The devil is in the details

Recrap

UPDATED

Things have been going very, very well here at The devil is in the details, but I was so busy this weekend that I didn't have much time to tell you about it. Let's recap....

The machine that accidentally got left on overnight: Was broken and unusable all of Friday. Iceland was unable to run his samples, in fact. Ooops. The regular operator was fixing it first thing this morning when I went in to apologize to her. There was no yelling, so overall it was fine. :)

Friday: Most of the day was just a normal day in the lab. My computer started acting really badly (it has been fishy for a while) Went to a delicious dinner with Evan and JP and then did some final work on the Denmark presentation.

Saturday: Had to go into the lab to meet with the boss, hear Evan practice a talk and do a couple little things. The plan was to do laundry, iron, and pack afterwards since I had a lot of stuff to do on Sunday. Somehow it turned into 6 hours at the lab, and I made it home in time to do laundry and work on getting things ready to go until 4am. During the whole staying up till 4am part, I also ended up having to re-format my hard drive thanks to more mega computer problems. (I didn't lose anything other than time, the computer worked well enough for me to backup before I wiped it. I just didn't want to have it become un-functional while I was gone.) I was not at all close to being ready to go when I went to sleep Saturday night, and then the stressing started.

Sunday: Got up bright and early at 8 to work on packing and finishing with the computer and other getting ready sort of stuff. Did some research for my fantasy football draft as well. I've never done a live draft before so I didn't know what amount of preparation was necessary. I had this mistaken idea that we would draft by each going to the computer in turn and clicking on a player that we wanted. In the end my preparation involved writing down a ranked list of the best players at each position on a piece of paper. My whole preparation involved one piece of paper. Then it was time to go to a lunch at JP's at 2. I went and got a bottle of wine (because they wouldn't sell it to me at 11:23 when I went out earlier) and off I went. We had a great time eating some delicious food that JP cooked and great conversation as well, though I ended up a little drunk from all the wine. Went home around 5 to wait for my new roommate and landlord to show up to sign our lease. They didn't show up till close to 6:30 so I got to spend some more time getting things ready while I waited. The meeting lasted till 7 and then I got into a car and went to the fantasy football draft. We drove around lost for half an hour before we found the place, so I ended up being a round and a half late. Everyone else had magazines and pages of printouts and I had my one sorry little piece of paper. I think that I did pretty well (especially since I was so unprepared) although I am in bad shape at running back. There were shouts of "whoa...good pick at this point in the draft" for a couple of my picks, so I'm thinking that it wasn't terrible. At least now I have no expectations to live up to. Since the draft was at an apartment far away in the middle of nowhere, I decided to take a cab home. I had to chase after a cab that a very drunk couple were leaving because I was in such a random area far from a subway route and had no idea how to get home (the girl thought I was crazy at first and seemed a little scared until she finally figured out I was chasing the cab and not her. She then realized the brilliance of my plan and chased the cab with me.) I ironed and finally finished packing before going to sleep.

Today: Made it to work for Evan's lab meeting (which was also eventful....) Leaving for the airport at 3:45 (IN 20 MINUTES)!!!!!!

Oh....if you've sent me postcard info....thanks, I've got it. If you want one and haven't sent me info...go for it.

posted by Immunegirl @ 3:20 PM