ThePanda

I have a feeling I should write something before we get too far and I have to weave a yarn too long just to let people know where the yarn lies today. So let us first cover the basic points, I am back in Providence, my flight was OK, mostly uneventful (a lack of food on my BA flight was duly noted, thoughts of hatred for Gate Gourmet workers duly generated), and umm yup, I got back to Providence, the house was empty then, is occupied now, and so far it has been smooth sailing, relatively speaking of course, well smooth sailing if you disregard how much of this house is falling apart, we have had Facilities Management come in at least 5 times a week and repair something or the other, and I still have about 7 open trouble tickets on the system, kind of awful, but umm I guess that’s what you guess for living in a student house. Everything else though, has been pretty darn awesome, we have been trying, rather unsuccessfully to sneak into freshman orientation events, I met one of IAN’s friends who was really cool, and seemed to be doing well, I met TFB, and umm we played boggle, and discussed math, but mostly played boggle, and the only thing still missing I guess, is meeting all the other people I know in Providence (WNS comes to mind), meeting SCE, and umm getting to classes, which happens tomorrow, so yay for that. Oh I also met JH, and he was interesting as usual, and umm seemed a lot more sure of things than PK, though I am not sure how much sophomore year advising affects me, though I have a class meeting to hear about such things tomorrow, and I am sure that’ll be fun, when it comes around to that. I am also disappointed that I might after all, not be doing Cryptography, there were conflicts in the schedule, and I guess not doing it, and doing either Combinatorial Optimization (which is fun because it involves bunnies, and other things), or Models of Computation (fun because it involves being with people I know, some of whom would never really be seen otherwise, and is one of those CS concentration requirement there really isn’t much of a replacement for). I also got a concentration form, and when I started out with it, I was kind of sure I should fill it up, though now it’s languishing on my desk, and I have a feeling I am not really going to fill it up anytime soon, and umm, I don’t know…

Help Desk, yup I have been working for them, long and hard, since there is not much of anything else to work on currently, and umm most of the people seem really nice, at least that’s a consolation, though most of the people who I have talked to or walked around helping, have been sort of nice. And then there was this guy I was having a cough*discussion*cough about network security at Brown and the CS department with, and I am surprised. Like people are sometimes weird and anal, he believes the CS departments opening itself to vulnerabilities by allowing SSH connection in, like why the hell would people have the CS department if students couldn’t even access things in there, is stupid in my opinion. And there was this guy who freaked me out, and drove me out by talking about dual monitors and such things, but other than that it is fun, I guess, though I sure as hell am looking forward to tomorrow, when this stops being the focal point of my daytime life.

I really haven’t done that much, so there isn’t much to write about, once we get into tomorrow, and classes get good and groovy, I think I’ll finally have fodder to write about. BTW, it is not a good idea to gently rinse keyboards in warm water.

Ze Panda

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