Like, oh my god.
The monthlong stretch of 60- to 80-hour workweeks is now behind me. We finished on Monday with a relatively unclimactic 6pm (PDT, 3am on Tuesday here) code freeze. Yesterday I cooked a giant pot of pasta and forced myself to gorge like crazy in order to finally catch my stomach up for the meals I [...]
After grabbing food, I spot some gin on the shelf of a corner market. Having not yet found any in Tel Aviv, I wandered in to grab a bottle. When he rings me up, he asks if I want some plastic cups, apparently presuming I was going to drink it on the street. No brown [...]
You know, it’s 4am, and I think I’m probably going to stay in tonight. “Code Freeze” for our project is Monday evening (Pacific time) and I have a lot of work to do, plus I dropped a lot of cash last night (even with the free drinks). And, you know, I’ll be here 28 days, [...]
Twelve hours from Atlanta to Tel Aviv! The plane was about one-fifth full, so I grabbed a bank of three seats to myself and gathered up six pillows which, when combined, had the comfort-creation capacity of one real pillow. I lied down for the bulk of the flight, sleeping about half of it and reading [...]