Pete's Log: Party at George's
Entry #1155, (Life in General)(posted when I was 23 years old.)
This weekend was a good one. George was throwing a party at his place in Ann Arbor, and had been kind enough to send the invitation to a bunch of ND kids as well as a ton of Michigan people. So Andy and I decided to take George up on his invite.
Unfortunately, things didn't quite work out as planned, and communication went askew, and so instead of being on the road before 16:00, we didn't leave South Bend until about 18:30. So by the time we made it to Ann Arbor, the party had already started and we were still starving. So we met up with Anne and grabbed some dinner before heading to the party. We went to a place called Azure's Mediterranean Grill. It was pretty good, I had some amazing Tabouli. So we finally got to the party, and had a great time there. I spent most of the time talking with George or Anne, which was fun, it was nice to talk to them. But I also had some interesting conversations with other Michigan people. I got to spend some time translating and explaining the lyrics of Rammstein's "Du Hast" and I got into an interesting discussion with an older, somewhat bitter grad student. His basic philosophy appeared to be that computer scientists were worthless. He was an ex-cs who had switched to EE sometime after his masters. But his basic point was that computer engineers had come up with all sorts of amazing architectural schemes and such, and that computer scientists had failed to take advantage of them. For the most part he wasn't taking my observations too seriously (I did actually agree with a lot of what he had to say, I simply felt that his point was no valid reason for me to give up on CS myself, but instead a reason for me to be motivated to work harder) but at some point he mentioned Arvind, and when he learned that I had not only heard of him, but read several papers of his, he began taking me more seriously. It was entertaining.
Sometime after three the party died and Andy and I went to Anne's place where I quickly fell asleep. The next morning we woke up, contacted George, and made for downtoan Ann Arbor to find food. I enjoyed wandering around Ann Arbor, it seems to be a cool little college town. There looked to be a lot of fun little restaurants and shops. After our downtown excursion the four of us hung out at Anne's place for a while before Andy and I hit the road back to South Bend.
It was a lot of fun to see George and Anne again, and it was neat to see their places in Ann Arbor. The party was plenty o' fun.
Last night I slept really really well. It was amazing. Today I watched the Bears Packers game at Paul's house, which was fun. Plenty of good fun was to be had. I brought waffles. Packers won, which made Rob happy and Paul sad.
Now I've been hanging out at fitz reading and such. But I was distracted from my work when I heard something at the door. I went to investigate and discovered that the little block of wood we use to prop the door open had vanished. I wandered down the hall and found a couple people just about to use it to prop open another door. They were amused to have been caught and were friendly and gave it back. I successfully defended the honor of the SSR, I feel. Back to work.