It's All White Out!

So it is indeed hard work here at the Advanced Photon Laboratory. Had a 15-hours day yesterday and another 10 today. Maybe I might even head back after dinner later if weather permits. It has been crazily cold, temperatures averaging -15 C. It’s snowing really heavily at the moment. It’s pretty amazing, everything is covered in white, though there is hardly any Christmas mood here at the synchrotron. It is, after all, a high security place for nothing but serious research and it is all sterile and character-less. So yes, till I finish all the work here and get my time off in Downtown Chicago, I s’pose I won’t be feeling too cheery. In fact, I get the feeling I am being banished to some work reform camp in Siberia, like seriously. It's huge, it's isolated and there are even wild deers running around! Still, managed to sneak in some playtime in between work to muck around in the snow and to take some cheesy, touristy shots. I have a couple of hours to chill right now so I thought I might as well write an entry. It doesn’t make any sense at all but at least I can look back and get reminded of how tired and frazzled and cold I am right now. Am watching the news as I am typing this. It seems like the snowfall these few days is atypically heavy and it’s wreaking havoc on the expressways jamming up traffic and all. And the latest news is that a plane at Chicago Airport just skidded off the runway because of the heavy snow! There's chaos everywhere! It feels like Houston all over again, except it's super cold instead of super warm. Why do I always have to run into such extreme weather? It's almost amazing (and eerie too, actually) to think that the US cities I visit are making news. Just my luck I guess!