Ktria's Little World

I guess today has been a day for following my whims. I got into campus early and put in a couple of hours of work on my project. Lately I've been stuck in Javascript hell, so I've had to force myself to actually work on it, but today I really got into it and felt like I was accomplishing something. My agile methods seminar was a lot of fun - Julia gave a talk about her "real world" experiences working as a developer. Now I'm not quite sure what I'm getting myself into in the consulting world - it sounds kind of crazy! But in a good way. :) I actually stayed awake in Digital Logic, for once. When I got back to my office afterwards, I had an email from someone at Intel who had come across my resume and wanted me to interview for a job writing CAD tools. Just for the record: when I said I was going to rewrite Xilinx myself because it sucked so much, I didn't actually mean it! But it was a nice ego boost, anyway.

At that point it was getting kind of close to busy time at the gym, so I headed over there. It was nice and warm out and everybody was sitting outside on the quad. It felt just like being back in the Sunken Gardens...people throwing frisbees around, professors lecturing outside, nice warm sunshine...fire truck sirens in the background and billows of smoke overhead? Hang on a second. There was definitely a large amount of smoke coming from somewhere behind the bell tower. I was in no particular hurry, and I was curious, so I followed it. And just on the other side of the parking lot, there was definitely a building on fire:
I couldn't tell exactly what was going on - there's some sort of machinery on top of the building, like an air conditioning unit, and that's where the fire was. About five fire trucks were maneuvering around the parking lot, but didn't seem to be doing much else. I gawked for a while and then left.

The gym was fairly empty when I got there, so I did a half-hour on the elliptical and another half-hour on the bike. Oof! I hadn't worked out in over a week, so I definitely felt it. I went out to the bus stop, realized I had just missed my bus, and decided to pick up dinner on campus. I wandered around indecisively for a while, still in no particular hurry and stopping to watch things whenever I felt like it. Eventually I ended up at Quizno's and got dinner there. It still wasn't time for the next bus, and I was halfway home already, so I just walked home. I'm sure my legs will hate me tomorrow, but oh well. The weather was too gorgeous not to spend some time outside.

And that's what makes me happy today - weather nice enough that I was actually enjoying being outside. In February. I love the South. :)