MN and St. Louie
Oct. 25th, 2004 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ilex_cassineWell, the trip to MN was excellent. Thanks to everyone who hung out with me, bought me stuff, hosted gatherings in my name, etc.
Things I especially like about MN:
-Friends who play complicated board games
-Being able to find my way around. It was amazing, the liberation of being able to choose a way home instead of striking out blindly and hoping that I get home before I run out of gas (which has been the state of affairs everytime I've driven in Durham).
-Vistas. It gets so claustrophobic here. Being able to see the horizon in all directions is very soothing.
-Asian food! Whew. So much better than here.
St. Louis was okay. Other than the college area, it seemed to be the land of 10,000 bbq and steak houses that I remember it being. And that arch is just weird. I read my little conference paper, and people liked it. It was better than a lot of the papers, because I did something other than just present results, I discussed the results. Gasp. You'd think that folks would do that as a matter of course, but you'd be wrong. I wish I got along better with academic folks, though- I really felt like I had more in common with the barrista at the Starbucks and the Kinkos counter person than most of the archeologists.
Things I especially like about MN:
-Friends who play complicated board games
-Being able to find my way around. It was amazing, the liberation of being able to choose a way home instead of striking out blindly and hoping that I get home before I run out of gas (which has been the state of affairs everytime I've driven in Durham).
-Vistas. It gets so claustrophobic here. Being able to see the horizon in all directions is very soothing.
-Asian food! Whew. So much better than here.
St. Louis was okay. Other than the college area, it seemed to be the land of 10,000 bbq and steak houses that I remember it being. And that arch is just weird. I read my little conference paper, and people liked it. It was better than a lot of the papers, because I did something other than just present results, I discussed the results. Gasp. You'd think that folks would do that as a matter of course, but you'd be wrong. I wish I got along better with academic folks, though- I really felt like I had more in common with the barrista at the Starbucks and the Kinkos counter person than most of the archeologists.