Day 30 - How bizarre

Today was an even weirder day at work. I had nothing to do but somehow managed to create tasks for myself. I even made two more TEM samples, in the afternoon, and had an approximately 7-minute-long talk with my professor about my data. He again, as he seems wont to do, suggested another way for me to graph and break down the data, because at this point I have data pouring out of my ears. My EARS. Luckily that's an exaggeration or that would be very bizarre.

Lunch was spent with Sari, Tamara, Clay and Lior, and the highlight was watching the ants near our table heft huge (relative to their size) vegetables, which after a while we started providing because we were fascinated. Also, we gave one of the cats Tamara's salmon skin, and in so doing discovered the territorial boundaries for the cats at Charlie's Place. All in all, an educational hour for us with respect to wildlife.

I stayed at work rather late and decided not to go swimming, because Asaf wasn't going either. Instead I went back to Clore and retrieved my climbing shoes from the roof. A picture of them hanging, as well as some views of campus and Rehovot from said roof, can be found below. Then I fell asleep until dinner time, when I roped Stephen, Oren and Joel into a falafel run. We ran into Alissa and Rachel, a German student here for the year, at the falafel establishment and later Dan showed up and joined us, so we had a yummy meal and fun chat. Eventually we headed back.

The rest of the evening was spent chilling, mostly in Stephen's room (which is apparently the new hang out place), playing some guitar, blogging, and talking. Eventually there was interest in a rooftop party, but I was tired, so I went and found Dave (!) and said a final goodbye to him before his flight, had a chat with Ari (and intermittently, Oren, Jordan and Joel), then went to bed. Oh, and I talked to Mom and Dad on the phone, which was lovely. But they told me they were behind on the blog (Hi parental units! You guys better catch up).

My poor climbing shoes...

View of campus

View of Rehovot