COGS LAN (except I'm not going to write about that)

So last Saturday was a fairly large (20-something people) LAN party held at the student union through the computer gaming society. I participated, and it was grand. I think that there will be a big PVK II following for the next one, as that game rules.
Here is what it looks like (about half the room):


But, I lost interest in this as a topic after I received a package in the mail. Luke, my flatmate, let me know that I had a parcel, and I was confused. I wasn't sure who even knew my address. So I opened it and here's what I found:


It's a U of A bear with HUG ME written on the front from the 2008 Japanese exchange students at the U of A. Today was a horrible day for homework, but this lightened up my spirit and continues to make me smile. I take its advice regularly:


So Megumi, Sachi, Mizuho, Yurika, Tetsuya, Yuki, Yoshiki, and Aki, Thank you for lovely gift.