Day 4 and the food is finally getting to everybody. Not that it’s horrible, necessarily, but it’s just that you start to see the same food show up in diffrent forms several days in a row. Sunday: beef kebabs; Monday: beef dip sandwiches; Tuesday: flank steak; Wednesday: beef goulash. Still, it’s free and somebody makes it for me, so I can’t complain too much. By tomorrow night, though, I’ll be craving Wendy’s or pizza or something that tastes mass produced in a different way.

Everyone also notices their skin getting dry and cracked from the air in the rooms. It’s been too cold to open the windows at night, and while the institute is nice enough to provide little humidifiers, they have weird green lights that suggest an alien invasion is beginning.

Plus…no gym this week. There’s a class in there. Which means no basketball or anything else. Not that I’ve had a lot of time for it anyway.

But on the upside our group seems to be doing well. We’re well on schedule for tomorrow’s presentation, and I’m actually excited about the content. I’m hoping we can blow a few people away, or at least freak a few people out. Disruption!!

48 hours from now I’ll be home. Seems far away (since there’s a late night, 8 hours of classroom sessions, a presentation, a night at the bar and an exam packed in there) but surely I can propel myself on diet pepsi for that long.

Punch it, chewie!