berkeley: why live anywhere else??

I walked in the front door of Oscar Wilde House yesterday afternoon and was spontaneously greeted by an army of old friends, some of whom I know well and others who I have never met before. The house is bustling with people, familiar faces from the last year (many like me who don't actually live there anymore!) and a fun crop of newbies. This afternoon I ran into Nadia and Ping on Hearst Avenue and had a nice chat with Prof. Hilfinger in the halls of Soda (on central european cities and the programming contest, of course; and "Hey, are you taking 191 this semester?" "Well, uh, secretly I graduated.") I collected my five-month-old timecard from Vazirani's office and walked it down to the payroll office, so I'll actually get my long-awaited EECS dept paycheck in a few weeks. Last night as soon as Kenny1 discovered me in his room he called Kenny2 and Kenny2 called Michelle and then we all went down to Kingpin and to Fred's and came back to Wilde with lots of yummygoodness which we enjoyed with a came of Apples to Apples, which I was quite amused to discover had been augmented with a "Tobin Fricke" card! Now I have to get to work with the studying... but it's great to be back!

btw welcome pixieza to livejournal and to berkeley.. imagine this, four 2003 cern summer students all living in Berkeley co-ops!