Yak and Stuff
12:44 am - 05 March, 2010
Today was a pretty hectic day. I got up pretty early, by my standards. Last night, I'd been finishing off cleaning the old place. I then lugged about six very heavy bags home. But that doesn't have so much to do with today, except that explains why I have been fairly tired.
Anyway, I had arranged to drop off my key with the agents, because... well, I don't really know why, but I guess it means I don't have to get rid of it some other time. This morning. So I got up, inadvertently made a mess of the bathroom (by leaving the window open) and took the tube from Putney Bridge to Victoria (some events omitted). There, I renewed my 16-25 railcard (since I'm going to be 26 soon, renewing it now means I have another year of it!), dropped off the key, and bought some breakfast from Sainsbury's, which I ate as I walked to college. Funny to think that may be the last time I'll ever walk that route. Perhaps.
Today, we were hosting a Yak session at Imperial. I don't really know where the name Yak comes from, but it basically started out as weekly meetings of a group in Queen Mary in Peter O'Hearn's office. Gradually, the group grew and spread and now includes people from Imperial and Cambridge (as well as some others, I suspect). The last session was in Cambridge, so it was our turn.
The format is informal: people are asked to volunteer short (circa half hour) talks on stuff they've been working on recently. You get a lovely view of what's going on in the rest of the community and, if you're speaking, you get useful feedback on your own work. It's quite astounding how clever these guys are. I was one of those talking. I won't go into details here.
I skived off choir this evening, partly because some of the time I was in the pub, with Yak folks. Partly because I was just flipping tired. Why am I not in bed now?
I am currently enjoying the benefits of mobile broadband from O2. I even managed to connect on the bus!
