THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN

Well, exams ended on Tuesday and the mass exodus of undergrads have begun. On Wednesday, I saw plenty of cars, vans, and trucks filled with belongings as students headed off to wherever they live during the summer.

The campus will become a lot quieter and less crowded now. Summer at UBC is my favourite time to be on campus. The weather is nice and you don't have to fight your way through throngs of people.

Unfortunately, the arrival of summer also means the end of the U-Pass for the year. U-Pass was our cheap bus pass for the year. It allowed UBC students go anywhere for a fraction of a regular bus pass. No worrying about transfers and no worrying about zones. Stupidly, the AMS and Translink could only agree to make the U-Pass go from September to the end of April. This despite the existence of summer classes, not to the mention that grad students are in school 12 months of the year. A broadcast e-mail was just sent out tonight about the earliest a summer U-Pass could be instituted... summer of 2005. I'll be done by then. Guess who does have a summer U-Pass though? SFU students...

In other news, unlike last summer, I actually have some guarded optimism about getting a summer job this year. Last year, I fretted for about a month before I pulled a horseshoe out of my butt and landed a great job on campus. Things are much better this time around. I don't want to jinx it, so I'll keep quiet for now.

Alright, I gotta go do some stuff. Later.

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PROJECTIONIST BOOTH

I was going through some files on the old hard drive tonight. I found a picture I took when I had the LCD projector for my lecture here at SJC. They give you the projector the day of the talk and you get to keep it almost twenty-four hours.

I got the thing in the afternoon and even though I was supposed to study, I couldn't help but set it up with my computer. I placed it on my desk and had it face the wall next to my bed. It was awesome seeing my Windows desktop that big on the wall. E-mail was larger than life! It was like surfing the Internet on a huge billboard sized screen. Later, some guy told me porn must have looked great too at that size, but I wouldn't know anything about that.

Of course, I had to try out some DVDs, and it did not disappoint. In a perfect world, every room here at SJC would have an LCD projector mounted in the ceiling.

Take a gander at how movies look at my wall. A prize goes to the first person to correctly identify the movie I was watching (it's a gimme).

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FREE TIME IS TIRING

Do you know that relaxing can be tiring? Even doing nothing can take a toil on you. Well, not that I've doing been exactly nothing. I played a lot of sports on the weekend (for me). Two hours of hockey on Saturday and then tennis for the first time on Sunday. I was a bit sore today.

I also went to a housewarming on Saturday night. This was attended by people from my junior and senior high days. Some of these people I haven't seen for years. You know what? People do get better with age. Suprisingly, a few of my old classmates mentioned they read this site. I think a few of them just saw my site once, but just in case I do have some regulars, I'll say hi to Fraser, Col, and Jenn.

I bought a game on Friday, it's called Contract J.A.C.K., the official prequel to No One Lives Forever 2. I finished it last night. Wow. I paid $30 for it, I expected it'd be longer. I played it on normal difficultly and I felt challenged. It was a good game, just not long enough. I was in Future Shop again today, and I did feel the urge to buy another title. That's just not smart though, $30 every two days for games.

Tomorrow, I gotta focus on getting some errands done. I gotta leave the fun behind for a day. I have to pay some library fines, get a free copy of WinXP Pro from the CS department, put in my TA assignments requests for September, and clean my bathroom.

Though I'm kinda tired right now, I feel like chatting with someone right now. The problem is it's 1:30am and most people are in bed right now. There are not enough night owls in this world. I'm looking at my MSN list and most people are either offline or away (probably in bed). There's one guy who might be awake here at SJC that I'd like to talk to, but he's doing thesis work tonight. I need a late-night chat buddy to just shoot the breeze.

Here's a totally off-topic fact, the smaller window in my room won't close. A sliding mechanism in the window has seized up. Luckily it's been warm out and I'm a lazy ass, so it hasn't been a problem.

I can tell exams wil done tomorrow, I can hear the undergrads from Vanier yelling their heads off outside. If I cared more, I'd shake my ornery, gnarled fist at them. Back in my day, exams last three months and you didn't drink beer afterwards, all you had was Ovaltine... and you liked it!

Well, let's end the ramblings here. I'm getting hungry and Family Guy Vol. 2 is on my desk.

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AND WE'RE BACK

Due to an unknown issue, my web server and mail server was down for about a day, but it's all good now. As always, the status of this site is available at http://www.geocities.com/erwintangdotcom/.

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