{"id":823,"date":"2012-02-25T14:19:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T18:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/?p=823"},"modified":"2012-02-25T14:23:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T18:23:24","slug":"last-couple-of-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/?p=823","title":{"rendered":"Last Couple of Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two months ago I was in St. Louis&#8230;then Milwaukee, then Princeton, then Pittsburgh, then Princeton, then New Orleans, then Nashville, then Milwaukee, then Princeton, then Nashville, then Houston, and back to Nashville. \u00a0DC and Durham were also supposed to be on that list, but car troubles prevented that. \u00a0I could go into extensive detail about the past couple of months, but lets just say they involved multiple car problems, multiple conferences, multiple unexpected nights on an air mattress, but most nicely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/?p=797\">a nephew<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All this was in lead up to me moving. \u00a0For those who do not already know, I have moved to Nashville for a few months. \u00a0Two of my advisers from Princeton took jobs at Vanderbilt over the last couple of years, so I decided to spend some time down south before returning to Princeton for the summer. \u00a0 I have a desk in the department, and I am renting a room in two bedroom house about a mile from campus. \u00a0I haven&#8217;t explored the city very much yet, as work has been the main focus (rightly or wrongly). \u00a0As I am here longer, I am sure I will stumble upon new things, but I need to do a better job leaving the office.<\/p>\n<p>The people here are quite nice, and it is interesting to see the norms of another department. \u00a0(For example in talks, Princetonians are more aggressive with their questions <em>during<\/em> the talk&#8230;Vanderbilt folk are much more assertive hand raisers) \u00a0It additionally is fun to have Josh and Larry (advisers) down the hall. \u00a0It, however, would also be nice (and make life simpler) to have Nolan (adviser at Princeton) around too. \u00a0Fortunately people have been understanding of the situation and move. \u00a0As much as people sometimes gripe about Princeton, I think I like it more than most. \u00a0 Whether it be friends, professors, or dogs at Princeton, I miss em.<\/p>\n<p>I do owe thanks to many people for putting up with \/ helping me in the last couple of months. \u00a0In particular, Deborah and Scott get shout outs for many things from providing me a place to sleep, helping me move, drive, and just being good friends.<\/p>\n<p>The funny thing is my Dad was born in Jersey and had little reason to go back until I went to Princeton. \u00a0My mom, meanwhile, was born in Nashville, and, well, here I am.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two months ago I was in St. Louis&#8230;then Milwaukee, then Princeton, then Pittsburgh, then Princeton, then New Orleans, then Nashville, then Milwaukee, then Princeton, then Nashville, then Houston, and back to Nashville. \u00a0DC and Durham were also supposed to be on that list, but car troubles prevented that. \u00a0I could go into extensive detail about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":826,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}