halfway there...

what a day.

i think my schedule for the day is easy (something at 5pm, something at 8pm) and it turns out not so much....

several of my grad student friends thought 3pm was early for me to show up to the office for the day, but i had emails at 12:30 asking where i was anyhow...

so many little things to do. in CoRE (where the dimacs students have offices), we had made name plates for their office doors like they were staff... in Hill (where the math reu students have offices), the building does nothing, you have to post your own... but to make people happy, i designed and printed up name plates for the math dept. doors today.

emceed the orientation dinner and don't think i made anyone mad, i think in general it went well. note to self: must learn how to pronounce czech names... i asked the czech graduate coordinator how to pronounce his last name and imitated the best i could but he corrected me (i couldn't precisely tell a difference) and i still got it wrong, to the amusement of the group of them who flew in from prague yesterday... i promised i'll get it right by the end of the summer :-P

although i copied the previous year's schedule to plan presentations, seminars, and the like, some professors want me to change things around even though rooms have been reserved since january, so tomorrow, even though i technically don't have anything planned or any reason to come in, i need to come and discuss reworking the schedule... oi...

for a part-time "easy" job, it's turning out to be not quite as slow as some people might think.

go figure.

i get to run housing orientation in an hour... go lara?