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Jenny and I flew to Boston last weekend so Jenny could check out the Tufts vet school campus (which isn’t actually in Boston at all - it’s in Grafton). I went along for the heck of it, and visited the Google office in Cambridge, which was bigger than I expected, but still quite tiny. Arriving there was amusing - I initially went to the wrong floor, which had some other company on it. Thankfully they were able to direct me to the floor that Google was on, and I went there. Then when I stepped off of the elevator and walked to the reception desk, I discovered (after introducing myself) that the fellow behind the desk was actually there to fix the telephone and was not a receptionist at all. He suggested that I wait around a few minutes for the real recptionist to return. I did so, and someone who actually works there arrived shortly. He was also not the receptionist, he told me, and the real receptionist was on vacation. So, I wandered around on my own and introduced myself to a few random people. (I don’t actually know anybody in that office, and nobody knew I was coming.) I ended up camping out in their lunch/lounge area for the afternoon, and I left just in time to drive through the absolute worst part of Friday evening’s commuter traffic. It took more than 2 hours to drive from Cambridge to Shrewsbury (which is out by Worcester, and is supposedly a ~40min drive when traffic isn’t completely hosed)

I guess Jenny’s interview/visit/whatever went well, because she tells me that now she (we) have to decide whether to move there. That means she must have been admitted to their ph.d and residency programs. I’m *really* not looking forward to moving cross-country again, but oh well. You gotta take what life throws you. I’m just lucky that I won’t have to change jobs as a result of all of this - it’s extraordinarily cool that I have the flexibility to move to a new location like this, even though my team currently does not exist in Cambridge. I’ll most likely be the first one.

I forsee a lot of interviewing in my future if this comes to pass.

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Hooray, Jenny bought a car. 2006 Toyota Rav4 Sport V6 OMG WTF BBQ etc. RED. She picks it up tomorrow after the dealer shines it up and scrapes all the dumb window stickers and whatnot off of it. (and puts a tank of gas in it, theoretically) I’m sure she’ll be extremely pleased with it - after all, it’s RED and that’s really what’s important.

Now comes the task of selling off her 92 Explorer (also RED, of course, with RED interior), so hopefully that won’t be to much of a pain. The dealer offered her $500 for it and made up some nonsense about the transmission needing to be replaced, which is hogwash. So, we’ll sell it privately. (”on the street,” as the dealer put it)

I’ll post shiny-new-car pictures tomorrow probably, along with perhaps a narrative of the three ring circus going on at the dealership while we were trying to buy the thing. For now, I sleep as quickly as possible because I have to be at work at 8 (which is a full two hours earlier than I normally mosey in!) to be a docent for the Ubucon we’re hosting at work tomorrow and Saturday.

(Update: photos posted)

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