Yesterday midnight, at the end of my shift at the MIT reactor, I looked over my desk and found a piece of bubble wrap that presumably my training supervisor, Frank, had left there for me recently. It made me very happy, for I have been known to have a great passion for those. "Not a bad day of work after a long week" was my thought.

The space in front of control room had become strangely empty, due to the green table and RRPO's cabinets being moved somewhere temporarily. Then I realized that I'm not up to date with all things happening in the reactor any more. I used to spend 90 hours a week here, but as term rolls in, I only came for one or two shifts. Instead, I've happily become a 90-hour-a-week worker for the 6 classes I'm taking this semester.

Another thing that made me extremely happy today was an email from a listener of my radio show on WMBR (MIT's radio station), Spherio ( http://web.mit.edu/hemisphere/spherio/ ). On Friday, our guest speaker was Fernando Brandao ( http://www.fernandobrandao.com/Home.html ), a Brazilian flutist and music professor at Berkeley College of Music. After the show, we received a fan mail - someone fell in love with the interview and Brandao's music. I thought it was really awesome.