back in Milan; back to work

The flight from SFO to New York is ~6 hours, and from New York to Milan ~7. The trip was (happily) uneventful. I even got some sleep on the plane, since I had window seats for both legs of the journey, so was able to pile up my heavy Alaskan down coat, my pillow, and the soft bag of sewing in progress to make a decent resting place. I did find it odd to wake up from a dream wherin I had managed to find a more spacious section of air plane and stretch out across five seats to actually lay down for sleep. Yes, that's right. I dreamt of sleeping. I think I slept deeper during the period of time when the dream-me was horizontal, even though the real me couldn't be.

Landed in Milan this morning at ~8, which had me at the Centrale Station ~10, and back to the house ~11:00. I took time for food and a shower before checking in with my boss, who said he was busy till ~3, so I went back home for an hour nap before my meeting. Work will be busy!

My current urgent to do list for work:

* Prepare an abstract for the EMPG confrence ASAP (orginal deadline was Friday, but I hear it has been extended).

* Prepare an abstract for the EGU confrence. Deadline is Monday

* Open up experiment #4, which ran while I was gone, and get it mounted into epoxy and polished and ready to analyse ASAP

* Weld/fill capsules for experiment #5 ASAP

* Analyse experiment #3 (we had only time to do a quick look at it on the microprobe before I departed for the confrence, and don't yet have any qualitative results) (this will be complicated by the fact that the microprobe is down today--no idea when it will be operational again, but hopefully soon. Then I get to join the list of people wanting to make use of it)

back in Milan; back to work

The flight from SFO to New York is ~6 hours, and from New York to Milan ~7. The trip was (happily) uneventful. I even got some sleep on the plane, since I had window seats for both legs of the journey, so was able to pile up my heavy Alaskan down coat, my pillow, and the soft bag of sewing in progress to make a decent resting place. I did find it odd to wake up from a dream wherin I had managed to find a more spacious section of air plane and stretch out across five seats to actually lay down for sleep. Yes, that's right. I dreamt of sleeping. I think I slept deeper during the period of time when the dream-me was horizontal, even though the real me couldn't be.

Landed in Milan this morning at ~8, which had me at the Centrale Station ~10, and back to the house ~11:00. I took time for food and a shower before checking in with my boss, who said he was busy till ~3, so I went back home for an hour nap before my meeting. Work will be busy!

My current urgent to do list for work:

* Prepare an abstract for the EMPG confrence ASAP (orginal deadline was Friday, but I hear it has been extended).

* Prepare an abstract for the EGU confrence. Deadline is Monday

* Open up experiment #4, which ran while I was gone, and get it mounted into epoxy and polished and ready to analyse ASAP

* Weld/fill capsules for experiment #5 ASAP

* Analyse experiment #3 (we had only time to do a quick look at it on the microprobe before I departed for the confrence, and don't yet have any qualitative results) (this will be complicated by the fact that the microprobe is down today--no idea when it will be operational again, but hopefully soon. Then I get to join the list of people wanting to make use of it)