happy friday?

halfway done ;-)

ben passed this time around :-) i was the first person he called when he finished, even before his parents :-P... i'm way happy for him :-)

my REU students are done with presentations. it's hard to gauge how long students will take when told to talk for 15 minutes. the first several presentations went majorly overtime today, but the next few were shorter than expected, so it averaged out to being done early again.

nonetheless, those hurdles are jumped through.

the professor who was stressing me out a little at the start i genuinely think likes me now... not just the comments i've made earlier in the week, but he also stopped me in the hall today to tell me that of all the REU graduate coordinators he's worked with, he thinks that i've found the best balance of firmness and sweetness... he liked how i handled the students earlier in the week who had been oversleeping, but that before and after that i've been genuinely nice and friendly to them, and he commented that he wished more of the grad coordinators would be able to accomplish that :-P that made my day :-)

movie night for the students in an hour... we'll see how many come... hopefully several more than the few i've had verbal confirmation from so far... there's also several girls who are going out of town for the weekend and WON'T be there... i hope i didn't buy $45 worth of snacks for nothing!

oi.

more later.