Well, it took two weeks, but we finally have DSL and are once again living the high-speed life. Our apartment is about 75-80% unpacked and set up; what we have left are all the boxes of books, pictures, etc., which will hopefully be done by the end of the weekend. The main problem was shelves -- we didn't have any, because we sold them before ( Read more... )

Movers have come, movers have gone, apartment is full of boxes. However, we have a Bed, and it is comfy. And we have two little kitty cats who are not allowed on the bed, and we have a place to keep wine. We still need to get bookcases for all our books, and we still need a desk for the computer. We also need to get rid of all these [bleep]ing ( Read more... )

Sorry, had to clear the travelogue out of the queue first. We've made it and have found an apartment, in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. Great place, walkable to everything, nice hardwood floors, might even have enough space for all our Stuff. Movers arrive tomorrow, I officially start "work" on Monday (three weeks of research goof-around time ( Read more... )

We made it in to Seattle on Monday, and have been apartment-hunting since then while crashing with wanderinggeek. More on that to come. In the meantime, a quickie travelogue of the past week's adventures( ,cut for space. )

I'm finally getting around to posting the final thoughts about the India trip -- the moving has just been a whirlwind of packing, and graduation's also kept me hopping. They feel a little stale now that I've been back for two weeks, but the insight's still there. There's also some more professionally-oriented reflections up at the main blogAs you ( Read more... )

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I'm back, the weather's warm, and I require animals to be sacrificed to my hunger. Anyone interested in Kaya happy hour on Friday? (beeporama, I can give you a ride if need be, since you're kind of transport-limited.)

Posting from the lounge in Zurich. Swiss keyboards are strange. More about India to follow, but this is not far from how I've been feeling...

I have packed up my things and am lounging in A/C luxury in Jaipur, meaning that it's now about one week until I reach Pittsburgh at long last (and, most importantly, get to see jennifermuppet again). There'll be another post about my love/hate relationship with India, but suffice it to say that I am wicked homesick at this point, and as of about two weeks ago ( Read more... )

Pittsburgh, for those who don't know, currently has a measles outbreak. The source? A seven-year old kid from India.

I think we just found the justification for spending three months out in the desert trying to improve vaccinations...