Back in Champaign

Am back in Champaign. Seattle trip was hectic. Every day I would go to sleep after 12:30 and wake up before 6:30. Sit through 8 hrs of meetings on Wednesday and Thursday. On Tuesday just walked around for a really long time. So overall it was pretty stressful.

But it was also a lot of fun. I got to see a Norwegian Independence Day parade in Ballard. It was very interesting with marching bands, jokers, and dressed up people and a motorcycle show by Seattles finest. Then we had a really nice Grilled Salmon dinner at Sandy and Todd's (our hosts) place. Well then I had to go to Yogesh's place for another dinner. Enjoyed it too, had a long chat with Yogesh.

Final night was spent with a dinner at Vikas's place and then dessert at Dillitante's dessert place in the Capital Hill area. Ram came over and then we went out and reminisced a lot. Staying at the campus, I had never realized how much time had passed. But meeting all of these old friends made me realize how old I was.

But coming back to the campus made me young again. So I am a happy young senior graduate student. There are so many contradictions there that I can not help smiling.
Signing off with a simle :).