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The New Orleans update took a little longer to make than I had thought, partly due to the fact that I've been so busy doing stuff on campus the last few days, including two days where I spent over 12 straight hours on campus. At least it was doing neat and random stuff instead of homework. Sometimes I really wish I still lived in the dorms, since I could go back home for those 30-45 minute breaks. A brief recap:
Tuesday: ACM Meeting where a Microsoft guy did a pretty fair comparison on Windows versus Linux. It was really interesting.
Wednesday: Left the apartment around 10:30, then class, class, watched the student government presidential candidate debates while eating Taco Bell and found out I really like the Progress Party and that the Gator Party is so Greek it hurts. I'm also probably the only non-Greek or non-SG person who cares about student government elections, but they do dole out 11 million dollars a year, and I use their services all the time, so it affects me quite a bit. Then more class, then went to a guest math lecture talk about the history of the WZ Theory. The speaker was the Z part of WZ, and I swear that guy has to be an insane genius. I was told he'd be entertaining which is why I went, and it didn't disappoint, even if a fair chunk of the math went right over my head. Then I worked on more code for my software engineering class, then went to a senior event the Alumni association was throwing graduating seniors and got some free dinner. Then I went to hear a speaker about the Iraq war who did the press conferences for the last 2 years over there. So very pro-war, but he knew his stuff. Then I snagged some free pizza from another student group, checked out the Swing club, and then saw a movie at the student union, and finally got home around 1 AM.
Thursday: Went to see Reel Big Fish in a really awesome concert for free at the O'Dome.
But now, after long last, the New Orleans pictures. I took a total of about 280, but after getting rid of all the bad one's and duplicates (since I'll often take pictures of an object twice to make sure at least one of them comes out) it still only narrowed it down to about 200. But then when wittling down to the "interesting" one's, there's only about 40. I don't know what I'd do without my digital camera. Other than waste tons of money on film processing.
Here's the tl;dr (Too long, didn't read) version of my trip. Me and my friend Cathy left on Sunday and checked into our awesomely cheap but yet good hotel with no fuss, which was also right on the route of a main St. Charles trolley line. Monday was spent touring the French Quarter and walking a whole bunch, and then seeing a very awesome jazz band that evening. Tuesday we took a tour of the cemeteries and then checked out the New Orleans Museum of Art, and the adjacent scupture garden. Getting back to the Quarter was a bit of an adventure since the Canal street trolley's broke down due to electrical failure, but after an almost 3 hour ordeal, we were able to catch a bus back to the general vicinity of the Quarter. Wednesday we took a free tour put on by the National Park service (yay taxdollars) and went shopping and tried to see everything in the quarter we didn't get a chance to on Monday. Then we hit Bourbon street more that evening, and listened to the live music while going down the street. Thursday was our last day, and was spent wandering aroud the Garden District before heading back on the 8 hour drive to Gainesville. Best Spring Break I'd ever been on, and I'd love to go back again. It was also my first "real" (ie booking hotel) vacation I'd done on just my own planning.
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