Ready to rumble

I have recently become entangled in an epoch battle to the death. It's the EVO SEM versus me. I seem to have forgotten this is one of the world's classic blunders. Only slightly less well known than "Never start a land war in Asia." I tell EVO to do something and it yells at me in German. Literally. It pops up dialog boxes in German with exclamation points. I only recognize the words "uber" and "nicht". Basically we are both set on the other's demise... only me slightly less so, as EVO costs 400k.

The stage automation function finally exists, but nobody in the museum knows how to work it. Except me. And it's my job to figure out the most poorly designed piece of software (p.o.s., hah) that I've ever encountered. And then I've got to teach everyone else. I've made lots of headway in the past few days, much to EVO's dismay, but I still can't quite get a standard procedure down aside from "Enter numbers in such a way that the machine will not yell at you in German. Push start. Stop if it gets finicky."

EVO woes aside I have lots of fun pictures from this weekend, but they'll have to wait. Jaime flies in tomorrow evening! I'm so excited. But now I'm about to go for a run and then it's off to China Town for a fellow intern's 21st birthday!

Cheers,

Chelsea

PS
For the love of God listen to Rodrigo y Gabriella. It is such beautiful music by two very talented guitarists.