Long lunch and Robo Rally

So today I had lunch with my work group. It was a good thing to do to schmooze with the guys. On the other hand I felt much like I did at the USGS. Regardless of how well I get along with men, the concerns and interests of our group are not my own. And a two hour long lunch with these guys is quite a long time. It was great food though... best falafel I hav ever had and really cheap. I don't know.. I liked being included but I still don't feel like I belong. I like to work with most of these folks but I am not sure if I like hanging out with them.

I played Robo Rally again last night. God I love that game. Three cheers for Robo Rally. I have all kinds of neat ideas on how to make it fun as a computer game. Would love to do something like that. but I have no game programming skills. I have lots of friends who always wanted to do stuff like that but it has never been my thing. Now I am totally enthused about it and thinking about it a lot.

So today I get an email from my school telling me that I have indeed gotten a living assignment for next year in a fairly nice grad dorm. Coincidentally yesterday my soon to be roommate sent of her copy of the application for our apt. I really don't want to live on campus and have already declined the apt. I really am excited to be moving where I am moving too and therefore to be closer to my friends etc. On the other hand it is tempting to spend less money on rent and be closer to my lab. Oh well. To be honest if you don't count the intermediate T ride from the place I am moving to to the lab it is about the same length commute. And since I will be on the T, I will get to read or something. Which isn't half bad. I will be closer to the gym and not living in an institutional style cube. I think its good to get away from the lab and to be living with someone I know that I like instead of taking the luck of the draw. On the other hand it was tempting. I did decline it though so on with the moving plans.

I get to go home soon yay!!! Back to the mountains and all the people I adore for at least 8 days. Hell one of my best friends has been dating a guy for months that I have never met. Its about time that I go home. I wasn't sure if I was going to get to because I was afraid that my advisor would give me a hard time... and he did... he said he would rather I not leave until my project is done but if I wait that long then my parents will be in school again and it will be a lot less nice for me to go home then. So he will just have to deal. I am very excited to go home as I haven't been there since January. Yay!!!

Am spending most of the day trying to track down little things in the code so that if I get the time I want on the parallel computering cluster that I will be ready. Boring.

My roommate should be home right now. Was unable to finish dishes or mop kitchen and bathroom before she came home. I hope she had a great time in italy and I hope she remembered my birthday present which she forgot when she went there at Christmas time. I know that it is rather mercenary for me to be thinking of presents but well I am rather mercenary.

My officemate and I were talking today. We both hope that the new grad student who is supposed to share our office gets given another office. We had the officemate from hell for most of the year and have been really enjoying having the place to ourselves.. especially since we are both nice girls. As she said we would prefer to have someone else here who is jaded like we are and not keen as he seems to be. In any case I think it would be nicer if we could keep the place to ourselves as well. We shall see.

I really like sushi. My friends introduced me to it about a month and a half ago and now I am addicted. I especially like maki and salmon... haven't tried anything too scary yet. I want some now.. but cannot get any to which I say phooey.

As usual you guys can see that my journal is very cerebral. Sorry am braindead today.