Another year … another Julefrokost (or Christmas Lunch, if you prefer).
This time the first one (at least for me) outside of Copenhagen, but since most of the young guys, from my time at NBI, are at CERN these days not much of a change …
the menue was (too) great and big as usual … fish, fish, fish and pork, pork, pork … and of course a lot of alcohol … after all its a Danish Christmas party ;)
A lot of fun that was even increased by the fact that Heike was around for the weekend (unfortunately only for the weekend :( )
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Education and Validation
Yesterday I spent about eight hours in my first CERN Guide Course to learn how to better understand, respond and deal with visitors.
We ended up doing little presentations of ourselfes/CERN/the itineraries at CERN in front of the others, the expert (being flown in from Paris) and the camera … yeah, and afterwards everyone would watch it again and analyse the whole thing.
But it turned out to be quite useful to get this kind of feedback …
Id addition we had couple of exercises on how to ask the right questions (which would uncovering instead of influencing questions !?!) …
Yeah … quite educative and also quite entertaining after all …
On Monday I will have my second (and for now last course) getting to know all the itineraries myself …
After that I just went to the ATLAS Control Room to see if anything was going on. Since I got all my shifts canceled this week I felt like I have to catch up a little …
So I was enjoying my first datataking of cosmic events … (which is actually not too exciting in itself) … but I had two of the experts around … so again this was another quite educative four and a half hours … which in the end seemingly brought my DCS Shift Validation … which makes me a Pixel Detector shifter now if everything is confirmed ;)
Talks, Cooling Problems, Köttbullar and Cooling Problems
This is obviously not my week (and also not ATLAS’ week) … ohh man!
I spend my weekend almost exclusively on preparing a talk for Monday … and finally still didn’t manage to put in much new stuff. Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning went into preparing a talk for Tuesday (which went much better). And then the whole sadness started … on Tuesday my DCS validation shift was canceled due to some cooling problem and today my DAQ observer shift was canceled due to another cooling problem … ohh man!
Ahh and Köttbullar … right, that was, besides watching Wall-E, one of the few highlights … having nice dinner at Jenny’s … hmm.
Wall-E
This one has been on my list for a while and I was a bit sad having missed it in cinema … but it when browsing through my local Geneva video rental thingy I found please to find out that its already out on DVD. So off I went … and it was definitely a good choice!
Another very nice movie from Pixar … these guys just know how to get it right.
Certainly worth watching … as usual!
A Clockwork Orange
This time I decided to go for a classic one … A Clockwork Orange!
Nice book by Anthony Burgess about some veck (guy that means) in his youth taking part in some weird rehabilitation program … but I don’t wanna write too much about the actual story … cause its definitely worth reading.
Just to mention that its sometimes a bit hard to read cause of all the slang words used throughout the text.