To The West

Hello all, this is Chelsea speaking.  Yesterday was an extremely long day.  I was up at 3:30AM, at the airport by 4:30AM, through security by 5AM... and boarded my first plane at 5:30AM.  From there I flew to Houston, and was on the second plane by 8:50AM (central time).  That plane felt like it lasted forever, however I landed around 11:30AM (pacific time) and I finally arrived at my apartment around 12:30PM yesterday. (I didn't fall asleep till 12AM pacific time.)

I don't have too much to write about, so I'll put some pictures in for fun.  If anything we got a "safety" brief from Glenn Platt (IMS Director) -- we're supposed to avoid Market Street and night, and basically never go down 6th.  However.  Last night my roommate, a few of the guys, and I went out for food after the meeting, and on the way back we went down 6th.  Let me tell you, the advice is correct.  It's rather uncomfortable -- there are a lot of homeless in San Francisco (temperature is great here)... but that street specifically seems to have more than the others.  We may have heard a few of them fighting over who had to pick up a dropped bag of crack.  So.  You know.  We were safe.  Haha.

Another fun time was putting together our second bed.  The apartment has a queen bed... so Miami bought a few fold out "beds" (I'd call them cots) so we each have our own bed.  We couldn't get it to not fold in on itself.  We almost gave up for the night, and then we found the extra parts (yes, we had dismissed them before because we only saw wheels... and at the time we thought "wheels, we don't need those - we're not moving it around anywhere").  Turns out that there were also some connectors and knuts in there to make it not fall every time you touch it.  It was a real struggle to make it work, but we won.  We're doing what Colin and Tyler did last semester - I'm on the small bed for half the semester, and then I'm taking the big bed over Spring Break till the end of the semester.  I've included a picture of the tiny bed for your viewing pleasure.  The upside is that it's right under a window with a great(ish) view of things.  Another picture of said view is included for your delight.

Otherwise I don't have much to write.  Today we're adventuring to Whole Foods to get some groceries (apparently Walmart/Target/Kroger/any major store is more of a midwest/not San Francisco kind of thing... so expensive r' us is what this trip is going to be) and for lunch (yay salad bar and mac n' cheese!).

Oh! I do have an interview for an internship on Tuesday.  It's with a company called Zozi (basically, Groupon with a focus on "adventurous" things, like learning how to ride motorcycles, and such).  They're interviewing four of us with the hopes of taking on two of us.  So we'll see how that goes.  Also.  Here's a big deal:  we're going to Google on Friday.  So that's going to be really exciting and fun.  Pictures will be taken.

That's all I have for now.  Exciting times are to be had this semester.  Adventure is out there!  Haha.