Spring Break Rocks!
Especially in my group. Considering how loose everything has been since Monday I really have gotten an astonishing amount of work done, not to say I've been terribly productive, but I have managed to get at least a bit done every day. However, today was an event.
There were four of us in the office and our advisor was gone. We got a bit done in the morning, but the afternoon was the entertaining part. Around three we were standing around talking and the guys were throwing their bouncy ball back and forth when they decided to play a game of "thesis ball." The rules are really quite simple. The batter takes swings with a thesis at a bouncy ball that has been hurled at him in an attempt to wing the ball into the lab across the hall, dislodge ceiling tiles, knock books off shelves and generally wreak havoc. The game was called when the thesis was accidentally hurled halfway across the room, hitting a filing cabinet and my arm before falling to the floor.
After "thesis ball" was called due to incompetence we adjourned to the lab across the hall for a game of euchre. Did I mention that we played on a two ton laser table that was floating on nitrogen? I chipped three nails on the screw holes in that table. About half way through the first game something we had been wondering about happened. Our advisor walked in. (during the best hand I had the entire time) He had just gotten back from his trip to a conference out east. After a quick moment of what could have been astonishment, he laughed at us and proceeded to tell us about an idea he had/talked about at the conference and then told us to go back to the game.
I love my group. It rocks.
After the game we got back to work, and I think I may have actually made a bit of progress on a couple of things, so that's happy. Unfortunately, I've still got a looong way to go.
There were four of us in the office and our advisor was gone. We got a bit done in the morning, but the afternoon was the entertaining part. Around three we were standing around talking and the guys were throwing their bouncy ball back and forth when they decided to play a game of "thesis ball." The rules are really quite simple. The batter takes swings with a thesis at a bouncy ball that has been hurled at him in an attempt to wing the ball into the lab across the hall, dislodge ceiling tiles, knock books off shelves and generally wreak havoc. The game was called when the thesis was accidentally hurled halfway across the room, hitting a filing cabinet and my arm before falling to the floor.
After "thesis ball" was called due to incompetence we adjourned to the lab across the hall for a game of euchre. Did I mention that we played on a two ton laser table that was floating on nitrogen? I chipped three nails on the screw holes in that table. About half way through the first game something we had been wondering about happened. Our advisor walked in. (during the best hand I had the entire time) He had just gotten back from his trip to a conference out east. After a quick moment of what could have been astonishment, he laughed at us and proceeded to tell us about an idea he had/talked about at the conference and then told us to go back to the game.
I love my group. It rocks.
After the game we got back to work, and I think I may have actually made a bit of progress on a couple of things, so that's happy. Unfortunately, I've still got a looong way to go.
posted by Victoria at 10:29 PM
1 Comments:
Victoria! So glad to hear you're having a great spring break! I have not been as productive as you, but at least I have had the opportunity to catch up on a little reading... Oh, and I think later today I will be playing with diet coke and mentos. :o) I'll keep ya posted on how that goes. :o)
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