2007-04-04

long weekend

Paddy and I are going to go to LA to visit the campus this weekend, taking Friday and Monday off work. We’re leaving Thursday night, staying to San Luis Obispo for the night, and then driving the rest of the way in the morning. I’m meeting the grad advisor in the afternoon (whose research I like) and hopefully will get to meet some other professors and students. There were some problems when I was trying to figure out when to come. It was mildly annoying, because I contacted the professor, I said I could come Friday or Monday, and he said to come whichever day I wanted. I said Friday would be better. He emails back and says, you know, Monday there will be more people around. I say, ok, Monday. Then he emails me and says another candidate is coming Friday, so it might be better to come that day. I say, fine, I’ll come Friday and if need be, I’ll stop in on Monday too. It reminds me how flexible academic life is, that they just assume that you can change days and no one at work will be upset. Luckily, we had asked for both days off, so it isn’t really an issue, but it still messed with our hotel plans a bit.

We’re also going to spend Easter with my family in San Diego. We are going to drive down on Saturday from LA and then back Sunday evening. It’s 200 miles out of our way, but whatever, it will make my mom happy. It's important to her that my sister and I have boyfriends, which I was finding extremely irritating. I was freaking out about it, but Di pointed out how ridiculous I was being, and how much worse her mom would be, which made me feel better. Paddy’s great—all he said was that moms are easy; dads are what you worry about. I don’t talk to my dad, so happily, that’s not an issue. It’s just going to be my mom and my youngest brother. My family is at least in state and we can reasonably take a single day. It would be worse to meet his family, not because he doesn’t want me to, but because the expectations are even higher when you are taking someone to another continent. He said maybe when there is a wedding, so we wouldn’t have to stay a whole week at his parent’s place in Dublin. Because that would be awful. I’d just be nervous because both his dad and sister don’t like Americans. Well, his dad doesn’t like Americans, his sister only said that she would never want to come to America, but that doesn’t seem so different to me.

xanthium at 9:33 a.m.

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