Yes. That face just about does it. Traveling. By myself. To a place I've never been. Where I know no one. Great. And couple that with this overwhelming fear that my experiment isn't going to work, and you've got someone who is simultaneously on the verge of tears and punching the guy at the gate whose cell phone actually says "you have a text message. You have a text message" loudly every time he gets a text (which has been enough in the past ten minutes for me to want to punch him).
My family keeps warning me of terrible weather (storms) in TN. Thanks, family. I needed more things to be concerned about. Luckily, the spallation neutron source seems like a safe place to be in a severe weather situation- as my mom pointed out.
Mostly, I'm afraid I'm going to have to email my advisor and say "hi. The project that you put a large monetary value on isn't working." That would surely involve many tears on my part. I also haven't figured out if I actually get to leave the SNS during my 4-day run. I intentionally didn't ask the beam line scientist because it would be one more thing for me to stress about if they said no.
In preparation, I'll be sure to shower at the latest possible moment before my run starts. Hygiene, ftw. And on that pleasant note, TTFN avid readers (all zero of you). I'm going to hop in this giant metal thing and fly across a few states.
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