what would be your ideal day?

Question: what would be your ideal day?
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Asked by the Doctor to Alice, Bose, Christian, Emma, Steve on 5 Mar 2016. This question was also asked by Kati.
- Alice Harpole answered on 5 Mar 2016:
  
  One where my code worked!
  
  It’s the nature of research that you spend a lot of time trying to figure things out before you hit on the right answer or the right way of doing things. My ideal day would therefore be one of those rare ‘eureka’ days where I finally hit upon the right solution and everything clicks into place!
- Benjamin Bose answered on 6 Mar 2016:
  
  My ideal day …. I’d wake up in a chalet up in the Austrian Alps after a night of heavy snow and have a big breakfast with freshly made bread, freshly squeezed orange juice, fried tomatoes and poached eggs. The sun would be out by now and I’d head to the slopes for a day of snowboarding.
  
  In the evening I’d come back to the chalet with my closest friends and have a great homemade meal together where we’d talk about the days events. Later we’d sit by a roaring fire, sharing a drink and words about life, philosophy, the past and all our shared memories.
- Christian Killow answered on 7 Mar 2016:
  
  My ideal work day would go something along the lines of…
  
  I would arrive at work relaxed and well rested, coffee in hand, having seen no traffic on my way in. I would chat with colleagues before heading to the lab to play with lasers for a pleasant couple of hours.
  
  Lunch would be a relaxed occasion, maybe meeting up with a friend at a nearby restaurant.
  
  In the afternoon, mail would arrive for me confirming the successful award of funding to continue and expand my research – this would be a ‘lifetime grant award’ that the funding council saw fit to create just for me, whereby I never need to apply for funding ever again. This would trigger the University to offer me a lifelong tenured position where my duties would be to teach and conduct research.
  
  Strangely, there aren’t many emails for me to answer and all my to-do lists have been completed, so I head back to the lab to play with the lasers a bit more before heading for home.
  
  Sometimes in my work day, some of those things happen!
- Emma Dean answered on 7 Mar 2016:
  
  My ideal day would be to wake up somewhere tropical. Attend a scientific conference where I’d have the opportunity to present my work to world-leading scientists and get to chat to them about their work. Then head on down to the beach to go for a swim and hangout with the other PhD students.

Question: what would be your ideal day?

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