Friday, Sept. 21, 2007
9PM: Read the XKCD Forum. Meetup is this weekend in Cambridge? How did I forget! Gotta be there.
10PM: "Yo Alex, you read XKCD? Meetup? Can I crash for a night? Sweet."
11PM: Look at bus tickets. Hmmm.... I have a lot of homework this weekend...
12PM: Start homework. Set alarm clock for early, just in case.
1AM: Ugh..... Friggin Java compiler is broken.
2AM: Forget it, I'm going to sleep.
Saturday
10AM: Wake up early. Yea, this is early for me. Time to make a final decision, do I go or do I stay?
11AM: Buying bus tickets. Click, click, click. Hmm... I need food too. Pour Honey Bunches of Oats into a zip lock bag.
12PM: Out the door! A journey of a three hundred miles starts with a single step. But then there's a lot of sitting if you want to get there in any kind of time. The subway takes me to Chinatown, and I get on a bus headed for New York.
1PM: Doing probability homework on the bus. The best seats are the ones in the very last row. True, you're right next to the bathroom, but that middle seat is almost never taken, so you have extra room if you're in the window seat. And if you're in the aisle seat you can stretch your legs out.
2PM: Get to New York. Wander around lost for a bit. I really don't know my way around this city very well, and the street signs aren't labeled with the cardinal directions like they are in Philly. There's nice 3G coverage for my cell phone though, so I get on Google Maps Mobile and find my way. Stop at a little bakery and get some food too.
3PM: On the bus to Boston! More homework, blah.
7PM: Boston!
8PM: Harvard Square for dinner. It's great to be with people who I haven't seen for so long, but it feels like no time has passed at all. We stayed in the restaurant after finishing up our food, even long after the wait staff started giving us significant, "we're trying to close up and clean, so hurry up and leave" looks.
11PM: Turn in for the night at MIT's Theta Xi house on the Boston side of the river.
Sunday
9AM: An early morning, I never seem to sleep right the first night away from a familiar bed, but a lazy morning. Pick up Hitchhiker's Guide off the bookshelf and read a bit. Play some Guitar Hero. I'm really bad at Guitar Hero.
12PM: Get some lunch, and then walk across the river to the Cambridge side. No rush, no rush.
2PM: In Harvard Square again, getting ready to Davis as 2:38, and the XKCD meetup draws near. At 2:38 hundreds of geeks are supposed to show up at a park in Davis.
2:23PM: Getting off the subway at Davis. Wow... a lot of people are getting off at this stop, and all heading in the same direction. And I see a lot of dorky T-shirts and tech company logos...
2:30PM: Yep, everyone's headed the same place, and this little park is packed. So many nerdy people..... I don't think I've ever seen this many nerdy people in one place before.
2:38PM: Cheering!
2:39PM: Randall shows up! Someone yells something about "the messiah." lol
2:40PM: Draw an alternate ending on a giant sized version of the comic. Haha, the forum moderators are moderating in red ink.
2:45PM: Now what? People are getting signatures from Randall, (one girl got her boobs signed...), I see people dueling with fake swords, spot someone wearing chainmail, someone has a snake around their neck, someone's dancing to some very funky beats in a suit with a raptor head, four or five tape measures are being extended upwards, someone's marching around with a "Citation Needed" sign and nearly every shirt has a witty science joke, math equations, or the letters MIT displayed. Fun!
3:45PM: I leave. Would be great to stay longer, but if I want to get back to Philadelphia at a half decent hour, I can't. So it's back to South Station to catch the 4:30 bus.
9PM: In New York City. Get back on the bus to Philly.
12PM: Back to the dorm room.
1AM: Start homework. Again.
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