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The Topic of the Day is: Friday, May 23, 2008 | |
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Arecibo Observatory, Day 1: Got 3 hours of sleep last night. Flights to Chicago and San Juan were easy. Struggled back into my Spanish and managed to find the appropriate taxi driver (pre-arranged), get to a grocery store, and make it up to the observatory. The roads are hellishly close here, and everyone barrels around them at 50, and they're very hilly, and on one side there's a drop off and on the other there's a nice steep hill. Or, occasionally, little patches of town, with everyone parking on the street and making it extra dangerous. The observatory is... indescribably gorgeous. Everything's dense and overgrown (reminding me, disturbingly enough, of the remake of the King Kong movie... let's hope they don't have critters that large. eek), and it's moist and humid and it rained twice on the way up. And the noise outside! It's a chorus of thirteen different frogs and birds and other things. Very dark, badly lit, very steep. Getting back to my cabin (at the tiptop of the hill) is interesting... the car couldn't make the hill so I got out and walked. It's like Bascom only you don't have to go as far. and it's a little steeper. It smells like flowers and trees, and I am sure that it will take three days for my sinuses to adjust. After some fun miscommunication, Ganesh and Dana and I met and toured the place a bit. Met Chris, Tapasi, and Piya again, as well as some other people whose names I don't remember (except for David's). Found out that I will, in fact, get to go to the dome on the top of the telescope (AAAAAAAAAAA!), hopefully not soon so I don't get too freaked out about it. My project is... proof of concept? something the telescope users have wanted to see for 2 years? I don't know yet; I thought I was just building a receiver with certain lines filter-removed, but something about seeing the whole telescope? It's an interesting challenge. I want to find out more. But first, I want to sleep in hopes that my low-blood-sugar, low-sleep-level, high-stress-level, high-humidity-level headache will go the hell away. |
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***Tbook1 (Time and Chaos, needs a new name, needs to be edited) ***Book of Sun (Just needs to be edited. Tis a Nano novel) ***Book of Whispers part 1 (Does not jive at all with part 2; needs to be rewritten to fit and to have less suckage) ***Book of Whispers part 2 (Needs some rehaul editing, needs some loose ends tied up, needs to fit) ***Book of Whispers part 3 (Needs to be finished... then needs to die o.o Not sure if I need a third part in the series) ***Dium's Story (Needs a point, progress, anything... needs to be integrated into Tbook1, since that is what it is a part of, mainly) ***Trio Story with Jackie and Louise (Maybe we should get together and work on this, guys) ***Demon Story (This is working out pretty good so far. I like the plot, it's a bit convoluted, and the characters are interesting) ***New Witch Story (It's only 30 pages long, dang) ***Dragon's Voices (This has SO much potential! wee!) | |
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