Another newsflash/shoutout: congrats, Dad, on your first comment! Voila, you get a tag too!
Work today was actually strangely productive. I plotted things and am beginning to actually be able to make SigmaPlot do what I want, which is a plus. I plotted and did regressions and sent some of them to Professor Wagner, and was very busy all morning. Lunch was spent with everyone at San Martin, and was made particularly interesting when Jordan started a movement to grab the leftover ice creams from a cooler behind some barriers in the lunchroom to set aside that part for a summer program to eat in. Clay and I, being the big ice cream fans we are, followed suit, but we all discovered rather soon why these were left over: they were basically cola popsicles, and were inedible. Clay and I therefore resolved to make up for it tonight with some real ice cream.
The afternoon was spent contemplating my data further and checking out various hilarious links and e-mails with Noa as she waited for her sample to cure in the oven. She left when this was over, at about which time I remembered that it was Perlman cookie/snack time (4:30 on Thursdays). I went up to the 6th floor to grab Dan, and we chilled for a few minutes before walking down. The food was actually not so great, but we hung out and were soon joined by the other Dan (who also works on the 6th floor...and who no longer can really be "Dan with the hair" because he just got a haircut that makes him almost look like a normal person!). We chatted for a half hour, then returned to work.
For some reason I thought this would be a good time to try to plot my data in 3D (!). I'm sure this will be a great way to look at the data, once I figure it out, but for now there is something going seriously awry with the mesh plot and there are these odd peaks I can't seem to trace, so I struggled with this until around 6:15 before realizing I was meeting Clay in 15 minutes! I therefore headed out and changed into shorts before finding Clay in the lobby. Dan would meet us there, so we headed out.
Our destination: the four-flavor falafel place. Now, you may ask, what flavors of falafel could you possibly want or need, besides original? Well, I don't know how to explicitly answer this because I am not really sure what the four flavors are, except that I'm sure original is one of them, and that one other one was spicy, and another was sort of greenish in color. What I can say is that I got a mixture of all of them, as did Clay and Daniel once he arrived, and that all were scrumptious. After we were done eating we backtracked a bit to Benny's, Clay's favorite ice cream place (which he talks about all the time), for frozen treats. I was pleasantly surprised; I got cookies and cream and a milk/white/dark chocolate mixture and both were excellent.
After sitting for a bit we headed home so I could change for climbing. I headed to the main gate, where I met and sat with Tamar and Michal to wait for Nitzan. We went to the top-roping place, and Tamar and I belayed each other on some top-roping routes. After a bit Nitzan gave me a refresher on lead belaying and supervised me as another friend climbed. I also tried the yellow lead route again, and managed to not only reach but hold on to the last hold for about three seconds. There was not chance I could clip in, though, so I came down. I then belayed Nitzan on lead for what he referred to as a "stupidly hard" route, which was a success (in that he is still alive), and we all rested and ate some pretzels before heading over to the bouldering area.
Nitzan and I constructed a pretty fun problem, and Tamar somehow came across a tee shirt which she gave to me which has both Hebrew and climbing on it! Soon after we all decided we were tired, and so headed out, but the trip home was a much happier one than Tuesday. I don't know that I will be so anxious to return to Performance Rock, despite my loyalty to bouldering. But we'll see.
When I returned to Clore, I found Ari, Dan, Zvonimir, Rachel, and Asaf in the lobby getting ready to watch a few episodes of How I Met Your Mother. I put in a load of laundry and went across the street with Ari to buy some snacks, and then we watched the pilot and second episode, which were very amusing! I definitely want to see some more. By this time it was very late, so I switched my clothing to the dryer, chatted with Asaf, retrieved and folded it, and went to bed.
Since you've been photo-starved, here are a few random shots from the past week:
Work today was actually strangely productive. I plotted things and am beginning to actually be able to make SigmaPlot do what I want, which is a plus. I plotted and did regressions and sent some of them to Professor Wagner, and was very busy all morning. Lunch was spent with everyone at San Martin, and was made particularly interesting when Jordan started a movement to grab the leftover ice creams from a cooler behind some barriers in the lunchroom to set aside that part for a summer program to eat in. Clay and I, being the big ice cream fans we are, followed suit, but we all discovered rather soon why these were left over: they were basically cola popsicles, and were inedible. Clay and I therefore resolved to make up for it tonight with some real ice cream.
