The Duc Pond

This is so amazing. Weird coincidence, I tell ya. I still have Karen, a girl in one of the CS416 sections I TAed, on my buddy list and I had noticed her profile said she was living in Maple Shade. I kept forgetting to mention to her that I work really near there, but seeing her online today reminded me.

I never put 2 and 2 together. She had told me before graduating she was going to work for Lockheed. And her profile said she was in Maple Shade. I should have figured out that the Lockheed in question was the Lockheed we contract to for Aegis. But I didn’t think about it until I started talking to her! Turns out she’s working somewhat close to the Lockheed complex on Marter Ave. and we’re both doing Aegis stuff! Funky. Here’s an excerpt to show how weird this is:

Duc1701 (1:17:05 PM): This is pretty cool. We’re both on Navy work.
SilverDawn3 (1:17:48 PM): haa haa yeah
SilverDawn3 (1:17:48 PM): I work on software that testes the ships hardware
SilverDawn3 (1:17:48 PM): its called ORTS
Duc1701 (1:18:29 PM): Ha! My piece (ETF, part of the SPY radar) gets initiated by ORTS!
SilverDawn3 (1:18:37 PM): LMAO
SilverDawn3 (1:18:43 PM): haa haa haa
SilverDawn3 (1:18:50 PM): this is hilarious
SilverDawn3 (1:18:57 PM): I can’t believe it

So we’re having lunch Wednesday with some of her coworkers. I’ll try to drag Cat along. I forgot to ask her how her boyfriend Jimmy is doing (he was also in my class) but we can catch up on that at lunch. Oh, she also needs a roommate for her place and asked if I was looking. It’s a 2-story townhouse, 2 beds, 2 baths. Sounds pretty cool. Hopefully I can check it out soon.