It’s great to be back in the Midwest. It’s almost a rare pleasure to be here anymore, now that I’m not a student in Wisconsin. I’m back at Fermilab once more for a meeting of the Braidwood neutrino experiment collaboration. We’ve got two days of packed sessions, discussing everything from civil engineering to physics topics that go above and beyond the original experimental intent. It’s going to be great. This is a great group of people with which to spend two days in meetings.
It also happens to be my favorite weather pattern for this time of year, too: overcast, with the threat of thundershowers. It would be great to be up on the 10th floor of Wilson hall, overlooking the Tevatron, with a thunderstorm rolling in! *sigh*. It’s great to be back.
Right now I need to shake off the red-eye flight I took to get here (11:30 pm departure Pacific time, 5:30 am arrival Central time – that gave me a measly 3.5 hours of sleep). I have had the pleasure of all ready running into a few of my cherished colleagues from the Washington D.C. lobbying trip a few months back, so that makes me feel good. That’s a good start to shaking off the airline blues!
