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Colorado and stuff...
Jul. 28th, 2002 10:42 amIf you don't want to hear how my vacation was then don't read this. Don't worry I doubt anyone will be all that jealous. So the important thing to note is this... I really did have a great time. Being home with the people who care about you and are happy to see you is always good even when everything seems to be going wrong.
So here goes:
Friday. Leave Logan around 9:00. Flight is ok get window seat with no one next to me. Yay!!! Land in Cincinatti grab a slice of pizza. Get back on plane. Get to denver around 1:00 MST. My parents pick me up at the airport. We go to Chili's on the way home because I am starving. I start up the computer to run some data. Mom and I go to the mall for a little while. We come home and I think we just talked and stuff.
Saturday. Lisa's day to see friends in the evening. Mom made palachinken for Breakfast... kinda like crepes only Hungarian Style... my favorite. Go to the health club with dad. They don't let me use the punching bags after all. I do my normal warmup with the rope etc. and then promptly pull a muscle in the back of my leg. Mom and I go grocery shopping. I make my fabulous yuppie salad for lunch. About now I realize that the dialup modem really isn't working.
Well anyway go out to dinner with friends. Then we go to a couple bars. Very nice have a great time.
Sunday. Hang out with the rents... Make veggie fajitas for lunch...
So Mom and Dad and I go to by a PCMCIA card modem for my laptop. That doesn't work either. Even with the correct drivers installed etc. Arrrgggh.... Abandon it when friends appear. Go to dinner with friends. Play robo rally with mom and dad. They actually kinda liked it. (although kept accusing me of adding rules) Then I have a nervous breakdown. I start crying and carrying on. Finally I realize that I really can't work with my advisor anymore. I just can't deal with someone who refuses to help me because he believes it is wrong to help a student (I really mean this) and then gets mad because I don't make any progress. I decide to try to switch advisors when I get back to Boston.
Monday. Dad's friend tries out my modem because he doesn't believe me that it won't work. Finds out that I was right. There is some kind of hardware problem. Ok so then I go to my old college to try to see if there are any profs around to give me advice about this whole advisor thing. Then my mouse stops working. Finally I decide that just in case something weird is going on with the computer I should take it in. So I take it in to get fixed. Then I go have lots of fun at dinner with my friend Scott. We go to joe's Crab Shack and it was really a good time. A fun place if you have never been there.
Tuesday. Go to the mountains in Vail with rents. Have a great time. Mom made schnitzel for lunch but in Vail we go to Pepi's for more austrian food. Yay!!! Hotel has hottub.
Wednesday. Call computer repair place where guy has thumb up his ass. Suggest to him to make sure the hardware actually works before trying to download any more drivers. We go up on the mountain in the gondalas because of my bad leg. Get lunch on way home. Try to think of fabulous ways to get the data I need from guys at work. Find out that the problem is actually that the right speaker shorted out a while back. It started to melt. System board is probably also shorted out. Accck. See the Bourne Identity with Mom. Is ok. Book is a totally different story and much better.
Thursday. Go to lunch with my mentor from the USGS. She is awesome. Listens to my story and decides that my advisor is a jerk. Tells me that she knew ahead of time that he has problems with his grad students. She and I formulate a plan. She calls people on my behalf. Then I meet with profs at old school. We discuss my difficulties. They think I am right in looking for someone new. Give me suggestions on how to go about things. Go to see Crazy for you at the Arvada center with my parents and best friend. It is the hokiest show ever but its Gershwin so all is forgiven.
Friday. Deal with computer hassles. System board is backordered by Toshiba. Talk to computer guys on the phone forever. Get computer back. Go shopping a little bit. Then out to dinner with girlfriends... very nice.
Saturday. Mom makes palachinken as goodbye breakfast. We go to target to get socks. Go out to lunch. Then onto the plane. Sigh. Didn't sleep well the night before. Sleep through as much of the flight as possible. Someone meets me at the airport. Must say that someone meeting you at the airport is one of the nicest things in the world. We hang out. Go to bed around 3.
So that is my vacation. Someone told me yesterday that among vacation stories that ranked as the second worst he'd ever heard. I think it was pretty great besides the injuries etc. I will say that I wish the repair guy would have called any of the times he said he would. I came across as a bitch because I kept calling them. Oh well all is relatively well. I should be able to use my computer for a little while with no problems. After thesis is done will take it in. Am going to start on Monday figuring out how to find new advisor. Also need to deal with moving stuff. Difficulties with checks means tomorrow need to go to rental office with money order. Parents coming next weekend and I have agreed to spend evenings with them. I will work during the day but I'll be damned if I work all my weekend evenings too. Hopefully can get this damned thesis done on time. Actually may be able to get it done earlier with some help. Any linear algebra wizzes out there?
