Updating

[tahnan]

Just so y'all know, a lot of updating is being done over at cqs, which I'm using to more or less track general professional things as opposed to personal things. "How was the first day of teaching?" falls somewhere in between, but all the same, it's over there.

Comments

[entropyspring.livejournal.com]

Whoa - wait a minute - you're teaching? at Penn? when did this happen? have I been living under a rock? (in a gorge, more likely, but never mind)

Would you mind giving me a fuller update when you get a chance?

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

It's a one-semester appointment, for two courses. Of course, that means I didn't want to move down here permanently, so I'll be shuttling back and forth between here and Boston. (Easier than my departmentmate who has to drive up to Ithaca, where his wife is in the linguistics department.) It came together in November, so it's been something of a whirlwind.

[entropyspring.livejournal.com]

November to January is a pretty short time to put together something like this. Are you commuting from Boston or renting a short-term apartment or what? Hope it's going well for you!

And yeah, the drive from Beantown to Ithaca pretty much sucks. We've done it once and may do it again sometime this spring.

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Well, for Charles, the drive is Philly to Ithaca--no shorter, but perhaps prettier.

I've got an apartment down here that I'm using Monday-Thursday.

And it's...yeah, not so bad. :-)

[jenaflynn.livejournal.com]

Congrats on that. Is the drive much of a pain to do, or are you flying some of the time?

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

I don't have a car, so it's primarily flying. It's hard to tell how annoying that is, because my first three trips will all be by different routes: I came here from Anaheim, CA; I'm taking a shuttle flight up to Boston tomorrow; I'm taking the train back here on Monday...eventually, I get to have a routine.