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I am currently at Fermilab, land of pi-shaped telephone poles and buffalo herds roaming the prairie. I am not kidding. I have met so many awkward people it is amazing. I also fell really badly on my roller blades multiple times, explored radioactive materials areas and hallways full of supercomputers, heard a Nobel prize winning physicist talk about Columbia's cyclotron (and neutrinos, his Nobel prize topic, but whatever...I haven't broken into a building to see those), saw the Futureheads, got lost in multiple parts of Chicago, had my car break down twice (once in at the lab and once downtown, where I had to bribe parking lot attendants to jump the battery), heard Nick Hornby speak, and worked full-time at the Public Affairs Office -- which is what I'm really supposed to be doing here. I still don't have a wireless card for my computer (and believe me, I tried...but after 3 hours of driving through the prairie looking for Best Buy, anyone would give up), so I am currently Internet-less in the dorms, except for the public computer I am using now. Hopefully I will get those awkward people I met to actually talk to me soon, so I don't have to spend my weekends sleeping/doing things by myself. I bought a huge guide book to Chicago, and hopefully I can drag some particle physicists to cool places with me.
Aside from the pi-shaped telephone poles, the best discovery of the week was Batavia, IL's (my current home) TRADER JOES!!!!!!!!!!! I was so happy, especially after subsisting off of cereal and peanut butter sandwiches last week. I spent so much money there today, and the quesadilla I was able to make afterward was so worth it. The only thing I can't figure out is why Batavia has a Trader Joes and Manhattan doesn't. Send me recipes, because I have to learn to cook all the time and not just when I feel like it.
The weather here is really unbearable today, which is unfortunate because I can't figure out how to make my air conditioner come on. I think its supposed to be automatic, but it is always incredibly hot and stuffy in my room. I guess that just gives me more excuses to hang out other places with foreign scientists.
If anyone knows anything about Chicago or its surrounding suburbs/will be around here this summer, please let me know. We can play with the buffalo and see the particle accelerator.
Aside from the pi-shaped telephone poles, the best discovery of the week was Batavia, IL's (my current home) TRADER JOES!!!!!!!!!!! I was so happy, especially after subsisting off of cereal and peanut butter sandwiches last week. I spent so much money there today, and the quesadilla I was able to make afterward was so worth it. The only thing I can't figure out is why Batavia has a Trader Joes and Manhattan doesn't. Send me recipes, because I have to learn to cook all the time and not just when I feel like it.
The weather here is really unbearable today, which is unfortunate because I can't figure out how to make my air conditioner come on. I think its supposed to be automatic, but it is always incredibly hot and stuffy in my room. I guess that just gives me more excuses to hang out other places with foreign scientists.
If anyone knows anything about Chicago or its surrounding suburbs/will be around here this summer, please let me know. We can play with the buffalo and see the particle accelerator.