14 - 20 may

14 monday
went to renew my buspass, went to the gym, went to the grocery store, and went to work.
spent a bunch of time breaking the still-remaining pinatas.

15 tuesday
went to the gym.  used the computer on campus. went to work.  painted pet rocks.

16 wednesday
went to glasgow to have an appointment at the apple store about my charger.  becky met me so not only did i get a new, working charger, but i also got to spend 2 hours with becky.   we went to the debenham's cafe and then the modern art gallery.  i only wish we could have spent some more time.  but both of us had to go to work.
went to see a flat with brittany.

17 thursday
went to the gym, went to work, went to wannaburger with brittany to celebrate her finding a flat.

18 friday
went to work - made fake, peanutbutter free, uk-style puppy chow.

19 saturday
walked around town with brittany.  went to the bank to cancel our standing order rent payment.
PHOTOS: http://blogographannex.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/town.html

20 sunday
today.

6 - 13 may: modena italy

6 sunday
day of travel to get to modena, italy.  took the bus to the airport, flew from edi to amsterdam, flew from amsterdam to bologna, hung out waiting for the shuttle bus, took the bus from bologna airport to modena bus station, and then walked from there to my hotel in the centre of town.
had dinner at the restaurant next to the hotel where i was sat next to a canadian couple so we chatted throughout.

7 monday
met chiara and a number of people at the hospital.  found out more about what the project is and met with the computer tech guy, luca.  had lunch at the hospital bar and upon trying to charge my computer, found that the charger stopped working.
had a light dinner at a cafe and some gelato by myself in the evening.
PHOTOS: http://blogographannex.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/modena-1.html

8 tuesday
went to the hospital.  tried to track down a charger and downloaded a trial spss version on chiara's computer in the morning.  went off campus with chiara and francesca for lunch.  had a delicious modena-style sandwich for lunch.  worked on inputting data into an spss file in the afternoon.
went out with people for happy hour and a traditional italian dinner.  lots of food, lots of fun.
had a guy get angry that i was from wisconsin and liked chicago at the bar.

9 wednesday
re-made the spss file with updated data and spent all day making the data file.  had lunch at the hospital canteen - a salad as i was stuffed from the previous dinner.  went to happy hour with chiara and francesca after work.

10 thursday
made 2 additional databases for the other sets of data.  had lunch at the hospital canteen.
went out with the group to have a japanese meal.  delicious and ate far too much again.
PHOTOS: http://blogographannex.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/modena-2.html

11 friday
created lots of tables and a summary of the preliminary findings.  was hot.  had lunch at the canteen.  met with the professor to present the work i did and discuss the project.  finished early and went to the museum.  had a slice of pizza and some gelato.  sat in the plazza and listened to the bells.  watched speed 2 dubbed in italian.
PHOTOS: http://blogographannex.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/modena-3.html

12 saturday
tourist day.  went to the enzo ferrari museum.  passed by pavoratti's theatre, went through the park, saw a small modern art exhibit.  sat at a cafe by the ducal palace and had barotzi (modena's specific dessert).  climbed the bell tower. watched some pop up video in italian.
went to bologna with chiara, francesca, and bazzo for a concert: john spencer's blues explosion.
had dinner at a pizzeria mmmm.
PHOTOS: http://blogographannex.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/modena-4.html

13 sunday
day of travel to get back to edinburgh: walked to the bus stop, took the bus to the bologna airport, hung out there until my flight to amsterdam, and then had a quick change to get to my flight to edinburgh and took the city bus back to the flat.
went to the pub for dinner with brittany upon returning.

30 april - 5 may

30 monday
went to the castle to get the pressed pennies and went to buy the blanket at the weaving mill.
went to oscars.

1 may tuesday
skyped with adrian.  tried to sort changing my scholarship start date.
ellipticaled 5km
went to work.

2 wednesday
ellipticaled 5km
went to work

3 thursday
went and collected my last pottery pieces and saw the final edinburgh hoodie street art.
PHOTOS: http://blogographannex.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/more-caslin-hoodies.html

4 friday
went to work - first friday worked.
long, obnoxious day.

5 saturday
finished packing for my italy trip.
went to mexican for cinco de mayo with brittany and janemarie.
PHOTO: http://blogographannex.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/dinner.html

4000 words or so

or so i thought.  i worked on writing up results this weekend.  results that no longer are anything.  and that's many words deleted.  and many new analyses to be done.

i try to think that this will be an improvement.  in fact i know that it will.  but i hate to lose that time and start over again.

i'm in the wrong time zone for these issues.

with twitter and others' posts, i read/see a lot of stuff.  most of it isn't really worth it.
but here's two that i've enjoyed this week so far:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304811304577366332400453796.html

http://www.solitarywanderer.com/2012/02/date-a-girl-who-travels/