Staying away
As it turns out, one of my dearest friends is moving back to Canada City, probably in May. I have a job there for the summer. And we both intend to be in Europe at around the same time — she’s going to be there travelling between jobs, and I’ll be there for a conference. So we figure: let’s travel together, for about a week. We’re debating between London and Paris: the final decision seems to be London if my cousins will let us stay there (no hotel is worth a great deal), Paris otherwise (I’ve never been). Then I’ll go off to talk in Berlin. On the way back I might just spend a day or two in Paris anyhow; it depends on money and other fun issues.
My schedule, weekend by weekend:
Feb 28-29: possibly at the Penn Linguistics Colloquium, probably back to Canada City Sunday.
March 6-7: Canada City (classes cancelled this week, for some reason)
March 13-14: Canadaville if dear friend is there, otherwise perhaps travelling (with her) to — I need new names — Canadaburg. (Spring break weekend 1)
March 20-21: Canada City (Spring break weekend 2)
March 27-28: Tulum Mexico (with a different friend, to what I believe has been misinterpreted as a lesbian weekend of sin; mostly it will be a weekend of beaches and ruins and, sadly, no sex)
April 3-4: Possibly Canada City so I can be home for the (first) seder
April 10-11: Easter weekend somewhere in the US with my parents
April 17-18: London or Paris
April 24-25: Berlin
May 1-2: Probably Dullnesss (finally)
This is pretty nice, because it means I can avoid being in a place I’m quite so unhappy. I mentioned to my old advisor today how terribly unhappy I have been, as a part of why-I-plan-to-go-into-industry. With luck I will see her in March, but otherwise I believe she will also be at said conference in Berlin. Berlin! Another place I’ve never been.