Monday, November 26th

What a day, got home one hour ago (it's now 9.30). Was a long day, I am running my study tomorrow and just as I contemplated coming home part of my experiment decided to enter fast forward mode - no time to read any of the screens or answer any of the questions. just stared at it in disbelief. The scary thing is I still don't know what was going on. I recovered a file of a few hours earlier when it was still working and am now using that one instead. Going to get to the uni early to check everything once more, I still keep finding a whole load of mistakes, really stupid ones.
Perhaps it was punishment for thinking I could take of 2.5 days during thanksgiving. I went back to Amherst to see some friends I had not seen in 18 years. It was wonderful, a real highlight of this trip. One of the people I was visiting is my age, and we last saw one another when I was 13. So funny to see that his humor and jokes and way of teasing were exactly the same. And he still laughs at my jokes and commented that I still have the same sense of humor too. Real trip down memory lane, the mother still tells him and his sister off in just the same way when they are being silly - I really had to giggle. They are lovely people, I hope to see them more frequently. Amherst was small, much smaller than I remembered (and that disappointed me). As my mother said: You were small then so things seemed bigger, but I had not expected to have seen the whole thing within 20 minutes. I did see the place were I sang christmas carols in a choir (I got put into that because the cookery class was already full - it was NOT my own choice, and I would think the teacher might have wished the cookery class had found a place for me however full...).
I finally invited J for dinner, asking whether he could make next weekend. He said yes, and that was it. So I am not sure whether he actually wants to come but at least I have 2 weeks, almost, to figure out something I can cook and everyone likes...