Week One

Ah, Monday, the start of my second week here in the new job. Something funny (especially for those of you working or living in University towns)... On my drive to work, I cross "Cottage Grove" and then proceed to cross "University" and then turn on "Woodlawn". Do all college towns have the same street names? Or are these names modeled after some locale I'm not familiar with?

I still don't have my computer (it's on order though) and I'm still waiting for the phone to be installed in my office. It's hard to hit the ground running in academia. However, I did already have a *huge* project meeting already, which, thankfully, went very well.

And I spent the weekend relaxing, which was much needed. I got to catch up on some movies... finally saw Stevie which was really excellent, although somewhat troubling. And I was surprised by the Pirates of the Caribbean, which for a movie based on a Disney theme park ride was shockingly entertaining.

All in all, a good weekend, hopefully to kick off a good week at work...