Back from LI
So I finished up at BNL on Friday. I spent the weekend wishing I was still there in my ACed room instead of at home. Oh well. The result of my eleven weeks out there was an 18 page paper. If anyone would like to read it send me an email. If anyone would like me to translate it into non-technical English, mention that in the email :-)
This week, instead of hanging around doing nothing, I'm hanging out... eh hem, I mean working... at Miller Theatre. There's a rental that involves a bunch of primary school teachers doing writing workshop things. It's painfully boring, fortunately it's giving me lots of time to do a complete 6-book Harry Potter reread. Also, today I made several interesting observations about elementary school teachers:
1) They're either morning people, non-New Yorkers, or completely insane. Several of them replyed to my request that they finish their food/coffee in the lobby by smiling and saying "thanks." Yeah, and this was before 8am. I spent the morning scratching my head over that one.
2) They clean up after themselves. One of the few times that there has been a shortage of seats at Miller when I've been working and the only time (regardless of the crowd size) that I've picked up fewer than 4 pieces of garbage when walking the entire balcony and half of the downstairs.
3) They were far worse than the average audience about closing the doors softly when they got up to go out. I would have really liked them, except for the 3 dozen people who went out to the bathrooms in the middle of the morning session without closing the door softly as they left. This left me to grab the door knob from my seat and hold the door myself. Since I was sitting in front and a little to the side of the door this had the unpleasant effect of ripping my shoulder out of its socket (not really... but it did hurt). I suspect there was a correlation between the large number of people getting up and the large number of people who had happily chugged their caffeine without giving me a hard time earlier. Oh well.
This week, instead of hanging around doing nothing, I'm hanging out... eh hem, I mean working... at Miller Theatre. There's a rental that involves a bunch of primary school teachers doing writing workshop things. It's painfully boring, fortunately it's giving me lots of time to do a complete 6-book Harry Potter reread. Also, today I made several interesting observations about elementary school teachers:
1) They're either morning people, non-New Yorkers, or completely insane. Several of them replyed to my request that they finish their food/coffee in the lobby by smiling and saying "thanks." Yeah, and this was before 8am. I spent the morning scratching my head over that one.
2) They clean up after themselves. One of the few times that there has been a shortage of seats at Miller when I've been working and the only time (regardless of the crowd size) that I've picked up fewer than 4 pieces of garbage when walking the entire balcony and half of the downstairs.
3) They were far worse than the average audience about closing the doors softly when they got up to go out. I would have really liked them, except for the 3 dozen people who went out to the bathrooms in the middle of the morning session without closing the door softly as they left. This left me to grab the door knob from my seat and hold the door myself. Since I was sitting in front and a little to the side of the door this had the unpleasant effect of ripping my shoulder out of its socket (not really... but it did hurt). I suspect there was a correlation between the large number of people getting up and the large number of people who had happily chugged their caffeine without giving me a hard time earlier. Oh well.
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