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dormitories and dormiendo
Oct. 3rd, 2012 08:46 amThe paper was submitted in a big hurry while I was out, since our competitor's paper came back from peer review with extreme speed. We are definitely stretching the boundaries of cosubmission here. Some trouble with the supplemental movies, which I solved Tuesday morning my time; they can be resubmitted. Luckily I have many other things to feel freaked out about!
This is all very well organized and deeply weird to me. I got picked up this morning by someone I knew from the lab, and sent off with someone I'd just met to check into the dorm and get things. All of which we did. I filled out many forms and went to the dollar store, where there were no strawberry glasses, and the department store. We visited the lab briefly (I got a hug from the PI's wife, who is very sweetly motherly with everyone) and got lunch at a cafeteria, then I went back to my room and was torpid, reading Emma off and on, unpacking gradually, and eventually napping properly for almost three hours. I felt gross on waking but eventually stirred myself to go to the convenience store for food and mostly juice. Then more sleep.
Still a little headachey this morning, and feeling the distance and newness quite a bit. It's lovely weather, though, and I am overcoming my anxiety even if I'm shaky. I'm getting picked up again this morning and taken to the lab with another new student, a Russian woman, who's also staying in this dorm though I haven't met her yet. I already saw that I have a desk in the lab's office, so hopefully getting settled in there will help me feel better. Walking around outdoors definitely does. I'm farther from the shinkansen station than I usually got on my last trip, and the decline in people speaking English to me is noticeable, but having a sense of the place helps me feel at home. And my katakana's coming back quickly.
This is all very well organized and deeply weird to me. I got picked up this morning by someone I knew from the lab, and sent off with someone I'd just met to check into the dorm and get things. All of which we did. I filled out many forms and went to the dollar store, where there were no strawberry glasses, and the department store. We visited the lab briefly (I got a hug from the PI's wife, who is very sweetly motherly with everyone) and got lunch at a cafeteria, then I went back to my room and was torpid, reading Emma off and on, unpacking gradually, and eventually napping properly for almost three hours. I felt gross on waking but eventually stirred myself to go to the convenience store for food and mostly juice. Then more sleep.
Still a little headachey this morning, and feeling the distance and newness quite a bit. It's lovely weather, though, and I am overcoming my anxiety even if I'm shaky. I'm getting picked up again this morning and taken to the lab with another new student, a Russian woman, who's also staying in this dorm though I haven't met her yet. I already saw that I have a desk in the lab's office, so hopefully getting settled in there will help me feel better. Walking around outdoors definitely does. I'm farther from the shinkansen station than I usually got on my last trip, and the decline in people speaking English to me is noticeable, but having a sense of the place helps me feel at home. And my katakana's coming back quickly.
