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Prevassin (France), 00:22 on Saturday, July 5. Waiting for the beam.
Yesterday was a fantastic day at work. Breakfast 08:30, particle physics lectures from then till noon, then lunch (with summerstudents), then lunch again (with coworkers), then coffee in bldg 28, then two hours of work, then off to see this fortification where the Rhone goes through a notch in the Jura mountains. Pavel-the-elder's two college-aged daughters are here visiting and they have been conscripted, grafted into the heirarchy here under the direction of Liz and me. We've been set loose with power tools, drilling and banging and taping and building up this second half of our electron calorimeter. Jason, maybe you should give physics another thought — these polish girls turned on the stereo with their mix CD and first came on Belle and Sebastian. Off in two cars to Fort l'Ecluse on the Rhone; four summer students (me, Liz, little Pavel, and Robin), Matt, Pavel, and Pavel's two daughters and his mom; hiked up to the top, and then set off about in the French countryside. Roads blocked by cows walking home. Back to Meyrin and then to the beach.
Today, going away party for Pavel's mom at their house in Thoiry; stories about 1984 nobel laureate Carlo Rubbia from their landlady who was his secretary at the time. Why bother with Suburbia when there is the french countryside? Off to Geneva to see the fireworks for the American independence day (I have been in the U.S. for July 4 only once in the last five years.) but we miss them because they project the fireworks over the old town and not the lake as expected. Sleepily and annoyed (for the missed fireworks) back to France for our midnight appointment with a 100 GeV electron beam, night shift at the test beam.
Yesterday was a fantastic day at work. Breakfast 08:30, particle physics lectures from then till noon, then lunch (with summerstudents), then lunch again (with coworkers), then coffee in bldg 28, then two hours of work, then off to see this fortification where the Rhone goes through a notch in the Jura mountains. Pavel-the-elder's two college-aged daughters are here visiting and they have been conscripted, grafted into the heirarchy here under the direction of Liz and me. We've been set loose with power tools, drilling and banging and taping and building up this second half of our electron calorimeter. Jason, maybe you should give physics another thought — these polish girls turned on the stereo with their mix CD and first came on Belle and Sebastian. Off in two cars to Fort l'Ecluse on the Rhone; four summer students (me, Liz, little Pavel, and Robin), Matt, Pavel, and Pavel's two daughters and his mom; hiked up to the top, and then set off about in the French countryside. Roads blocked by cows walking home. Back to Meyrin and then to the beach.
Today, going away party for Pavel's mom at their house in Thoiry; stories about 1984 nobel laureate Carlo Rubbia from their landlady who was his secretary at the time. Why bother with Suburbia when there is the french countryside? Off to Geneva to see the fireworks for the American independence day (I have been in the U.S. for July 4 only once in the last five years.) but we miss them because they project the fireworks over the old town and not the lake as expected. Sleepily and annoyed (for the missed fireworks) back to France for our midnight appointment with a 100 GeV electron beam, night shift at the test beam.
