Maxime left just before lunch today, so I'm on my own again. I met the Big Boss briefly for the first time; Joseph Zyss is extremely busy and hasn't been around much. He seems like a very nice person, and I hope I get to talk to him a bit more before I leave next week. That's about it for today. It seems like the setup is having some problems, presumably with the alignment, but I may not have time to figure that out. When I finish the presentation, I'm going to crunch through the data Maxime and I took at the beginning of the week and look at the polar angle emission patterns just to see what I can see.
After work, Kierstin and I went to the St. Sulpice area and found a moderately fancy patisserie from which we bought moderately fancy pastries. Back at the Armenian House, we cooked and ate dinner, then joined Mir and his newly-purchased treats for a Pastry-Tasting Party. Mmmmm. Kierstin contributed a pistachio thingy, I brought a yummy yummy mille-feuille, and Mir went all out and brought, let's see, a wonderfully decadent chocolate thing, two "Hugo" pastries which turned out to be of the melt-in-the-mouth type, and (my personal favorite of the bunch) a St. Honoré cake. Oh cream-filled goodness. Oh sweet crunchy caramel shell. Mmmm. Between the three of us and the present-in-spirit Margaret who received a share of each pastry, we each ate the perfect amount of each treat. What a wonderful idea.
That was the highlight of the evening. Kierstin goes to Prague very early tomorrow morning and will be there all weekend, and Mir is heading off to Spain. But I'll be in Paris, and I have More Plans!
Oh, here are a few pictures of the main building at ENS Cachan and of the RER stop, just because:
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