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Wow, this has been a busy day! It's after 8pm, I've been up for over twelve hours, and this is the first bit of free time that I've had. I don't normally give this sort of play-by-play, but here is what today has been like:
8am: Wake up. Thanks very much to the radio-controlled travel alarm given to me by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
langs_place.
8am - 9am: Shave, shower, and walk to conference hall.
9am - 10:30am: Collaboration meeting talks.
10:30am - 11am: "Break." At a meeting, this isn't time to relax, per se. It is time to be social and have informal discussions while drinking the morning caffeine (I brought some Awake for that purpose, since I don't like coffee).
11am - 1pm: Collaboration meeting talks.
1pm - 2:30pm: Lunchtime. Which is a lot like "break."
2:30pm - 4:30pm: Collaboration meeting talks.
4:30pm - 5pm: More break. These informal discussions are considered, with good reason, to be an important part of doing collaborative physics projects.
5pm - 7:45pm: Collaboration meeting talks.
7:45pm - 8:30pm: Procure dinner at convenience store, get stuff from hotel room.
8:30pm - 9pm: First real break of the day. That's where I am now, checking email and LJ and the web.
9pm - 2am???: Data taking shift with the fluorescence detector (FD). Each month, the FD is run during clear moonless nights (about two weeks per month). Four people need to run the FD remotely from the central building here in Malargue. The shifts alternate, with two people on one night and off the next. Tonight I get trained for these shifts, and work until the moon rises around 2am or so.
And, of course, tomorrow morning I wake at 8am and start a similar process again.
It is busy, but actually I'm having a great time. I am understanding much more of the talks than I did last time, in November. I'm seeing people I met before, and volunteering for some hardware calibration work later in the month. Fun stuff. After all, I do this work because I love it, and I really am having a great time today.
Okay, time to run. I go on shift in ten minutes...
[Addendum -- 3/16/2003 3:30AM: So much for going to sleep at 2am. I'm on shift with the FD until just after dawn. At 6:30am, we shut the FD down, so I'll be done by 7am. I can stay awake for the morning talks, which start at 9am, or I can sleep six hours and wake up at 2pm, just in time for the afternoon talks. I'd like to stay awake, but tomorrow I'm busy until about midnight, so I probably should grab the sleep.]
8am: Wake up. Thanks very much to the radio-controlled travel alarm given to me by
langs_place.8am - 9am: Shave, shower, and walk to conference hall.
9am - 10:30am: Collaboration meeting talks.
10:30am - 11am: "Break." At a meeting, this isn't time to relax, per se. It is time to be social and have informal discussions while drinking the morning caffeine (I brought some Awake for that purpose, since I don't like coffee).
11am - 1pm: Collaboration meeting talks.
1pm - 2:30pm: Lunchtime. Which is a lot like "break."
2:30pm - 4:30pm: Collaboration meeting talks.
4:30pm - 5pm: More break. These informal discussions are considered, with good reason, to be an important part of doing collaborative physics projects.
5pm - 7:45pm: Collaboration meeting talks.
7:45pm - 8:30pm: Procure dinner at convenience store, get stuff from hotel room.
8:30pm - 9pm: First real break of the day. That's where I am now, checking email and LJ and the web.
9pm - 2am???: Data taking shift with the fluorescence detector (FD). Each month, the FD is run during clear moonless nights (about two weeks per month). Four people need to run the FD remotely from the central building here in Malargue. The shifts alternate, with two people on one night and off the next. Tonight I get trained for these shifts, and work until the moon rises around 2am or so.
And, of course, tomorrow morning I wake at 8am and start a similar process again.
It is busy, but actually I'm having a great time. I am understanding much more of the talks than I did last time, in November. I'm seeing people I met before, and volunteering for some hardware calibration work later in the month. Fun stuff. After all, I do this work because I love it, and I really am having a great time today.
Okay, time to run. I go on shift in ten minutes...
[Addendum -- 3/16/2003 3:30AM: So much for going to sleep at 2am. I'm on shift with the FD until just after dawn. At 6:30am, we shut the FD down, so I'll be done by 7am. I can stay awake for the morning talks, which start at 9am, or I can sleep six hours and wake up at 2pm, just in time for the afternoon talks. I'd like to stay awake, but tomorrow I'm busy until about midnight, so I probably should grab the sleep.]
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