School is great and everything but it gets tiresome when you log in more than 36 hours there over the course of a Saturday and Sunday. Today I arrived at 8:30am and I just got home (it is 2:46am on Monday). The day before was about the same.
Things in my group are good. We left our building tonight in high spirits after plotting out our presentation board, which is more than 6' long. Whenever you plot anything more than 48" long, you always risk having graphics go astray or print out blob-like. By the graces of all that is holy, the 72" board printed out complete and pristine. The colors weren't half bad, either. Our 30 slide powerpoint presentation is also in top form. We run through at 10am tomorrow, and then do the presentation at 2:00 in front of a selected panel of stakeholders and critics. Shall be interesting. I cannot wait until we are done so I can catch up on all the other crap I've ignored for days.
I had a nice catch up with some friends from Oregon on Friday night. We went to eat at Sam's Place, some seafood joint in the thick of the financial tourist trap district. Can't say I adored the neighborhood, but the fish wasn't half bad. This restaurant is one of SF's oldest, apparently. The service is alright, if a little slow but it was a Friday evening.
My take home message of the evening was that people who have jobs have it easy. They have time to dine and socialize, plan morning outings to the spa, and even exercise. People like me barley have time to get 3.5 hours of sleep a night. A condition which I am currently headed toward if I do not wrap this message up soon.
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