Moving and Convocation
So, somehow in the blur of the past couple weeks I managed to leave out a few minor details...

I moved into my new place at the beginning of this month. It’s basically the attic of a 3-story house in the East Campus Village. It’s in pretty good shape, and they cleaned well (with one minor exception that ended with the Edmonton Police taking photographs and blood samples... turns out it was a total false alarm :) ) Moved a bunch of stuff in, bought a bunch of new stuff (much singing of Jonathan Coulton's Ikea was involved). The place is starting to come together, but the living room is still completely unfurnished and full of things I haven’t unpacked yet. But the cable guy was by yesterday! Now that I have internet there, it’s starting to feel like home :)

Monday was my convocation as a Bachelor of Science with a Computing Science specialization at the University of Alberta. I went in figuring it’d be a dry 2 hour thing to sit through, but was actually alot more engrossing than I thought. Some excellent speakers, just the right amount of pomp and ceremony without feeling like it took itself too seriously. I really wish I could have invited more people to this one, but with over 400 people graduants in that ceremony alone (and over 6,000 for the university as whole this year), the Jubilee Auditorium could only fit so many people. If you weren’t able to attend, you can view the ceremony online. (There’s a dvd available to order for $37 if anybody really wants one that badly). Mine was the Monday June 9th, 3pm-5pm ceremony. (Just a note if you’re having trouble viewing it: My first shot seemed to work alot better with Internet Explorer, but that might just be firefox’s popup blocker getting in the way.).

Oh, and I did get my grad photos in! If anybody wants some, let me know. I haven’t figured out the pricing exactly yet, but they came out really nice.

Okay, that’s enough livejournalling for today, I should really be working anyways...