Yawn. I am BEAT. After my bout of insomnia the other night, I had a miserable day and then had to take a nightflight to Chicago for my Braidwood collaboration meeting. With only 3.5 hours to sleep on the red eye flight, I caught two more short hours after arriving at Fermilab. After that, I spent all day in my meeting. <\/p>\n
\nI must say, it’s truly refreshing to see a collaboration evolve at its earliest stages. I didn’t get that in BaBar – I joined way too late to see that. Being in the Braidwood collaboration is a very rewarding experience. First, I get to dirty my hands early in the growth of this experiment. Second, it’s a very close-knit group, which means we can have frank and productive discussions without splitting on ideas or goals. It’s refreshing to see such an active group, so easily focused on the most important issues.<\/p>\n
\nAnd, of course, them White Sox won the World Series. That means it was non-stop Sox propaganda from take-off until I arrived at Fermilab. It struck me as funny that these last two years of baseball have resulted in a fairly mismatched pair of sox, one white and one red.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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