Weathering the storm

Ok, I'll admit that I am my own storm but I made it through the rain! After an anxious night of not knowing what is going on, I woke up this morning with renewed resolve to make it work (did I just sound like George W?). First, I went shopping including buying some band-aids for my blisters... you can see the meat of my feet! Hot.

I also received an email from Jaap to meet at a coffee shop near his apartment because he's not fully mobile yet. We met and all is well. He has a great dataset that we are going to work on, I will have an office set up for me tomorrow, and I'm actually a little intimidated by him. He has been on the tenure track for 2 years now and has an article in press in a top journal (JPSP) and another under 2nd review there. I've been told here once before that it is very American to say "Have fun" but that seems to be how he approaches his research as do I. So, we should get a lot of work done and I'll be kept busy. I'll vacation and everything as best I can (promise), but I fall apart quickly with too much idle time. I'll be glad to get to work and see something productive come out of my time here.

Oh, and Europeans are not as keen on air conditioning as Americans. The coffee shop we met at had no air conditioning. Jaap said it's partly because it usually doesn't get hot enough here for it... well times are changing. It's going to be hot while I'm here. Oh, and they don't use ice much either. Can you imagine buying a coke from the vending machine only to find out it's warm... ewwww!