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At ten o'clock... eleven o'clock... twelve o'clock... sixteen o'clock... twenty-two o'clock... and twenty-four o'clock!
No, that is not my answer to Macbeth's witches; it is actually my meeting schedule for today. That's right -- first meeting began at ten o'clock in the morning and the last one starts at midnight. That one goes until about six o'clock tomorrow morning... though I promise you, dear readers, that I shall not be awake when it ends!
I did say that T2K was entering a very exciting phase right now, as the neutrino beam begins and we take our first data. Tis quite true... but it also begets many many meetings! These days, I tend to describe our experiment by paraphrasing the old quote about the Spanish Empire[*]: "T2K is the experiment in which the meeting never ends." I suspect that, at least during weekdays, this sentiment may not be an exaggerations -- somewhere in the world, I think that there is always a T2K meeting going on!
Nonetheless, today may be a personal record for me. I am only squeezing this entry in between my third and fourth meeting of the day. And I was late to the third one because I desperately needed some lunch!
There is quite a bit more that I would wish to write -- especially as Tuesday and Wednesday were quite busy and interesting days. However, the next meeting begins in less than ten minutes, so it will have to wait. Instead, gentle readers, I leave you with a photograph of my UK kitties.[**] Just because.
[*] That being the 16th century comment by Fray Francisco de Ugalde to the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, about the Spain having an empire on which the Sun never sets.
[**] Actually, the silver tabby (Giles) is British... but the black kitty (The Boy) is an American ex-pat, just like my beloved![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cheshcat and myself. Generally speaking, though, when I say "my US kitties", I mean The Boy's sisters, Nona and Chirp, who are still living in Chicagoland at the Event Horizon.
No, that is not my answer to Macbeth's witches; it is actually my meeting schedule for today. That's right -- first meeting began at ten o'clock in the morning and the last one starts at midnight. That one goes until about six o'clock tomorrow morning... though I promise you, dear readers, that I shall not be awake when it ends!
I did say that T2K was entering a very exciting phase right now, as the neutrino beam begins and we take our first data. Tis quite true... but it also begets many many meetings! These days, I tend to describe our experiment by paraphrasing the old quote about the Spanish Empire[*]: "T2K is the experiment in which the meeting never ends." I suspect that, at least during weekdays, this sentiment may not be an exaggerations -- somewhere in the world, I think that there is always a T2K meeting going on!
Nonetheless, today may be a personal record for me. I am only squeezing this entry in between my third and fourth meeting of the day. And I was late to the third one because I desperately needed some lunch!
There is quite a bit more that I would wish to write -- especially as Tuesday and Wednesday were quite busy and interesting days. However, the next meeting begins in less than ten minutes, so it will have to wait. Instead, gentle readers, I leave you with a photograph of my UK kitties.[**] Just because.
[*] That being the 16th century comment by Fray Francisco de Ugalde to the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, about the Spain having an empire on which the Sun never sets.
[**] Actually, the silver tabby (Giles) is British... but the black kitty (The Boy) is an American ex-pat, just like my beloved
cheshcat and myself. Generally speaking, though, when I say "my US kitties", I mean The Boy's sisters, Nona and Chirp, who are still living in Chicagoland at the Event Horizon.