Plan on having fun day with friends...
Ta Ta.
So here goes:
Friday. Leave Logan around 9:00. Flight is ok get window seat with no one next to me. Yay!!! Land in Cincinatti grab a slice of pizza. Get back on plane. Get to denver around 1:00 MST. My parents pick me up at the airport. We go to Chili's on the way home because I am starving. I start up the computer to run some data. Mom and I go to the mall for a little while. We come home and I think we just talked and stuff.
Saturday. Lisa's day to see friends in the evening. Mom made palachinken for Breakfast... kinda like crepes only Hungarian Style... my favorite. Go to the health club with dad. They don't let me use the punching bags after all. I do my normal warmup with the rope etc. and then promptly pull a muscle in the back of my leg. Mom and I go grocery shopping. I make my fabulous yuppie salad for lunch. About now I realize that the dialup modem really isn't working.
Well anyway go out to dinner with friends. Then we go to a couple bars. Very nice have a great time.
Sunday. Hang out with the rents... Make veggie fajitas for lunch...
So Mom and Dad and I go to by a PCMCIA card modem for my laptop. That doesn't work either. Even with the correct drivers installed etc. Arrrgggh.... Abandon it when friends appear. Go to dinner with friends. Play robo rally with mom and dad. They actually kinda liked it. (although kept accusing me of adding rules) Then I have a nervous breakdown. I start crying and carrying on. Finally I realize that I really can't work with my advisor anymore. I just can't deal with someone who refuses to help me because he believes it is wrong to help a student (I really mean this) and then gets mad because I don't make any progress. I decide to try to switch advisors when I get back to Boston.
Monday. Dad's friend tries out my modem because he doesn't believe me that it won't work. Finds out that I was right. There is some kind of hardware problem. Ok so then I go to my old college to try to see if there are any profs around to give me advice about this whole advisor thing. Then my mouse stops working. Finally I decide that just in case something weird is going on with the computer I should take it in. So I take it in to get fixed. Then I go have lots of fun at dinner with my friend Scott. We go to joe's Crab Shack and it was really a good time. A fun place if you have never been there.
Tuesday. Go to the mountains in Vail with rents. Have a great time. Mom made schnitzel for lunch but in Vail we go to Pepi's for more austrian food. Yay!!! Hotel has hottub.
Wednesday. Call computer repair place where guy has thumb up his ass. Suggest to him to make sure the hardware actually works before trying to download any more drivers. We go up on the mountain in the gondalas because of my bad leg. Get lunch on way home. Try to think of fabulous ways to get the data I need from guys at work. Find out that the problem is actually that the right speaker shorted out a while back. It started to melt. System board is probably also shorted out. Accck. See the Bourne Identity with Mom. Is ok. Book is a totally different story and much better.
Thursday. Go to lunch with my mentor from the USGS. She is awesome. Listens to my story and decides that my advisor is a jerk. Tells me that she knew ahead of time that he has problems with his grad students. She and I formulate a plan. She calls people on my behalf. Then I meet with profs at old school. We discuss my difficulties. They think I am right in looking for someone new. Give me suggestions on how to go about things. Go to see Crazy for you at the Arvada center with my parents and best friend. It is the hokiest show ever but its Gershwin so all is forgiven.
Friday. Deal with computer hassles. System board is backordered by Toshiba. Talk to computer guys on the phone forever. Get computer back. Go shopping a little bit. Then out to dinner with girlfriends... very nice.
Saturday. Mom makes palachinken as goodbye breakfast. We go to target to get socks. Go out to lunch. Then onto the plane. Sigh. Didn't sleep well the night before. Sleep through as much of the flight as possible. Someone meets me at the airport. Must say that someone meeting you at the airport is one of the nicest things in the world. We hang out. Go to bed around 3.
So that is my vacation. Someone told me yesterday that among vacation stories that ranked as the second worst he'd ever heard. I think it was pretty great besides the injuries etc. I will say that I wish the repair guy would have called any of the times he said he would. I came across as a bitch because I kept calling them. Oh well all is relatively well. I should be able to use my computer for a little while with no problems. After thesis is done will take it in. Am going to start on Monday figuring out how to find new advisor. Also need to deal with moving stuff. Difficulties with checks means tomorrow need to go to rental office with money order. Parents coming next weekend and I have agreed to spend evenings with them. I will work during the day but I'll be damned if I work all my weekend evenings too. Hopefully can get this damned thesis done on time. Actually may be able to get it done earlier with some help. Any linear algebra wizzes out there?
Plan on having fun day with friends...
Ta Ta.
