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September 30, 2003
It's Tuesday again, amazingly enough.
It's Tuesday again, amazingly enough. This past weekend went by in a blur, even if nothing exciting happened. Yesterday, we had the C3S Industry Affiliates retreat. I was supposed to be a give a talk there, but our department head had suddenly decided that no students were allowed to give talks there, so I got relegated to the poster session there. Stupidly enough, my project has nothing to do with security (at the moment), but my advisor seemed pretty insistent that I go anyway. The retreat itself was pretty good, albeit a little unorganized. My favorite was when all the students and IAs were outside milling around the posters, starving to death because it was 6:45 and dinner wasn't supposed to be served until 7:30. While we were all moping about the lack of food, appetizers were actually being served inside in the dining area. However, since the organizers had failed to tell us, we were all just standing there being half eaten by hunger and trying to carry on semi-technical conversations. It was only until later that we found out the only reason we were not notified about the food was because the lady that was supposed to tell us that the food was ready was too damn busy inside the room eating the food herself. UGH.
But yeah...I got to talk to a few really cool IAs there, which was nice. I pulled a classic Ginger move though when I was talking to this really interesting IA at the food buffet line (one that I had been dying to talk to), and he actually asked if he could sit at dinner with me! Imagine my excitement. But what did I do to screw the entire thing up? I SAT US AT A TABLE WHERE WE COULD NOT SIT TOGETHER. I thought I was going to hit myself. Ugh. Aren't I smart? Well, on the bright side, after dinner I was able to talk to him again and asked him I could meet up with him the next day to talk some more and he said yes! :) So, the entire episode was not a complete flop. Yay.
Posted by szujin at September 30, 2003 02:13 PM