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trocheeokay, another entry in my series of tedious posts catching up on what's going on. I'm definitely treating livejournal as a write-only medium right now -- I had internet access only briefly today, in the San Francisco airport, for which I paid, thinking that surely the San Jose and Chicago airports would have access on the same program. Sadly, no.
Here's the reason I'm in so many airports today. It's a bit tedious; I'll probably cut all these entries.
I'm going to visit some researchers in Palo Alto for a few weeks. I was originally scheduled to arrive in the Bay Area (to SFO) on Sunday afternoon and start work on Monday. In addition, I was supposed to fly today (Tuesday) from PA to MD to go to some summer-summary talks at Johns Hopkins (just for a day, my jet-setting self). But my thesis work (see the last few entries) kept going and going like the energizer bunny, and I hadn't heard anything from the PA researchers about where I was going or what I was doing or even where I should show up(!), so I started to panic a little, earlier this week.
After some discussion with Advisor, we decided to change my SFO leg so I came down this morning, giving me time to finish and submit my thesis (time that was apparently necessary, although it is probably a good rule-of-thumb that revisions expand to fill all available time). Thus, today I was up at 3:20a to catch a shuttle to the airport, flew at 610a from SEA to SFO, rented a car at the SFO airport, and drove to the San Jose. I haven't driven a car for months, so that was a strange experience, especially with a car I wasn't sure about. I had a scary moment on an exit ramp when the brakes didn't work as effectively as expected, and I heard a tire squeal at the same time (I'm not sure it was my little Dodge Neon, but it still scared me). From SJO I caught a plane to Chicago, where I'm writing this as I wait for a flight to Baltimore. After tomorrow's conference talks at Baltimore, I'll catch a return flight to Chicago and thence to San Jose again, where my rental car awaits; by then I hope to know where I'll be staying -- if not, I'll rent a room in a Motel 6 near the lab and grill the HR people there -- and report for work at the Palo Alto lab on Thursday morning.
Here's the reason I'm in so many airports today. It's a bit tedious; I'll probably cut all these entries.
I'm going to visit some researchers in Palo Alto for a few weeks. I was originally scheduled to arrive in the Bay Area (to SFO) on Sunday afternoon and start work on Monday. In addition, I was supposed to fly today (Tuesday) from PA to MD to go to some summer-summary talks at Johns Hopkins (just for a day, my jet-setting self). But my thesis work (see the last few entries) kept going and going like the energizer bunny, and I hadn't heard anything from the PA researchers about where I was going or what I was doing or even where I should show up(!), so I started to panic a little, earlier this week.
After some discussion with Advisor, we decided to change my SFO leg so I came down this morning, giving me time to finish and submit my thesis (time that was apparently necessary, although it is probably a good rule-of-thumb that revisions expand to fill all available time). Thus, today I was up at 3:20a to catch a shuttle to the airport, flew at 610a from SEA to SFO, rented a car at the SFO airport, and drove to the San Jose. I haven't driven a car for months, so that was a strange experience, especially with a car I wasn't sure about. I had a scary moment on an exit ramp when the brakes didn't work as effectively as expected, and I heard a tire squeal at the same time (I'm not sure it was my little Dodge Neon, but it still scared me). From SJO I caught a plane to Chicago, where I'm writing this as I wait for a flight to Baltimore. After tomorrow's conference talks at Baltimore, I'll catch a return flight to Chicago and thence to San Jose again, where my rental car awaits; by then I hope to know where I'll be staying -- if not, I'll rent a room in a Motel 6 near the lab and grill the HR people there -- and report for work at the Palo Alto lab on Thursday morning.
