So, this morning I woke up exactly at 10.33am and that is exactly when my alarm rang and I was just impressed by this alignment of… I dunno… stuff? Or maybe I'm a cell phone at heart too. Why 10.33? Well, it's nothing fancy. My alarm was actually set for 10.30 but the big clock that I look at is not 5, not 10, but exactly 3 minutes fast. Anyway, so there was this whole Cedro (my dorm... ex-dorm) reunion thing.
So we had brunch at Lauren's (never mentioned her on this blog before, so yay for Lauren) and then went for ice skating. I was apprehensive about ice skating, having never really skated before, and I wasn't wrong. It was hard, and although I didn't fall until I compelled myself to (I thought it was somewhat customary that I should fall on my first day of skating), I didn't go very far in terms of skating either. My feet kept bending inwards, I was unable to correct that problem and so my ankles started hurting like hell very soon. I took retirement from the activity and sat down and watched my friends skate instead. Incidentally, most of my friends are pretty good at this and I honestly had more fun watching them skate than skate myself. I don't think they believed that I was getting immense amounts of pleasure watching people perform neat little spinny things and were taking pity on me, and that was sad mostly because they thought I wasn't having fun.
I guess ice skating's just not my thing. It's not like I went with the purpose of ice skating anyway. The main purpose of these gatherings is usually just to hang out with friends, and stuff like this, in my opinion, is merely an excuse. That's all "imho" obviously. Anyway, I chatted with Adam (eh, most of you don't know him - just another guy with just another name) later today, who unfortunately couldn't make it to the whole get-together thing because of work, and he said that he didn't like ice skating either and that somehow really cheered me up because I thought perhaps something was wrong with me since I didn't enjoy ice skating while all the others were apparently having the time of their lives.
Once we got back to campus though, I did manage to stop by the Apple Store at Palo Alto and check out the new Mac Pros. Really fast, but really boring. YAWN! Case design… needs… changing. Apple is becoming… lazy.
Also, I had a lot of work to do since my job ends on Friday and I have to complete some stuff no matter what, so I decided to go home and do some of it instead of hanging out with the group for another eight hours until midnight. Got next to nothing done, but hey, at least I made the effort. Heard they played frisbee and read books… meh, wouldn't have enjoyed that anyway, because it wasn't Harry Potter. Ordered pizza from Pizza-My-Heart this time. Not worth it. I'm sticking to Domino's - they definitely deliver fresher even if they do have next to no options in toppings. Also, watched Ocean's Eleven yesterday and Ocean's Twelve today. Eleven was tons better but Twelve, in its own right, wasn't a bad movie either. Funny, mostly. I'd say 6.5/10 and 5/10 respectively. On the obvious scale.
Also, Parallels Desktop runs extremely slowly on this MacBook. Don't know why. It has Intel's VT technology and everything. OS X slows down as if it were travelling at 85% the speed of light. Just thought I'd put that out there.
So we had brunch at Lauren's (never mentioned her on this blog before, so yay for Lauren) and then went for ice skating. I was apprehensive about ice skating, having never really skated before, and I wasn't wrong. It was hard, and although I didn't fall until I compelled myself to (I thought it was somewhat customary that I should fall on my first day of skating), I didn't go very far in terms of skating either. My feet kept bending inwards, I was unable to correct that problem and so my ankles started hurting like hell very soon. I took retirement from the activity and sat down and watched my friends skate instead. Incidentally, most of my friends are pretty good at this and I honestly had more fun watching them skate than skate myself. I don't think they believed that I was getting immense amounts of pleasure watching people perform neat little spinny things and were taking pity on me, and that was sad mostly because they thought I wasn't having fun.
I guess ice skating's just not my thing. It's not like I went with the purpose of ice skating anyway. The main purpose of these gatherings is usually just to hang out with friends, and stuff like this, in my opinion, is merely an excuse. That's all "imho" obviously. Anyway, I chatted with Adam (eh, most of you don't know him - just another guy with just another name) later today, who unfortunately couldn't make it to the whole get-together thing because of work, and he said that he didn't like ice skating either and that somehow really cheered me up because I thought perhaps something was wrong with me since I didn't enjoy ice skating while all the others were apparently having the time of their lives.
Once we got back to campus though, I did manage to stop by the Apple Store at Palo Alto and check out the new Mac Pros. Really fast, but really boring. YAWN! Case design… needs… changing. Apple is becoming… lazy.
Also, I had a lot of work to do since my job ends on Friday and I have to complete some stuff no matter what, so I decided to go home and do some of it instead of hanging out with the group for another eight hours until midnight. Got next to nothing done, but hey, at least I made the effort. Heard they played frisbee and read books… meh, wouldn't have enjoyed that anyway, because it wasn't Harry Potter. Ordered pizza from Pizza-My-Heart this time. Not worth it. I'm sticking to Domino's - they definitely deliver fresher even if they do have next to no options in toppings. Also, watched Ocean's Eleven yesterday and Ocean's Twelve today. Eleven was tons better but Twelve, in its own right, wasn't a bad movie either. Funny, mostly. I'd say 6.5/10 and 5/10 respectively. On the obvious scale.
Also, Parallels Desktop runs extremely slowly on this MacBook. Don't know why. It has Intel's VT technology and everything. OS X slows down as if it were travelling at 85% the speed of light. Just thought I'd put that out there.
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