It's listed down today, although you do admittedly need to send in a mail-in-rebate to get your hundred bucks back. My boyfriend's dad got his a week or two ago and did that.
I have been getting a lot of 'cute' comments whenever I pull it out at school. Most people have seen the 7-inchers, but the 900's more appealing since it's not quite so teensy-tiny for the eyes.
No, no issues with the sound that I've noticed... I'm actually using it right now to listen to a recording I did on it for that internet-and-language-change paper. I'll see if that command makes any difference, maybe.
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Date: 2008-08-08 08:34 am (UTC)As for the keyboard issue, they sell these nifty rubbery USB ones that're full-sized. Easy to roll up and transport, although you do need a hard surface to spread them out on to use. The boyfriend got one to go with his XO (bright green, even, to match, hehe). I haven't seen the need for it with the Eee, but they're an option.
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Date: 2008-08-08 09:38 am (UTC)I don't look at rebates. I've seen many posting about it, and reporting rebate times of up to 6 MONTHS, and many having the rebate company refuse to pay up. 2-3 months is normal. After that long, I'll have forgotten about the damn thing, so it might as well be full price. If nothing else, I'd have had to pay the list price upfront, which would be a serious psychological wall.
The main thing that stood out to me is that the list price on the 26G was 400, while list on the 20G was 550... that's a HUGE difference for 4 gigs, and no rebate hassle. The 26 gigs gives me enough space to put some media on it
Guys seem to think it's cool while girls tend to find it cute. Figures. I am comfortably in the Nifty camp.
Ever played Frozen Bubble? I noticed several people mentioning it specifically in threads about sound. Coincidentally, it was the first thing I ever opened on here. *shrugs*
We should totally get together for $preferred_cafe_beverage sometime. We can even amuse the patrons by both whipping out our Eees and appearing to ignore each other :)
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Date: 2008-08-12 08:06 am (UTC)Hnn, fair enough.
Nifty is a common response around the comp-sci common room, up on campus. A bunch of the guys have them - well, the 700s, anywhoo, I being the only person with a 900 yet - and it's hilarious when we all sit down to a meeting and there's a table full of Eee users and a table full of everyone-else.
Only game I've played on it, yes (loves me some Puzzle Bobble), and now that you mention it, it was kinda laggy in the sound. I was attributing it to the entire game being a bit laggy, but perhaps it was this sound thing instead. I think it must only be the games that are affected, though - I didn't notice a thing when I was listening to that recording I made.
Tabletop IM conversation? :D
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Date: 2008-08-12 09:12 am (UTC)I hadn't realized they would be that popular among students. It is a handy netbook, but students generally need a higher performance, fully featured computer for coursework. Screen is too small on the 700, but I find the 9 inch screen to be very nice on this.
Of course. Hell, I just spent 4 days in a motel with my girlfriend on a trip, and we spent large amounts of time ignoring each other while we tapped away on opposite sides of the room. We would notice this every few hours, call each other huge dorks, and resume being said dorks, It's nice when you understand each other like that.
When would be good to get together for you?
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Date: 2008-08-12 08:55 pm (UTC)"students generally need a higher performance, fully featured computer for coursework"
Where 'coursework' means 'playing WoW in the common room between classes', sure. For actual coursework, all you generally need is Internet access, a word processor (preferably one that does PDFs), a spreadsheet program, a presentation program, and (at least, for comp sci) a terminal tricked out with all the compilers you might need for your project. Version control software is also handy, but not necessary. Turns out the Eee can handle all of the above.
As an example, I need only cite the fact that I did my entire socioling paper and project on my Eee; didn't even touch my desktop for it. This meant I a) gathered my statistics on it, b) made a fifteen-minute presentation on it, c) recorded an hour and a half of speech onto it (and then cleaned it up and compressed it), d) organized the stats on a spreadsheet and made graphs, and e) actually wrote the paper. The only thing I did with my desktop was print the damn thing, as I didn't want to bother with unplugging the printer from my desktop.
Any student who says they need a higher-performance computer is only in it for the games that they can waste time with during lecture.
I don't think my boyfriend and I have ever done that, but then, he hates computers (even though he's a genius with them). He'd much rather be up and about doing something outside.
Actually, we're finally getting up to the point where I have a little bit of free time - this week's out as I've still got a final and some other work to take care of, but the week after until September, I'll be free (except for when I'm not).
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Date: 2008-08-13 07:43 am (UTC)You win this time, Dragon... but I still expected the Eee to not appeal to students.
Note: I do not lump you in with students. You intelligence exceeds the average student's by a few standard deviations. You understand the real purpose behind getting and using a computer that is deliberately small and underpowered.
