Flight Ends, Summer Begins
A short 5 hour red-eye (or “shut-eye” according to JetBlue) from Oakland to Boston, and suddenly I’m back here at the lab, tired and spacey, definitely worse for wear. Annie is now really gone, her desk all cleared out. Kelly’s is almost cleared as well, and Burak is gradually removing his things and setting up a a workspace at home. This school year is coming to a close. The new students arrive next week, which gives Amber and me only a little bit of time to rearrange the office like we’ve been discussing with John. We also have a Simplicity lab workshop tomorrow afternoon at the faculty club, and I should be preparing my short presentation for that right now.
It’s always surreal taking a red-eye, not really sleeping enough to delineate the experience of being where you were yesterday from being where you are today, and not being awake enough to be able to logically separate the two. Yesterday I was barefoot on the sun-heated street admiring Jenn’s new surfboard, a used but quite lovely Santa Cruz 6′6″ epoxy that she aquired in trade for her previous cruddy board. Then this morning I found myself groggy and sullen on a red line train packed with Boston commuters reading the free Metro paper. I expected to jump right back into things, but I should be more realistic and give myself a buffer day.