Synchronicity
Life happens when you open yourself to unexpected things.
Today I talked to James, Greenpeace volunteer in front of Graduate House. I mentioned Greenpeace's initiatives to publicize the staggering volumes of E-waste each year. James told me about http://www.rebootcanada.ca , a non-profit foundation that provides hardware, training and support to charities and people with needs.
I like what they're doing. Pity they're Microsoft-sponsored, though; I don't suppose they'll let me get away with volunteering to teach open source software...
Today I also chatted with Mike Chi. See, I was reading the paper in the 5th floor common area when he asked me if he could read the sections I finished. I couldn't help but overhear and get drawn into a conversation he had with someone who was visiting Grad House. After the conversation, we swapped names and courses. I told him I'm taking my master's in HCI, and he was, like, "No way." Turned out that he's also from HCI, but part of a different lab. We chatted about memory aids and PIM, del.icious and flickr, lots of other cool things...
Anyway, he told me he's taking this awesome course on computer-supportive collaborative work, which sounds exactly like what I should be getting into. It conflicts with the MIE class I'm taking, though. Tough decisions! Really tough decisions! I want to take it up. I need to make sure I'm not past the deadline yet, and I need to run it by Mark tomorrow morning to see what he thinks.
I like this. Meeting totally random strangers is like opening a treasure box...
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