Ottawa road trip: days 2 &3

Yesterday I spent the afternoon with friends whom I hadn't seen in a long time. First I had lunch with Lisa, whom I met while working for OTI in summer 2002. It was an unusually busy weekend for her so she was only able to squeeze me in between an Arabic class and a concert rehearsal. Nevertheless, it was good to see her again after over 2 years. She told me all about this exciting project she's been running with high-school volunteeers since early summer. They are creating Flash presentations that exploit memory strengthening techniques to let people remember facts about a given topic with very little effort. She also mentioned that her sister recently got a spot on the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, which is incredibly kewl news for a musician.

After Lisa left for her rehearsal I met up with Andy (Bernat), with whom I worked at KL Group way back in summer 2000, and his girlfriend. We spent a couple of hours chatting over hot beverages before they had to leave. Then I went out for dinner with Drew, Shannon, Ange, Lex and Sarah. We got to our favourite Vietnamese restaurant (Cam Kong) an hour before it was going to close for the night so we had to eat quickly. Somehow I managed to pull this off. Upon returning to Drew and Shannon's place we watched Mystic River before going to bed.

The next morning Ange and I hopped into her car, rescued Lex (from his girlfriend) and Sarah O'Leary (from her family), before heading back for Waterloo. During the return trip I read large swathes of Sarah's Psych 101 textbook.