Sleep ...

I just slept for 7.5 hours straight which is awesome.  That's actually more hours straight than I typically sleep at home, when I usually get woken up by the cat or by Pete or by myself.  The conference today is a bit shorter (only 'til 5:30 instead of 7 + social time) and I'm not going to the conference dinner since I didn't know about it until Tuesday.  Instead I'll have dinner with a new friend and hopefully relax a little bit.  Then I get to sleep in a little tomorrow since I don't have to be at the conference until 10.  And Sunday, I'm free to sleep as long as I want.

I don't have curtains on my three floor to ceiling windows yet, but we are apparently having them installed sometime between Friday and Wednesday.  It sort of sucks because street lights just shine in the room all night.  The one nice thing about not having curtains is that I wake up gradually as the sun comes out because then it's light in my room.  Once I get curtains I'll have to balance the "no streetlight" thing with the "it's nice to not wake up to a blaring alarm clock" thing.

I'm feeling less crabby and homesick today, so that's good news.  I also managed to order a couple of pairs of shoes last night, since I realized I forgot to bring shoes that you can wear socks with aside from my sneakers and my gym shoes.  I managed to get free shipping to Spain through Amazon UK, which I was pretty proud of.  And I feel like I deserve a little present, so two pairs of shoes it is!