Day 1: Thursday
My trip started quite poorly. I wrote a whole post on the first day so if you want more detail go here: A squatter's journey to the Marine Biological Lab (MBL). I posted (of course) to twitter along the way. Here are some of my posts:
- Heading to Woods Hole/MBL-giving talk for symposium for the Microbial Diversity Class http://t.co/o2hx0tf #fb
- Anyone out there recommend best way to get from Logon to Woods Hole after 10:30 PM (no Peter Pan bus) w/o renting car?
- Got lots of responses to this including from @ctitusbrown and @PhoebeFossil and @larry_parnell
- Best suggestion was from Julie Huber
- Thank you Delta for out early arrival in MSP- not so many thanks for sitting on runway for 20 minutes ad more waiting for gate
- Yhgtbfkm - we finally got to a gate at MSP and the gate agents keep missing our door with jetway
- @nwheat maybe I'll see you as I head to my connection
- Had a long twitter conversation with her about the fact that both of our flights were becoming disasters
- Plane was very late bit now in a nice Prius from Green Shuttles on way to Woods Hole #gomicrobes http://t.co/zwAHWy
- UGGGH - arrived Woods Hole/MBL; got dorm room key at 1am; woman in room not very happy; finally got other hot crummy dorm room; Ahh MBL
Woke up at the Swope Dorms and, thanks to the lovely reception I got from the Housing Staff (see A squatter's journey to the Marine Biological Lab (MBL) again for more detail) I was not very happy. I went in to town to get a latte and something to eat and then made it over to the Microbial Diversity Course to hear a few talks and see some of the folks there. Then I went back to my dorm room, packed up my stuff and abandoned Swope and went to the Sleepy Hollow Motor Inn just up the road, a bit out of town. I had already called and they held a room for me (I tried the one place actually in town but they were full). So I checked in, dumped my stuff and then walked back in to town. I eventually ended up going to dinner with some of the course TAs and other personnel.
