Welcome to MarbleSlab and the Great American Cookie Company

Tonight is the soft opening of Conway's MarbleSlab on Salem. We are inviting friends and family to come and let us practice serving customers... and as my family doesn't live within a hundred miles, I'm inviting the Starbucks kids and a few others. So far the job seems pretty easy. I like working with customers (as a general rule, I like the public), and the ice cream aspect is pretty simple. My co-workers are younger than I am, which makes me feel like a grandpa, but it's cool. One of them reminds me of Billy Boyles from AHS, and that's amusing. My bosses seem pretty laid back so far, and so I think this could be a good gig.

My IRB is almost completed, I am waiting for an email from Tricia over in the Honors office to plug in some information, and then I'll be able to print it out. Today I worked on the Informed Consent Cover Letter that has to be attached to the IRB. When it all gets done, I'll print that, the IRB, and my NIH completion certificate. I should probably do some actual research today, as well.

Last night I went to the Flying Saucer with Jem, Jenny, Jacob, and Ben. It was pub quiz night, and we didn't do too well, but we had fun anyway. Jem and I rode down together and back, and we had a nice time chatting and listening to the new U2 album, No Line on the Horizon.

T