It was almost 10 am when I finished hacking this morning. Got some coffee, then drove to university.
Sounds like a normal student's day, but not for me - for me it was more like the first day at university after no longer being a student or something like that. Now being a full time hacker, I just went there to say goodbye to everyone. When I arrived there, I realized that I could really feel happy because of this - university is far from what it used to be when I started studying back in '96.
First of all, it's almost impossible to find any parking space - if you do find something which looks like one, well, you quickly realize that a lot of today's students urgently need to go back to driver's school - and learn how to park a car without consuming two or more parking spaces. Thought of having a second breakfast in the cafeteria, but no ... - it takes like forever to get something to eat or drink and then it's so overcrowded, dirty and people are smoking everywhere.
Walked around a bit and then decided to take the more expensive food in the cafeteria 'cause I just didn't feel like waiting in a queue for half an hour or so. Well, it was really expensive compared to Burger King or the local pizza service - payed almost EUR 8 with the salad, coffe and a dessert and it didn't taste very good.
Realized that it's a real nightmare to find a free table - most tables are already occupied and the ones which are not are full with other people's garbage. To make it worse, people are smoking all around you and you don't really feel compfortable. So, before I could eat, I found myself cleaning the table from other people's garbage. A task which isn't easy at all: either you bring the garbage to the dustbin like every good citizen does, but then you quickly realize that the table is already taken by someone else when you come back - or just throw everything onto the floor.
Finally finished eating - well, about half of it, it didn't taste good enough that I wanted to eat more than neccessary. Then, I just left - leaving the dishes and everything on the table .... "excuse me, sir! You must bring this ..." a staff member complained. My response was something like "f... you, I already cleaned two tables!"
Met a friend outside who was about to go to his class. We talked a bit, then he went inside and I went to my car. A few minutes later, he called me telling me that this class is so overcrowded that he couldn't even fit through the door! Hey, something should tell the fire department that there are four times more people in this room than allowed ...
Finally sat in my car, turned on the engines, but no .... of course, someone was too stupid to drive and had an accident at the exit of the parking lot, so I needed to wait about an hour until police and the tow-away vehicle where there. Found it very amusing to see other people sitting in their cars honking for a few minutes, then went to a pub nearby, got some hot tee and read the newspaper.
About an hour later, the jam was gone and I could finally drive home ....
Back home, I felt really happy that I'm not a student anymore and opened a Bofferding (a very good beer from Luxemburg), time to relax and enjoy my evening :-)