Most mornings I wake up in a basement room of my uber-cheap-rent apartment. The mornings I don’t, I am either on a trip or camping (which is a semi-regular occurrence). Since being home from the East Coast, I’ve been trying to wake up earlier to develop better sleep habits because school is approaching (and grades suffer at 2 am). I pack a lunch, eat breakfast and I’m away to school, er, work, which is at school. (Sometimes hygiene is accounted for in the mornings. Just joking.)
I work in the tallest building which is near the top of the tallest staircase on campus. Everyday I sit in the computer lab on the 6th floor and stare at multiple computer monitors as the computers they are tethered to perform queries to the new.familysearch.org APIs and extract family trees based on place and time period. I usually sit in the seat with the brightest monitor in the picture and operate all of the computers within 4 steps of me. As the computers work, I compile the data they are collecting, putting them into spreadsheet-reports which the professor I work for will interpret.
This lab is also where I will live when school starts again. I will be taking classes, performing TA and research responsibilities, and doing homework in this nice big lab. The accordion doors that bifurcate the room are usually open during the semester, so it really is a big lab.
Since I am on the 6th floor, I get to enjoy a good view over campus and the Wasatch front south to Springville. There are some days when the air quality is detrimental to one’s health or a blizzard (also detrimental to my health) settles in which completely obscures the pleasant view, though.
I come home and make dinner (which sometimes baffles my friends who don’t usually make dinner). Then, sometimes I go do an outdoor activity like softball, Frisbee, or volleyball. Other times I just surf the web, read, or watch a movie rented by my roommate (to show off the Blu-ray capabilities of his entertainment system, which I’m ok with). Most days are pretty uneventful, which is why I don’t blog about them.
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