Someone is ringing a bell in the office. The kind that's on the desk of the IIT post office. It's making me oddly homesick. Or that might be the fact that I turned my screen brightness to max to try to make myself more alert. It's not really working, but I'm still plugging along. I really hope that I'll think better tomorrow when I'm better rested.
Things I'm trying to do:
- get Ruby and ruby version manager working on mac
- finish the analysts problem part 1
- finish the microtesting segment of Industrial Logic
Things which are making me fail:
- indian bathrooms
- the book cabinet is locked
- my music and the micrpotesting movies can't exit simultaneously
- Mac keyboard shortcuts
- IntelliJ vs eclipse
- eclipse autocomplete is different on mac
- shouldersurfing
- worrying about the stuff in my room that's locked up because the locks are crappy
I'm enormously happy that I have a power converter. I can charge everything now.
I'm a little worried that my team isn't meshing yet... but these things take time. Actually, I'm more worried that I specifically am not meshing. Partially because cubbing, tourism, and drinking are subjects of lesser interest to me than to others. I shoudl stop worrying. It's day one. We barely know each other. And we're all sleep deprived and in culture shock. It'll be fine.
The guys in reddish-purple polo shirts are... servants? Staff? They serve the food, come around and pick up the dishes, take out the trash, etc. It's a little awkward but not that bad.
There are two coat trees of motorcycle helmets in the front lobby. Apparently almost everyone has one of those.
Martin Fowler is sitting at the table to my right. I'm debating with myself whether it would be too terribly horribly geeky to ask him if we could take a picture together. I know several people who would be very envious. ...to be honest, that would involve getting up, which would involve motor control... and I'm too tired to have that.
Something about India makes me use many elipses. Possibly because of the uncertainty factor inherent in everything?