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jrtomMegan and I spent the last week in Oregon, mostly around Portland. During that time we attended two baby showers for Megan (one thrown by her family, one thrown by friends), spent Thanksgiving with her family, attended two birthday events (one Megan's, one a friend's), and a bunch of miscellaneous social events and hangings-out.
We now have more onesies than the mind can comfortably encompass. (Registering for stuff for our wedding worked out pretty well; while we did get a number of things we neither wanted nor needed, people generally did pay attention to our registry. Registering for baby stuff resulted in an almost complete no-hitter, although in fairness we did ask for gift certificates so that we wouldn't have to haul or ship a ridiculous amount of stuff back to California: we got three items off the list, out of about 50 or so. Oh, and we had to borrow a giant duffel to get everything that we did get back to CA. *sigh*)
I like going to graduate school at UC Irvine: I have a good--sometimes great--advisor, I get paid decently for a student, I get to work (mostly) on what I want to work on, the intellectual environment is great, and I can work from home. (Which is crucial to our plans as of the end of January...) But I grow increasingly frustrated over the fact that UCI is, well, in Southern California--a place in which I actually have a negative interest in living. Yes, there are lots worse places. But I miss the Pacific Northwest, and Oregon in particular, for a myriad reasons, large and small, and I'd like to be done now, please.
We now have more onesies than the mind can comfortably encompass. (Registering for stuff for our wedding worked out pretty well; while we did get a number of things we neither wanted nor needed, people generally did pay attention to our registry. Registering for baby stuff resulted in an almost complete no-hitter, although in fairness we did ask for gift certificates so that we wouldn't have to haul or ship a ridiculous amount of stuff back to California: we got three items off the list, out of about 50 or so. Oh, and we had to borrow a giant duffel to get everything that we did get back to CA. *sigh*)
I like going to graduate school at UC Irvine: I have a good--sometimes great--advisor, I get paid decently for a student, I get to work (mostly) on what I want to work on, the intellectual environment is great, and I can work from home. (Which is crucial to our plans as of the end of January...) But I grow increasingly frustrated over the fact that UCI is, well, in Southern California--a place in which I actually have a negative interest in living. Yes, there are lots worse places. But I miss the Pacific Northwest, and Oregon in particular, for a myriad reasons, large and small, and I'd like to be done now, please.
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Date: 30 November 2004 11:56 (UTC)(This goes for non-anonymous posters, too, but at least I can block them individually if they start being overly snarky.)