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Evening Activities
Things people were doing in my house from 1 to 3 am:
messing around online
baking cookies
assembling furniture
playing portal
playing with power tools
vacuuming
playing with electronic calipers
eating dinner
Things people were not doing:
sleeping -
Okay!
I'm alive. Mathcamp progresses. Teaching is getting gradually better and easier and I like it.
Amos was here. Now he's not. He took my car away with him.
I've been able to see more people, slowly. iheartpompey and I went to the mall last night and I finally got Apple to replace the dead power adapter for my computer. I also got to see misshepeshu, katealaurel and xwrn the ( Read more... ) -
The short version
*I'm in Portland.
*I'm working at Mathcamp.
*I'm living on the Reed Campus.
*I'll be here 'til mid August.
*I am really busy setting up and planning courses right now. It will get saner next week. -
Complaints
Man I need a back massage...
Also rain has conspired to keep me from biking to Davis Square. Blargh.
On the upside, went shopping with my mother. Now have a really neat biking jacket. -
Grand Tour: Day 10
Mostly for money reasons I decided to head to Boston on Sunday rather than Monday. But my train didn't leave until 11:30, so scazon and I headed to the national mall beforehand and wandered about. Disappointingly, the museums didn't open until ten, so we couldn't wander through the natural history museum as we'd planned. We did take lots of possibly ( Read more... ) -
Grand Tour: Day 9
Because of concerns both financial and time-related, we decided we needed to get from Nashville to DC in one day. So we got up early, went to breakfast with Vickie, and hit the road. We made good time, AND we finished the BBC radio series of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
The only thing we saw that was at all interesting was this at a rest ( Read more... ) -
Grand Tour: Day 8
We contemplated doing touristy things in Little Rock, we really did. But the only thing we could think of was the Clinton presidential library and, well, no. Apparently there's not much to see, anyway, since all of the interesting stuff will be classified for another 20 years at least. So we took off, and drove to Memphis ( Read more... ) -
Grand Tour: Day 7
On Day 7, we escaped Texas. Perhaps I should philosophize about it: Texas is a state of mind. Or something. Actually, the second day wasn't so bad. After San Antonio we headed north. Bit by bit, it got greener, first with scrubs and eventually small trees. That is, of course, when there was any kind of growth at all. For a long time it was ( Read more... ) -
Grand Tour: Bonus
This song has been stuck in my head for most of the trip.
(I saw her perform with Jonathan Coulton in Seattle in April...it was awesome.) -
Grand Tour: Day 6
On Wednesday morning, we woke up in El Paso. I had wondered, the previous night, if Texas would look somehow different, since we got in so far after dark. But it didn't. Like everywhere else, there were lots of strip malls.
El Paso is, however, right next to the Rio Grande (which, as you can see, is not particularly grand). So we decided to ( Read more... )