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 ;)

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.

Today I am having/had my first Pixel DCS (Detector Control System) Observer shift in the ATLAS Control Room.
Watching the baby from 15h to 23h … not much happening though!

In case you wanna be part of it … here you go! Live Webcams!
I am sitting in the front left arc in both pictures …

[Update]
It actually turned out to be two shifts in a row from 15h to ~7h … it got a bit more interesting at about midnight and when I finally managed to remind myself of the bus schedule I notice that the last one left already … voila, I stayed until the bus ran again and enjoyed the night shift, which was eventually more educative than my actual training shift …