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meanfreepath ([personal profile] meanfreepath) wrote2008-07-25 01:34 pm

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It's been a while since I've written anything here...

It was a busy week leading up to Pinewoods. I had (in hindsight, perhaps somewhat foolishly) volunteered to give an introductory workshop on LaTeX for the REU students in SEAS this summer, of which we had a few in the lab. So busy was I with research and preparations for the workshop that I did not get to start packing for Pinewoods until scarcely an hour before I was to meet another local dancer for the drive to camp. The workshop went fairly well, aside from some minor technical glitches at the beginning (leaving me ever more convinced that Windows is an absolute pain to work with). Most of the evaluations were quite positive, barring one or two students who basically thought I had wasted their morning.

Pinewoods itself was marvelous. I'll try to write some more about the highlights later.

I am leaving for Maryland tomorrow morning; my maternal grandmother recently had back surgery and I have not yet visited. Unfortunately I will miss [livejournal.com profile] adfamiliares and [livejournal.com profile] jere7my's wedding -- I hope you both have a lovely day.

I had the strangest dream last night -- I dreamt that I was in a Scottish class where the teacher insisted on everyone taking step practice on what amounted to an obstacle course, with steep ramps and steps. I woke up after attempting to do skip-change down a flight of stairs and falling on my face.

[identity profile] olifhar.livejournal.com 2008-07-26 06:54 am (UTC)(link)
Last weekend I was hanging out with Russell (he had a get together) and afterwards we were talking about maybe trying to visit you before I flee the East Coast on a long term basis (don't know if that will work out). Anyway, I indicated to Russell that we kind of keep in touch over LJ.

His reaction was, "What? Jerome still has a blog? What does he write about?" When I indicated that you and most people just write about life, he exclaimed, "I don't get it. Who has the time read that kind of stuff?" He still doesn't get personal blogs. Very funny, very Russell moment.

He had a point, though. We both miss you, dude, IRL.

[identity profile] meanfreepath.livejournal.com 2008-07-28 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
How long do you think you'll still be in the area? Late August will be busy as I'll be cramming for quals, but if you and Russell wanted to take a weekend trip up here sometime I could work around that.