more linkage, and reunion days (it seems)

hehe, seems like I'm linking to everything nowadays...

http://www.ualberta.ca/~aoleung/ follow the magic listbox

Plus I've added Panda-Cam from the San Diego Zoo on the sidebar. Pandas rock.

In other news, had grad orientation. Slightly smaller scale than WOW, so we got one room in ETLC. People were lining up along the stairs and in front of the door to listen to people talk about stuff. Things I've learned:

1) People like to stare at people with crutches and bionic legs. :P
2) Speeches are basically about the same stuff as undergrad with "graduate" inserted.

Left after 15 minutes because I found out what I needed to know: Health Plan starts Sept 1, so nothing in August is covered. Crap. Well, Mat Johnson better cough up the money for that textbook so I can pay for my brace! :P

Today seems like one big reunion. Saw some people that I haven't seen since April. Went for lunch at Cafe Mosaics with Trish, Dallas, and Jess, good vegetarian food (potato, carrot and onion quesadillas? genius!). Trish is doing CompE MSc with Dr. Dyck (crazy guy apparently), Dallas is doing Environmental Eng at GMac (wants to retire at 30), and Jess is currently licensed to sell life insurance (I should probably get some, considering :P) and considering teaching English in Japan.

At the grad info session, ran into (well, I sat and they came to talk to me) Isaac, Dave and Jon. Isaac is doing stuff with silicon nano-crystals in Physics, Dave is in Controls/Robotics in EE, and Jon is in CompSci also doing stuff with Robotics. Everyone's stayed pretty close to their interests, and they haven't changed too much in 4 months (wouldn't expect it, but who knows).

Headed over to the Grad BBQ, saw Jason Ng; he's working for Dr. Dew, and helping out with ARVP (who wouldn't play with big robots? :P). They were holding the Engineering BBQ outside ETLC at the same time, so heard several "40 Beers" chants going on. Man, did we sound like a mass cult gathering when we were in first year? Scary. Dr. Brett and Dr. Koles were there, was going to say hi but Dean Lynch and a crony got to them first. Didn't want to interrupt, seeing as Deaner might have seen our movie :P.

Guess who I saw at the BBQ? Lushi! I thought she was gone to Malaysia for good, but seems it was only a summer-long visit. She's also in Biomed, but in the neural prosthetic/paralysis compensation side, working out of the glass building with all the pipes by Med Sci. She's actually living not too far away, 107 St and 80 Ave. Haha, that makes 5 people I know in a 4-block radius, should have a street party sometime. ^^

Well, that wraps up the reunions. I wonder who else is still here; Aaron is in Waterloo, Wes is at Carleton, Dave Zeibin is at UBC (doing architecture), Taylor is in the Air Force and Adrian I believe is going to Ottawa. AFAIK, everyone else is either still finishing up or doing undergrad here.

Hey, for all those in Edmonton and reading this, I'll be holding a potluck in about three weeks or so (before the last week of September probably) so keep it open. C&M for those in the know will be after I get this bloody brace off. >:)

cheers, Ange (all gradded out)