First, on Saturday I went to a football game with some other grad students, but I forgot my camera. It was a BC Lions game at the temporary Empire field. I think I may have seen one of their games before but it was a long time ago. The other grad students were mostly international students who had never watched a football game before.
The game was rather boring. They were playing Edmonton, one of the only teams in the league that had a worse record then them. Edmonton managed to pull ahead and it got exciting at the end when BC managed to tie it up. Then it went into overtime and BC lost. There were some weird calls by the refs that we couldn't figure out which sucked.
During the game there were a lot of little orange footballs thrown into the crowd. Some people took these and threw them at the cheerleaders and lots of people threw them on the field at the end of the game. Also, there were 2 and a half streakers that ran onto the field. One guy made it all the way from one end to the other dodging many security guys and an Eskimos player before he was tackled in the far corner. Another guy knocked down a couple of the security guards before he was grabbed. They announced a few times that any fans running onto the field would be arrested whether they're wearing clothes or not.
So another thing I had on Saturday night which was actually scheduled to start at the exact same time was a LAN party. My friend Nate hosted one and I showed up really late - after the football game and transit back to Surrey. I've never been to a LAN party and I suck at computer games but it was still lots of fun. We played Team Fortress 2 and Unreal Tournament. I also played a little Portal at the end of the night. It was a really late night!
On Monday I went over to my grandmas to celebrate my birthday with a few relatives. My brother, grandma, cousins and aunt were there and we had some ice cream cake with a smilie face on it.I went there on Monday because Tuesday (my actual birthday) was quite busy. I usually have a few meetings at school plus ultimate in the evening. My research group is busy preparing for a conference that I leave for on Friday. We needed to spend our group meeting looking at our poster and our slides to get them in good shape, but everyone was taking forever showing up and getting ready to go. Finally everyone was there and then they brought in a cake and sang Happy Birthday! By that point I kind of guessed that was going on, but that didn't make it any less awesome. It was a lemon meringue cake and very good. We ate it while having our meeting.
That night I went to ultimate and got the usual hardcore workout. My friend Adam showed up who hasn't come in forever. I had tried to get people to come out to ultimate and/or the pub afterwards to celebrate. So, after ultimate Gordon drove us to the pub where a bunch of my friends were waiting and we hung out for a bit. They bought me a King Kong shot, a dirty martini, and a flaming lamborghini. The shots were quite good when I expected them to be strong, they instead tasted great. It was a fun time and a good casual celebration of my birthday.
I've been busy pretty continuously since then, getting ready for the conference and my normal routine. I went to indoor soccer again this week and some people showed up. We played a couple games of 3 on 3 and hopefully more people show up in the future. Also, I went to the documentary night some grad students organized and we watched Man on Wire about the guy who walked on a wire between the world trade center towers. It was very dramatically done and entertaining. I also went to the swim night and this time we had it at the Newton Wave pool. I swear it used to have a big rectangular pool as part of it but now it's gone...replaced with gyms. Also, the bit of the waterslide that goes outside, that you see from the bus station, is now a lie. It's not part of a functional waterslide anymore, although there are still 2 waterslides.
Yeah, so life has been crazy with me fitting in time for these things around my thesis writing time and my prep time for this conference. Friday we drive across the border and stay in Seattle and then Saturday morning we fly to Salt Lake City where the conference is. I am a student volunteer at the conference putting in 22 hours of my time. Also, I will be making a short 3-minute presentation on Sunday morning, and then demoing our software many times throughout the week. I'm excited.
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