Maciej's Departure

All good things must come to an end.

Maciej and I couldn't really sleep (having woken up so late) and ended up being awake for most of the night (sans 30 minutes sleep) on Sunday. Unfortunately for me, I still had to go to work so I ran off very little sleep for the entire day at work.

At work, I did some confocal (Japanese lab equipment is wicked cool. I mean it's the same as in the states, just cleaner and more organized), which wasn't too successful, but then again it wasn't really for my own project anyways.

I also had a talk with Orihara-san (Kanami). When I first came to the lab, I was told I should probably focus only on my own project and not ask to join in others' work. Kanami came up to me and as it turns out, they were all wondering why I was only focusing on my own project and not just jumping in on other people's projects. I explained and it seems there was a bit of miscommunication between lab members but all is worked out. We'll make the best of these last twenty days!

After the long day I went home and slept for a couple hours. Tonight was Maciej's official going-away gathering so I had to wake up. Even more people this time (people had brought friends and some new people had moved into the building) were on the roof and just in general having a good time.

Chris (the one I mistook for an American) I found out grew up on a boat. How wicked is that? Most your life is spent on a boat traveling from place to place. Anyways, shortly into the night I went back to sleep and woke up to the sun. Now at this point I've had a 30 minute restless nap the night before, then a 2 hour nap, and then another four hours of sleep, but I felt okay. So after chatting with some people I just went off to work catching the second bus of the day (7:11 AM)... and was the first one at work. That was a new experience.

I'm frantically trying to write these 14 single-spaced pages of summer homework before I get back to the states while trying to become more involved in lab. My brain's racked. :) But it's a good feeling.

Mata ashita.

Tim-san