I have gainful employment! Somewhat ( Read more... )

We have a heat wave moving in, constant storms (which blew all our stuff off the dock a day ago) haven't made a dent in the heat already present, and our A/C for the entire upstairs just broke. Going downstairs is like descending into a dark and cool cave in comparison to the humid hotbox is that is the living space of the house ( Read more... )

My god, I'm sore. I think I need to start doing stretches before working eight-hour-shifts on the weekends and senior citizen discount days. I'm having trouble moving my hands and everything aches, and this wasn't even as horrendously busy as it was on Monday ( Read more... )

Yes, I made it out of Chicago. I've just sort of been in flop mode for the last few days, between jet lag and my work at the Big Blue Grocery. The job isn't horrible, but it does involve a lot of standing and doing the same thing for hours on end and it tends to wear one down. I got a lot of hours this week so I haven't had a lot of time to sit ( Read more... )

My abstract and Powerpoint presentation have been approved by my mentors and my father, and submitted to DOE and the program heads ( Read more... )

The power went out this Friday, which was awkward and yet confusing as an electrical outage could mean anything from a terrorism attempt to a squirrel attempting to be Pikachu. Turned out to be a "failure of an electrical feeder", whatever that means. Either way, they let us go in and get our keys and then sent us all home. It would have been fun ( Read more... )

My mentor is a good lady, bless her heart, but she doesn't know the first thing about computers ( Read more... )

Week Two of being a lab rat, and it's actually pretty decent. Most of what I do is run tests, which involves fiddling with electrodes for a bit and then waiting for them to Do Stuff. It would be excrutiatingly dull if the computer in here didn't have an internet connection. With intertubes contact, however, life is far more bearable ( Read more... )

My first day interning at ORNL and I am BORED. Got most of my internet-reading training done and obtained my badge and computer login, but other than that I don't actually have anything to do today. Can't do my site training on account of my mentor won't be back until tomorrow and his partner didn't even know I was coming until this morning on ( Read more... )

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