It's been quiet. After my Monday presentation we cleared out the paper on Tuesday and today it was accepted. Today I was spared the regular meeting because of my Monday talk, and so I spent much of the afternoon tidying up loose ends and making sure things were in order. I'm sure things will be a completely rush when it comes up to the end of October and so I want to minimize the inevitable chaos. On a hopefully note, I found another postdoctoral position which might be promising, but first I sent an inquiring note as I didn't know whether the closing date had passed.

The post-doc position was taken.

Well, it's been a busy last few days. On Friday the transfer PhD student arrived with his wife, he seems nice enough though I have been a bit busy to talk to him so far.

Saturday I spent at the lab working on experiments which weren't too productive. I was in an odd mood and needed to talk to Ally and then Mum which set me straight. That night Avi and I drove up to Hollywood (North of Miami) to have dinner, we found a nice place, but the music was very loud alas. After that we headed over to a comedy club with Anthony and Jill and watched the comedians. I didn't think that they were particularly funny, but there might be a slight cultural gap. We headed home about 1 am because we were all pretty tired.

The next day was one I had been looking forward to for some time. For some time Ed had been talking about running a "Call of Cthulhu" role-playing game. It seems that Ed was as obsessed about running the game as I was about playing it. After we drove over, enter "Father Patrick O'Donohue" Jesuit priest, occultist and part-time alcoholic (during the Prohibition era). We had a great time, and we played pretty much straight through from midday until 11 pm. The scenario isn't close to being finished and so we will be playing Saturday and hopefully this will be a regular thing. :)
I was a bit tired the next day, but ran the usual series of experiments. We had a group photo and then several in-group seminars. Today I had a follow-up appointment with my surgeon and he said everything looked great, I was also very busy with the experiments. I haven't found much new on the job front, but I have 80 days to go so I will continue to search. Gaming was cancelled tonight which was fine by me as it gave me a chance to do some shopping as well as shave my legs and do other maintenance.

8:40 pm - I've been ringing the local college radio station trying to win tickets to Level nightclub. This Friday they're having a gothic/industrial night with a specific Fetish theme and special guest Dita a Betty Page style model who is a well known fetish pin-up girl.

Another day, another blister.

Today was the usual meeting, it actually went suprisingly smoothly. Perhaps he's happy that I'm self-directing and getting results, or perhaps he's just preoccupied with other things. I doubt I'll be getting dressed up for Dita Friday night, it's just too much hassle to get out to South Beach by myself and back again. Avi wants to catch up which is fine, maybe we'll catch a movie.