This has been a long week, but a good one. Picking up where I left off yesterday:

My fellow post-doc and I talked for awhile after getting news of our raises. He has been on this job about a year longer than I have. According to him, the lab puts an amount equal to 10% of our salary into our pension plan. I knew I had a pension plan, but I didn't know how much money got contributed to it. I'll admit that I'm impressed. Between the raises and the pension money, I'm making nearly $52K now -- much more than I have ever earned in my life! And, more importantly, that is considerably more money than I need... enabling me to help contribute more to important projects. Honestly, sometimes I still can't quite believe how much I am being paid to do work that I absolutely enjoy!

After work, The Moof and I went to visit some PolyChi people for dinner in Lombard. Dinner was good, the conversation was interesting, and the company was enjoyable. Eventually, our numbers dwindled when a couple of people went home... so I suggested playing a game. We played The Settlers of Catan, which I won by a very slight margin. Close game -- got my adrenalin going.

Went home afterwards and chatted with [livejournal.com profile] classrevolution and LabRat about their encounter with the sheriff's deputy. I still can't get over how messed up that was! There were some funny parts to the story, though. For instance, the deputy saw the Four Square game sketched on our driveway from the party last week and assumed that children lived in this house. Apparently, [livejournal.com profile] classrevolution rebuked the deputy, telling him that people can still have fun playing games when they get older. I got a kick out of that...

Today, I did not go into the lab. In a way, this is too bad, because I missed out on getting to sing Happy Birthday to CERN. CERN is 50 years old now, and I've never sang Happy Birthday to a physics lab before, so I would have enjoyed the opportunity. For those of you who have never heard of CERN, you should know that it was where the World Wide Web was born.

Instead of working at the lab today, I drove into Chicago to meet with a colleague at the university. On the way in, I dropped [livejournal.com profile] classrevolution and LabRat off at the Haymarket Square memorial. Then I had a very productive day at the university, learning something of the software that I will need to use to analyze the inclined laser shots that we took in Argentina last month. A productive day always puts me in a great mood, so I was feeling good when I left work to pick up my comrades.

Once reunited with my travelling friends, we headed to a Food Not Bombs party in the city. Essentially, it was a potluck party -- vegan food only -- with a short meeting about setting up a new FNB chapter. The party was fun, and I got to introduce LabRat and [livejournal.com profile] classrevolution to a goodly number of Chicago Anarchists.

Finally, we got tired -- very tired -- and came home. As I said, it has been a good week, but it has also been a very long week.
To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub.
This has been a long week, but a good one. Picking up where I left off yesterday:

My fellow post-doc and I talked for awhile after getting news of our raises. He has been on this job about a year longer than I have. According to him, the lab puts an amount equal to 10% of our salary into our pension plan. I knew I had a pension plan, but I didn't know how much money got contributed to it. I'll admit that I'm impressed. Between the raises and the pension money, I'm making nearly $52K now -- much more than I have ever earned in my life! And, more importantly, that is considerably more money than I need... enabling me to help contribute more to important projects. Honestly, sometimes I still can't quite believe how much I am being paid to do work that I absolutely enjoy!

After work, The Moof and I went to visit some PolyChi people for dinner in Lombard. Dinner was good, the conversation was interesting, and the company was enjoyable. Eventually, our numbers dwindled when a couple of people went home... so I suggested playing a game. We played The Settlers of Catan, which I won by a very slight margin. Close game -- got my adrenalin going.

Went home afterwards and chatted with [livejournal.com profile] classrevolution and LabRat about their encounter with the sheriff's deputy. I still can't get over how messed up that was! There were some funny parts to the story, though. For instance, the deputy saw the Four Square game sketched on our driveway from the party last week and assumed that children lived in this house. Apparently, [livejournal.com profile] classrevolution rebuked the deputy, telling him that people can still have fun playing games when they get older. I got a kick out of that...

Today, I did not go into the lab. In a way, this is too bad, because I missed out on getting to sing Happy Birthday to CERN. CERN is 50 years old now, and I've never sang Happy Birthday to a physics lab before, so I would have enjoyed the opportunity. For those of you who have never heard of CERN, you should know that it was where the World Wide Web was born.

Instead of working at the lab today, I drove into Chicago to meet with a colleague at the university. On the way in, I dropped [livejournal.com profile] classrevolution and LabRat off at the Haymarket Square memorial. Then I had a very productive day at the university, learning something of the software that I will need to use to analyze the inclined laser shots that we took in Argentina last month. A productive day always puts me in a great mood, so I was feeling good when I left work to pick up my comrades.

Once reunited with my travelling friends, we headed to a Food Not Bombs party in the city. Essentially, it was a potluck party -- vegan food only -- with a short meeting about setting up a new FNB chapter. The party was fun, and I got to introduce LabRat and [livejournal.com profile] classrevolution to a goodly number of Chicago Anarchists.

Finally, we got tired -- very tired -- and came home. As I said, it has been a good week, but it has also been a very long week.
To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub.
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