Geek-glee!

I finally hunkered down and installed MikTeX and TeXnicCenter on my XP machine at work yesterday, so I could start figuring out this LaTeX typesetting program. I expected it to be similar to HTML. As it turns out, it's more of a programming language than anything resembling a word processing application. I mean, it even has a compiler and everything -- I can't remember the last time I had to use a compiler. College, definitely. C++? Pascal? Hm, strangely fuzzy, that. Anyway. It's going to take a while to really get the hang of this, but it's already starting to make sense in small pieces.

And then! Imagine my reaction when I discovered, on the very next day, that the TeX User's Group is having their annual US conference at Notre Dame this summer. With a day of free workshops and everything! Glee!

Seriously, I literally giggled out loud with happiness and it took everything I had to not go to tell IT Guy the exciting news. I felt like such a geek.