Although I do plan to set up a workstation for this in a while. A desk with an external keyboard, mouse, speakers and possibly monitor for use at home.
I'd never used Google Docs before the Eee. I'd used Gmail before just so I had some email I could check from work (I've used pop3 exclusively beforehand my entire life), but the prominent links for gdocs in the Eee made me try it. Also, I've found myself working on RPG related docs at work during slow times. Easier to do them on gdocs then to email copies back and forth every day.
There are some great games you can play on the Eee, like Wesnoth and Quake. They're just not warcrack.
Lets see, this week I'm booked up. Days I could feasibly meet you include Saturdays the 23rd and 30th. I'm totally free those days. Friday the 22nd I start work at 4pm, so I'm open for lunchly type stuff. Sun-Mon-Tues every week I start at 2:30, so I aim to be on the train by about 1:40, so I'm good before then. Except Tuesday the 26th I'm just off completely. I'm also off every Wednesday. However, I typically spend those with the GF. She'd be happy to tag along though, so those are also options.
Any day not mentioned above just won't work for me.
Make what you will of this and let me know.
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Date: 2008-08-20 11:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-25 05:33 am (UTC)Well, the boyfriend and I have plans tomorrow, so that's no good. The weekends generally are busy for me, and I wouldn't want to encroach on your hangy-outy time with your girlfriend, so that leaves Tuesday and Friday.
Although, do either of those days work with your new schedule?
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Date: 2008-08-25 06:28 am (UTC)Friday I'm at work until 5pm at Main St station, takes about 40 mins to reach Surrey Central from there.
Take your pick. When, where, what... go ahead and decide. If I don't like said plans, we'll figure it out after I get there :)
As long as you let me know by, oh... midnight Monday, I can make it. Though I greatly prefer something not first thing in the morning. I normally wake up around 11:30 these days.
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Date: 2008-08-26 06:48 am (UTC)Friday evening probably isn't good, nope. Which leaves tomorrow, which is actually dandy, since me boyfriend's going to be busy the whole day anywhoo, and I've got nothing planned.
Uh. Coffee sound fine? I actually don't know where any really decent cafes are in Surrey (I usually end up imbibing closer to campus), but... Just because I know of the location, at least, the Starbucks over on 152nd and 102ish? Although if you know any place better, feel free to suggest.
2:00, perhaps?
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Date: 2008-08-26 07:00 am (UTC)Coffee works. It's suitably generic and public and all that jazz.
I'll end up with a chai anyways.
I know not any decent cafes, as I don't ever go to them. Can't afford it :) I tend to brew and drink my tea a litre at a time.
I can certainly find my way there by 2pm. I shall be the guy with the puffy curly hair who is either playing on a DS or intently staring at his cell phone.
Any other plans, things I should bring, or roms I should put on my R4?
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Date: 2008-08-26 07:14 am (UTC)I'll wear my Goomba hat. I think it's a pretty fair unique identifier.
Aah, crap, I don't even remember what I've got on mine at the moment that's multiplayer... Uh, Mario Kart and Meteos, anywhoo. Mario Party isn't bad, although draggy-onny. The minigames are usually fun, at least. I think I have Advance Wars DS, but I've never played it. I've got Metroid Prime Hunters as well, although I'm probably pretty terrible at it, having not played it in a while (although I did finally beat Prime 3 on Veteran tonight, mwaha).
So, aside from that, whatever?
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Date: 2008-08-26 07:20 am (UTC)But I think I already have all of them (save Meteos) on there already. Figures.
Ahh, the Goomba hat. No way I could miss you then... unless I'm too deep into the book I'm reading on my phone.
I've missed emergency vehicles, sirens blaring, because of that.
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Date: 2008-08-26 07:41 am (UTC)Reading books on a phone? I would've thought the screen size too small to do that well.
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Date: 2008-08-26 07:45 am (UTC)The single most useful feature, though?
It's backlit, so I can read in the dark. On the bus.
Also, I can fit a whole trilogy on said phone.
I tried it as proof of concept first... and now I haven't read a dead tree in almost a year.
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Date: 2008-08-27 03:28 am (UTC)Mine was supposed to go by 6:45. Nada. 7:00. Nope. After half an hour standing in the rain, it finally shows at 7:15.
And gets me to Surrey Central just in time to watch my bus pull out.
Another half hour wait... under cover at least.
I love transit
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Date: 2008-08-10 11:00 am (UTC)Re: I should say
Date: 2008-08-12 08:01 am (UTC)well done
Date: 2008-09-25 08:13 pm (UTC)thanks much
Date: 2008-09-28 08:23 pm (UTC)thanks much
Date: 2008-10-09 10:27 am (UTC)