at Woods Hole
Jul. 21st, 2015 08:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jinianThere's a workshop. As things are, I didn't really want to come, but I planned it well in advance with my boss and our grant paid, so here I am until next Wednesday.
I had an easy bus trip down on Sunday; it's always nice when the vehicle is mostly empty. I arrived to find a little tourist-trap town with a ferry to Martha's Vineyard and no real indication of what to do. My phone GPS helped as usual, but the emails I had didn't tell me any specifics. Eventually I resorted to wandering the campus and accosting an employee, who sent me to the building in the back that didn't look like part of the same campus. Of course.
From Skype:
- my dorm suuuucks D:
- i have this tiny bottom bunk, since when do postdocs have to have roommates, and only one desk between us
- there is no climate control and it is sticky-gross out
- and we apparently have a bathroom shared with the next room
- i don't know about that because it has been occupied since i got here
I didn't at that time realize that the beds were also uncomfortable. I'm having trouble sleeping, so that's making my head hurt, and the bed is so hard that my hips hurt too.
The class material seems good but it's hard to stay alert when I feel crappy.
So far the food is all right, I let them know what I couldn't have and there's always been something workable. There's a little non-touristy beach that's pretty nice, though I didn't get to see the rumored bioluminescence because it has a night security guard -- not clear on where people actually go to swim at night.
I don't like it nearly as much as Friday Harbor, but I'll get through it.
I had an easy bus trip down on Sunday; it's always nice when the vehicle is mostly empty. I arrived to find a little tourist-trap town with a ferry to Martha's Vineyard and no real indication of what to do. My phone GPS helped as usual, but the emails I had didn't tell me any specifics. Eventually I resorted to wandering the campus and accosting an employee, who sent me to the building in the back that didn't look like part of the same campus. Of course.
From Skype:
- my dorm suuuucks D:
- i have this tiny bottom bunk, since when do postdocs have to have roommates, and only one desk between us
- there is no climate control and it is sticky-gross out
- and we apparently have a bathroom shared with the next room
- i don't know about that because it has been occupied since i got here
I didn't at that time realize that the beds were also uncomfortable. I'm having trouble sleeping, so that's making my head hurt, and the bed is so hard that my hips hurt too.
The class material seems good but it's hard to stay alert when I feel crappy.
So far the food is all right, I let them know what I couldn't have and there's always been something workable. There's a little non-touristy beach that's pretty nice, though I didn't get to see the rumored bioluminescence because it has a night security guard -- not clear on where people actually go to swim at night.
I don't like it nearly as much as Friday Harbor, but I'll get through it.
