Then I ended up leaving pretty late, because I realized some of the flaws after 3 pm, and I wanted to finish before leaving, which I did around 4:15. So I ended up being stuck in traffic, all the while rushing to downtown to eat dinner before YFAT. Oh well, half an hour late, what can you do? I find that road rage, which usually isn't a problem for me anymore, comes out when I'm late and stuck in traffic. This bitch cut into my (Fastrak) lane when the divider was still solid--obviously you're not supposed to do that. Then as cars in front of her move, she just stays where she is. I honk angrily, and she picks it up and hits the gas. Then the same thing happens again. Only this time she cuts out of the Fastrak lane. See the problem here folks? Why the fuck are you coming into the Fastrak lane and not even moving if you weren't going to stay in the first place?
Also, I HATE cars in the Fastrak lane who stay in and then try to move out at the last minute, holding up all the cars behind while they are waiting for openings in the slower lanes. They should really start ticketing them. I admit that it is inefficient to have Fastrak lanes from an engineering point of view, but we bought these $40 Fastrak transponders for a fucking reason. Get the fuck out of my fucking lane you fucking assfuck.
Anyway, HI! Here are some pretty pictures.
This is the (Samuel) Silver building, one of the two buildings at SSL. It's the main one, and it houses both administrative offices plus labs and such. I don't work at this building though.
As the building looks from the back down the hill. The brown building next to it is not part of the SSL. It's the MSRI, or Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. It looks like this from the front (notice the fog blocking out the rest of Berkeley and Oakland in the backgound -_-):
My experience with the MSRI was not exactly happy. Well, I've never been in there, but I've seen some of the people who work there. They're mostly young (maybe just for the summer?), and way too loud and happy. They used to take the shuttle down at the same times I do, so they hog up all the seats too. Gradually I learned to avoid taking it at those times, and I haven't seen much of them for the past month. But yeah, they were annoying when I had to deal with them.
Finally, here's the Addition building, the second of SSL. This is the building in which I work, on the third floor. I think it's slightly bigger than Silver, since it's an L shape rather than a solid rectangular box.
