It's not my turn to shout

Last night was pretty awesome. First off when I got home Putnam made some awesome lemon and pepper chicken with coconut rice. Pretty good. After dinner we got a call from one of the guys in one of the other rooms. They went out and found a bar that had 4$ jugs which is amazing around here. The pictures are of the some of the group having fun there. Aparently it was a one time thing, a celebration for the upcoming grand prix. It was in the basement of this hotel and it definately had a fraternity feel but I like that anyways. It took forever to get some beer and predictably it was pretty bad but at least it was really cheap. Eventually the most of the WPI group made their way over to the bar and even though this was about the first time we had gone somewhere with a ton of people our age, we all hung out together and we had a really good time. It was the first time we had all hung out socially as a cohesive group. What was funny was the birthday girl was the only one not hanging out, she was off talking to guys and scamming free drinks. One guy ordered her a shot that consisted of absinth,tequila, and tabasco sauce. I was not jealous of her for that one. We finally made it home pretty late but it was worth cause we had an awesome time.

Woke up in the morning really tired. Slept an extra 10 mins instead of eating breakfast. We decided to try another route to work that consisted of taking the tram to the train station, a train to the train station, and a bus to work. I thought it was a stupid complicated idea but I went along with it anyways. Long story short, we took the wrong bus for about 20 mins and by the time we caught another one and found our way to work the whole commute took about 2 hours. So ya, my vote is for the tram.

Spent the first half of the day interviewing training instructors over the phone. They were all really cool and eager to give input for the project. We asked them mainly about the volunteers' opinions that they had heard. Some of them were too eager and ended up giving us their point of view but most of them gave us some really good insight that we can use to further refine our survey. Went to a new place for lunch today, it was ok. It was called Nando's, it's like one of those fast food nice place hybrids. Had some chili (as in pepper) chicken sandwhich and chips. It was just ok. It was another scorcher today. Up around 40 degrees centigrade. We got back to work around 1 and we finished up the instructor interviews by about 2:30. We started to work on an updated methodology, which a draft of is due on Monday. Worked on that for the rest of the day. Talked to Steve a bit (5mins) on AIM Express which I finally got to work on my computer. I made fun of him for Brett Farve retiring. He made fun of me for the blog. The usual Steve conversation. I heard Uconn lost, which means Ben's grumpy. Anyways we made ok progress on our draft due Monday but by 5pm we hadn't gotten to nearly the level at which I wanted it to be. Max kinda frustrated me because he wanted to leave but was unwilling to work on it at all this weekend. He basically refused. I mean I can understand why but still the work has to get done some how and I don't wanna do the entire thing. I'll figure something out this weekend I guess. In summary, a productive though frustrating day.

I've got some pretty big plans for this weekend. If it all works out we'll be going down to St. Kilda tonight where there are apparently some awesome clubs, I'm going charter fishing tomorrow morning, and I'll be going to the F1 Melbourne Grand Prix/Kiss concert on Sunday. Should be tons of fun even if I have to squeeze some writing in between everything. Cheers.

P.S. This is an old post; I wrote it on Friday but I'm posting it now. But I got a camera cable so enjoy the pictures.