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and that comes to an end next week. And I wanted to bake a batch of my oatmeal/chocolate chip/macadamia nut cookies to take in on Sunday, but that didn't happen. I get up Monday, start getting ready, and find an email that has a subject like 'water line break, we might have to close the campus'. The line in question is not on-campus, but the main supplying the campus and presumably part of the area.
They closed the campus. But it did give me time to bake the cookies Monday afternoon.
And Tuesday they closed the campus. Apparently they fixed the break, and when they went to test the fix, it leaked in a different spot.
Today they closed the campus for the rest of the week. Apparently it's a pretty serious problem.
Now, one batch of cookies made 4+ sheets of 20 cookies. Russet messed up the work schedule and she's working six nights straight, which is largely unprecedented as no one on her telescope usually works more than 3 nights in a row. But she went in Monday and Tuesday to help with a visiting class - those are always a mess because now you have an additional dozen students in the control room, then tonight and tomorrow she somehow scheduled the new guy, a grad student working on his PhD, during engineering!, and then she's scheduled for three nights! The telescope scheduling is done on a quarterly basis in two parts: the science schedule, which is a major PITA, then the work schedule, which is fairly easy. She just failed to notice that she put the new guy on an engineering slot. He would have to learn it sooner or later, but not when he's TAing and working to finish up and defend his thesis.
So I guess she's going to be taking most of the cookies to work tonight and I'll make a fresh batch Sunday or Monday. And I'll work either extra days next week or the week following. Later I'll load my hours into a spreadsheet and see where I'm at in terms of making the time that I'm supposed to for my internship, but more importantly, I've got a feature to add to the catalog database that I'm writing for them that I need to get done.
Wheeeee.
Oh. And on top of all of this, I checked out a four disc DVD set of Midsomer Murders, so that'll be four items one week overdue. I sent an email to the woman in charge of the library saying 'This is just a clever ploy to get two days of late fees for my box set, isn't it?' and she replied 'Devious, aren't we?'
I expect they'll be waiving late fees since the campus will be closed all this week.
They closed the campus. But it did give me time to bake the cookies Monday afternoon.
And Tuesday they closed the campus. Apparently they fixed the break, and when they went to test the fix, it leaked in a different spot.
Today they closed the campus for the rest of the week. Apparently it's a pretty serious problem.
Now, one batch of cookies made 4+ sheets of 20 cookies. Russet messed up the work schedule and she's working six nights straight, which is largely unprecedented as no one on her telescope usually works more than 3 nights in a row. But she went in Monday and Tuesday to help with a visiting class - those are always a mess because now you have an additional dozen students in the control room, then tonight and tomorrow she somehow scheduled the new guy, a grad student working on his PhD, during engineering!, and then she's scheduled for three nights! The telescope scheduling is done on a quarterly basis in two parts: the science schedule, which is a major PITA, then the work schedule, which is fairly easy. She just failed to notice that she put the new guy on an engineering slot. He would have to learn it sooner or later, but not when he's TAing and working to finish up and defend his thesis.
So I guess she's going to be taking most of the cookies to work tonight and I'll make a fresh batch Sunday or Monday. And I'll work either extra days next week or the week following. Later I'll load my hours into a spreadsheet and see where I'm at in terms of making the time that I'm supposed to for my internship, but more importantly, I've got a feature to add to the catalog database that I'm writing for them that I need to get done.
Wheeeee.
Oh. And on top of all of this, I checked out a four disc DVD set of Midsomer Murders, so that'll be four items one week overdue. I sent an email to the woman in charge of the library saying 'This is just a clever ploy to get two days of late fees for my box set, isn't it?' and she replied 'Devious, aren't we?'
I expect they'll be waiving late fees since the campus will be closed all this week.
