Day 12: All I Did This Weekend

An update...with pictures!

Friday: Work. Left early cause my aunt had to be at the Salk(where she works, the guy who invented the cure for polio built it, a bunch of scientists work there). Met everyone she works with there, it was fun to see how scientists work and how they all interact together. It's cool b/c at 3:30 every day they all take a break from work and have tea together, it was fun to take part in that. After I was a test subject for my aunt to make sure this test she is making is properly working...it is. I may be helping improve the art in it though, yay. Then I babysat for the next door neighbors. All I did was watch Cheaper by the Dozen with them, put them to bed and then waited until the parents came home. Very easy job. And geez did they pay well, I can’t believe what the hourly rate is out here(well at least for the neighborhood I’m living in)!

Saturday: Went shopping (Targets out here don’t compare to the ones in MN at all). Walked to and explored Old Town, it was kinda fun but so touristy, but they do have my favorite Mexican candy there for practically nothing, so I’ll have to walk down again. My aunt had this benefit thing at night, so I just chilled at home.

Oh Old Town, you just can't help yourself, you're so touristy!

Sunday: Went to Balboa Park with everyone in the house. It was really nice, I know I’ll be spending lots of time there once I get my hands on a bike I can borrow (which should be soon). Really worked on my Distance Ed. Classes like doing the test prep., blehhhhhh. Took a nap, apparently I was tired. Got up. Had a birthday dinner for Laurie, one of the workers who is here on the weekends with Colleen. Dinner was delicious-we had grilled shrimp, couscous with kale, grilled vegetables and apple pie for desert. SO GOOD, but I was so full after. Went to the night service of The Rock church out here (apparently it’s this huge church that a lot of people from NWC have told me about), it was pretty good, though perhaps a little to big for my liking and I kind of felt like I was on one of those televangelist shows on Sunday morning, except more contemporary flavor. Liked this church better than the one I went to last week, but I am trying out another one next week I think. My aunt left for Las Vegas too, she’ll be back on Wednesday.

Part of Balboa Park...I'll upload an album or something soon of more of the park, as this doesn't even begin to capture it.

Monday: Another start to the work week. All the programmers were at work, so they are starting to do all the code work and such to make my animations work with the CERT program the scientists in my lab have created. Relieved to know I set up everything perfectly for them, they’re going to do something to fix the code so it can work with my animations better. I’m excited to see when they are done with the coding, gah that’s going to be amazing! Otherwise, just chilling at home for the night, going to really work on getting some coursework done for my DE classes… I just want to be done with them already!

I have another few thoughts floating in my head that I wanted to write about, so I’ll hopefully be getting to those sooner rather than later, because they are more enjoyable to write. I know you all want to know what I’m doing out here, but I just feel like I’m writing a big old list, which is probably kind of boring. Journaling is not really more forte.

~Lauren