MSRI week 5.2

I know, I know, I'm a day late. I'm sorry. Things have been hella busy this week. Wait, did I just say 'hella?' Shoot. I've been in Cali too long. The vernacular's caught on to me.

This week was crazy with work. We're behind on where we wanted to be with our schedule, and we're finding more and more problem spots as we near the end. The big question is do we try and fight all these fires right now, or do we try and make it out on the other side before we turn around? I vote for the latter. It's at least some results in that sense. Then if we do run out of time we can talk about what we would've done.

The killer this week has been that we've been spending a lot of time preparing for our final presentation. We need to have a 60 minute Powerpoint presentation on Friday, as well as a finely documented report that's almost publish worthy. I think we have to present on it in October, so I'll be missing a few days from school for that, but geesh just when you think you're done, you're not. We had a 30 minute presentation today, and we kinda had to rush through it, so hopefully expanding that out to an hour won't be too bad. Plus they're videotaping it. I should wear my Pac-Man shirt.

The weekend was tiring. We went to work on Saturday, WALKED downhill (I admit- I had wanted to do it at least once), and then went to an Oakland A's game. I'm not a baseball person, but I can totally see why some people are. The thrill of the lights, the comradery (where's spell checker when you need it?), the anticipation of the one guy to make it or break it for the entire team. Maybe's that's why America is very individualistic. Well, you know what I mean.

But I have a lot of work to do and not a lot of time. I might update before I head back to AZ. We'll see.

One of the guys called me "Gentle Ben" the other day after the baseball game. I know what he meant by it, and he explained it, but I don't like being labeled like that. Though I admit, I do it all the time. "Oh, so-and-so is like the secret love child of whats-his-name and whose-her-face." Maybe I should stop.