Everything is so pretty in San Francisco

Okay, so I've finally decided to recount my journey to San Francisco. Let me see if I can actually do justice to the incredible experience it was (despite catching the flu from a certain friend whom I won't mention *COUGH*ben*COUGH*).

Sunday: We fly into San Francisco. Well, we try to anyways. Our flight is supposed to leave at 10:30 in the morning, but its rainy/snowy/icy stormy in Chicago, so when I get to the airport the flight is canceled. Even worse was the journey to the airport which I won't go into detail about (call cab, cab doesn't show up, drag bags down the street to catch a cab to the blue line, blue line doesn't show up for half an hour). But, still, luck was on our side and we (my professor Tom, external relation coordinator Tracy, and friend Ben) were able to squeeze onto the next flight at lile 12:30, so we had 3 hours to sit around. Which is where we made our first game industry friend. His name was Thom Yun. He writes for an well known game industry publication called Gamasutra and had good advice for us about networking at GDC, which we would later find out we desperately needed. Fast forward through the flight and settling into the hotel to dinner. We meet with the school crew (the professors and such), and decide to just wander until we think a place looks good. We end up happening upon a jazz seafood and steak place. The food was amazing, but even better was the gruff old black man playing jazz piano and singing in the corner of the restaurant. It was amazing. After that we were all tired and pretty much went back to our hotel rooms to prepare to hit GDC the next day.

Seeing that this was pretty long describing one day, I'm going to do this in several entries. That was one of the calmer days of the trip, which is absurd considering it was the traveling day. Anyways, until tomorrow/I feel like making the next entry, see ya!