23
Aug
2005
East Coast Awesomeness
I'm at Yogi's place right now here in Baltimore. It's been a fun but tiring couple of days. The conference ended with a great banquet that included no sketchiness or embarrassing researcher trying to air guitar their way to fame. In fact, they brought in a real band this time (not some band made up of researchers from the conference). I got a chance to talk to the band members before they began playing. One of the guys told me that he used to play on the Preservation Hall Band in New Orleans a few years ago! That meant instant cool for me. On one of their songs, the lead says, "we're gonna play some jazz now for our austin, texas friend we just met". It was outstanding. Even though the guy looked like he wasn't a musician, when he opened his mouth to sing... it was like butter.
So Sunday we headed back to Baltimore, and I actually got a chance to go to church at CCCB. Hung out there until lunch, went over to the library at Home Sweet Hopkins. I then went down to the airport to rent a car, and then drove up to Philly to meet Paul and Tim. We had a chance to eat Philly Cheesesteaks for dinner. For those who think that you've had a philly cheesesteak because you've been to Chili's or Texadelphia, you haven't truly lived.
Monday morning I left Paul's place before 7am and drove down to VA to visit Jimmy. We ate, he showed me the church where he pastors, and we bummed around a lot. Then we drove back up to Baltimore to have dinner with Yogi and Ajin at Bateman's.
The rest of the evening was spent um... building furniture??? Yogi knew some ladies in a nearby apartment that needed help building IKEA furniture and so he enthusiastically volunteered (read into that however you want hehe). So I tagged along with Yogi and Ajin thinking that I wouldn't be doing much. You don't need 3 Johns Hopkins engineers to build IKEA furniture. Unfortunately, we probably needed more. The guys worked on some furniture while the ladies worked on other furniture. I'll say that it was probably our pride that made us think that we could put some of the stuff together without fully reading the directions. In the end, we finished but the ladies were done with their stuff well before we were.
Today: bumming around during the day and then dinner with my friend Moses from CCCB.
Comments
So how many enginerds does it take to put together Ikea furniture? One would hope that the answer is zero, but I guess that's not the case. Or maybe it was, depending if the ladies didn't have an engineer in their group... =P
RSS feed for comments to this post