We’ve had her a week already, and have her until Saturday. The cats are getting bold now :) As always, she’s good for my mental health, but she’s getting to be an older lady and I worry about that leg…
Yet another visit from not-my-dog
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Divinum 2022
Divinum is done for another year. I volunteered for all 6 nights, schlepping and washing the ~2500 glasses multiple times over. Ben came to help. Katy came to drink. So did I, but I paid for my supper with 6 days of 15K-20K steps. Saw a bunch of familiar faces, some new ones. Was fun. Tired now.
Simple moment of pleasure
Yes, yes, I know smoking = bad, but I only now ever indulge very, very infrequently. This was a quiet moment during Divinum, when the machines were idle, and the music was loud.
Last big nutrition sciences department drinks
At Ta Cave, Lausanne, 05.04.2022
FWOOOSH!!!
Colin and I achieved red-hot metal without explosion or immolation. This is a win in our books. Going to start trying again to make a fully fledged knife.
Swiss F18s formation flying
The Swiss military is doing formation flying drills over the lake this morning. They’ve been buzzing over the EPFL campus for the last 20 minutes or so. Damn, they’re fast! They’re almost already out of frame as soon as I have the reflex to press the shutter button. And the noise is impressive!
Katy’s new business cards
Sharing bites
I took Not-my-dog with me to my doc appointment in St-Sulpice. I’ve done it before and the doc loves her. We were early today so we shared a croissant on a nearby park bench, before she went on a full-on charm offensive with a tennis ball.
I love that dog
I was dogsitting NMD from Thursday to Sunday, on my (mostly) lonesome while Katy is away. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I love that dog. She’s really good for my mental health. She forces me to go on twice-daily walks and run around like a nutter with a frisbee and a squeaky tennis ball.
Normally when we have dogs over, Katy sleeps in the guest bedroom to be around the dog, while the cats are self-isolating in our bedroom. This time, the guest bedroom has been turned into Ben’s 2nd (gaming) room so I slept on the sofa. Wasn’t as horrible as I expected it to be. Even though I’m not sleeping well anyways these days, it was…. OK.
I love the fact she climbed up on the sofa with me this morning. Enough so that I made her breakfast in bed :)
She’s gone back home now, and I’m in my big (empty) bed.
Edit: a few more day-sits for NMD
And at one point I thought I was going to need to wade into the lake.
And now I can breathe
We’ve been working on a big, BIG, presentation for work for the last couple of weeks. Today, it’s been presented to top management of our institute and one of our partner businesses. It was only a 5 minute pitch with 10 minutes for questions.
I was remote for the meeting because I think I’m coming down with something but I dressed to impress, even if only the upper half :)
I’ve been bricking it all week, but it went well. I’d practiced my pitch, and I don’t think I messed up anything beyond an unexpected cough. I was happy when one of our stakeholders sent me this by email afterwards:
“BTW good job – one of the only projects [HEAD OF FOOD BUSINESS] complimented that was very clear and aligned 😊”
That’s me done for today. I’m beat, and I want coffee (and maybe a glass of wine after 5pm).