When Walking Downtown

My wife & I took off fairly early this morning to head into Vancouver for the day. The original plan was to take in the 'career fair' at Robson Square which turned out to be quite the joke of a time.

You'd think in a city of 2 million-plus people there'd be quite a number of exhibits set up? Nope. According to the brochure, there was just over 40 and if we found more than 20 after looking in several nooks and crannies I'd be amazed. One of the problems is that the "convention" area has been absorbed by one of the local universities and the "wide open space" is now mostly offices, meeting rooms, and sweet-F-all for a "convention."

Geez.

We did take in 2 lectures over the afternoon. One was on interviewing tips and the biggest tip I got was don't be as unorganized as the woman doing the presentation. She couldn't figure out that the overheads were upside down and everytime she put a new sheet on.... upside down again!! Even worse, you couldn't read the bottom half of the page because of the giant stand they'd put the projector on! The second lecture was about getting into gaming design and about the new program based on that at a local film school.

Like, 95% of my dream job, people.

I felt a little ignorant afterward as the guy speaking has been with EA Canada for years before moving to this school and he was talking about other local software companies. IMPRESSIVE. I had no idea some of them had offices in the area!

Must delve further into this.

So, apart from that, we pretty much just walked around the downtown area. Had a very crappy lunch on Robson Street (the most expensive real estate in North America, y'know --yep, costs more $$ than 5th Ave or Rodeo Drive!). My tomato tortellini soup was sans tortellini. So, basically it was spicy tomato soup. That, and I had the blandest California chicken wrap. Blech. Sadly, I sat in such a position that I could see my favorite Vancouver pizza place (Pezzo, if you're ever in the area) right across the street. *sigh*

I was so hungry that a stop at Ikea on the way home saw me eat a plate of Penne with meatballs and 2 hot dogs. Believe it. That came to $3 for dinner too.