Comments on: Many Happy Returns

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:34:00 +0000

i live in Potrero - near the hospital. it’s not high up on the hill, but even on the not-so-high points, it’s still high. when i come out my door near kansas/23rd, i can look west over towards twin peaks and the big burning-man-like antennae dude/thing - and almost any time of day there’s a different scene going on. the best is any of several different types of cloud events - when they’re ripping over yet hugging the hills on their way to covering most of the city - potrero last.

now working in Mountain View, i’m trying to move down towards MV, closer to work, but i’ll be darned if i won’t miss the views. and the city itself. i have a feeling i’ll be back, but for now, i have to do my penance in the burbs. not sure if it’s punishment for something i’ve already done, or something i’ve yet to do.

i had no idea SF had topography b4 i got out here. sure - i heard about ‘hills in SF’, but I didn’t equate that with - ‘mountain-looking things’ all over the city - in every direction, and even outside the city - south, west, east, and even in north bay. the highways, the coast, the massive strawberry/other farm fields - it’s really unbelievable. this is definitely not America.

all that said, Californians continue to ruin the landscape out here, as I guess most Americans do in their own places - but it seems to me to be especially shameful out here because it seems to special/unique. houses covering everything - now creeping up unused-as-of-yet hills. at first, you’re taken aback at how insanely awesome the scenery is - the mystical hills and clouds and lights - and then you look again and you see what used to be - about a trillion less people and cars and houses and…

By: Risa

Risa — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:26:26 +0000

Great to meet you too, Lauren!
EDT — will definitely write about this soon, just didn’t want to jinx things while they were still in progress.

By: EDT

EDT — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:58:50 +0000

Congrats. It looks all of the post-doc bloggers have now moved up in the food chain. As a physics grad student, I’d love to hear your commentary on the whole post-doc/finding a job in academia process.

By: Katey

Katey — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 21:54:44 +0000

Welcome back to the Bay! If you ever head north/eastish to Berkeley, let me know!

By: Lauren Gunderson

Lauren Gunderson — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 21:07:10 +0000

Yo Risa! SO glad to see ya online. it was so awesome to meet you in your new home town. Hope it happens again soon!

By: graviton383

graviton383 — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 20:21:51 +0000

Hi! Welcome to SLAC/Stanford! Yes, this IS a busy place & there’s never enough time to do all the things you SHOULD be doing..but as JoA said it WILL calm down after a while…

By: Risa

Risa — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:06:45 +0000

Thanks, all. Good to see you, too, Stein — cute little ones you got there. Definitely hope to give it a couple of years. JoAnne, thanks — nice to hear. I’m tickled pink to be here!

By: Steinn Sigurdsson

Steinn Sigurdsson — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:11:27 +0000

Congratulations!
Good to see you in The City last week.
Try to give it a couple of years before you start stressing about tenure. At least.

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 03:13:39 +0000

San Francisco seems like an incredibly poor place to be driving a limo like that (not that they’re particularly practical elsewhere).

Congrats on moving and returning (hopefully regularly) to blogging.

By: JoAnne

JoAnne — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 01:01:37 +0000

Hey, welcome to Stanford! We are all tickled pink to have you here. It will settle down (somewhat, but never like before) once you get settled in…promise.