Satisfying Saturday.

I actually can't say that any of my Saturday before 5:30-ish was satisfying (that's when I was at work) but there were good FOH and BOH crews on and Heather is back so it wasn't so bad. 

But lord knows there's no better time to do laundry than on a Saturday night. That's what I did and I had my pick of washers and dryers the whole time, without even having to worry about getting back to the laundromat in time so that someone else wouldn't have to wait for me to take my stuff out. As if that weren't enough, I also made a much-needed run to Hannaford's between washing and drying so I'm both clean and well-stocked. Excellent.

I had three exams between Thursday and Friday and the upshot has been that homework is light this weekend. I feel pretty comfortable with my effort and progress so far so I've taken most of tonight to do non-school stuff, including relaxing. Also excellent.

Oh, I wanted to mention that I worked my first proper shift at the MRIL on Friday, logging about four hours before I had to leave for that other job I reluctantly cling to. I began by sitting down with Hyomin, who is the graduate student with whom I expect to do most of my work in the foreseeable future, so he could explain in more detail what he's working on. Actually, the conversation started out with me mentioning that I had had a test earlier and he asked which class the test was in. I told him physics and he waited for a second before tentatively asking "General physics? But you're a sophomore, right? I thought you were supposed to take that during your freshman year..." I had suspected that he (and the faculty member with whom I originally spoke about the position) thought I was a sophomore but I never said anything because it never came up. No worry; I've done nothing wrong and I know that I've impressed them in what little ways I can so far so I don't expect any harm to come of this wee realization on Hyomin's part. After he explained the neat physics behind his work, we set up an experiment to test an old version and a new version of a piece of his equipment (to make sure that the new one responds similarly to the old one) and I spent the rest of the afternoon staring at an oscilloscope, inputing signals to the equipment and measuring their responses. It's physics and I like it.

That's it for now. I'm going to shuffle around for a little while longer then relax my way into bed.