The afternoon was spent contemplating my data further and checking out various hilarious links and e-mails with Noa as she waited for her sample to cure in the oven. She left when this was over, at about which time I remembered that it was Perlman cookie/snack time (4:30 on Thursdays). I went up to the 6th floor to grab Dan, and we chilled for a few minutes before walking down. The food was actually not so great, but we hung out and were soon joined by the other Dan (who also works on the 6th floor...and who no longer can really be "Dan with the hair" because he just got a haircut that makes him almost look like a normal person!). We chatted for a half hour, then returned to work.
For some reason I thought this would be a good time to try to plot my data in 3D (!). I'm sure this will be a great way to look at the data, once I figure it out, but for now there is something going seriously awry with the mesh plot and there are these odd peaks I can't seem to trace, so I struggled with this until around 6:15 before realizing I was meeting Clay in 15 minutes! I therefore headed out and changed into shorts before finding Clay in the lobby. Dan would meet us there, so we headed out.
Our destination: the four-flavor falafel place. Now, you may ask, what flavors of falafel could you possibly want or need, besides original? Well, I don't know how to explicitly answer this because I am not really sure what the four flavors are, except that I'm sure original is one of them, and that one other one was spicy, and another was sort of greenish in color. What I can say is that I got a mixture of all of them, as did Clay and Daniel once he arrived, and that all were scrumptious. After we were done eating we backtracked a bit to Benny's, Clay's favorite ice cream place (which he talks about all the time), for frozen treats. I was pleasantly surprised; I got cookies and cream and a milk/white/dark chocolate mixture and both were excellent.
After sitting for a bit we headed home so I could change for climbing. I headed to the main gate, where I met and sat with Tamar and Michal to wait for Nitzan. We went to the top-roping place, and Tamar and I belayed each other on some top-roping routes. After a bit Nitzan gave me a refresher on lead belaying and supervised me as another friend climbed. I also tried the yellow lead route again, and managed to not only reach but hold on to the last hold for about three seconds. There was not chance I could clip in, though, so I came down. I then belayed Nitzan on lead for what he referred to as a "stupidly hard" route, which was a success (in that he is still alive), and we all rested and ate some pretzels before heading over to the bouldering area.
Nitzan and I constructed a pretty fun problem, and Tamar somehow came across a tee shirt which she gave to me which has both Hebrew and climbing on it! Soon after we all decided we were tired, and so headed out, but the trip home was a much happier one than Tuesday. I don't know that I will be so anxious to return to Performance Rock, despite my loyalty to bouldering. But we'll see.
When I returned to Clore, I found Ari, Dan, Zvonimir, Rachel, and Asaf in the lobby getting ready to watch a few episodes of How I Met Your Mother. I put in a load of laundry and went across the street with Ari to buy some snacks, and then we watched the pilot and second episode, which were very amusing! I definitely want to see some more. By this time it was very late, so I switched my clothing to the dryer, chatted with Asaf, retrieved and folded it, and went to bed.
Since you've been photo-starved, here are a few random shots from the past week:
Yovav and his beautifully-decorated cast (/etc)
Views from the foot of the accelerator:
3 comments:
my love! how can we facilitate talking? i miss you terribly, and it is absolutely time for us to chat. if we can't talk talk, then we shall email. your adventures sound so cool and adventurous! it really sounds like you are making the most out of every day. i love you, beccaboo. loffe, shell
xxxx
So I see the caption "View from the foot of the accelerator," and I think it's for the picture of the foot. And I wondered if that particular foot is named "The Accelerator." Then I realized it was not and that I am a doof.
I have never named my feet. The Accelerator would be a good name for one of them.
I comment every day and I've never gotten a tag....haha
As I have said before, YAY ICE CREAM!!
<3
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