Just Popping In

I'm in California for the next couple of days at another pseudo-job interview. It's not technically a job interview, but I've been invited to come give a seminar and people know I'm graduating this academic year and frankly everything right now is a job talk. So here I am. There are actually two people here I'd really love to work with, so I am reading up on them this morning. I obviously cannot sleep this morning.

You might think that I purposefully sought out the sketchiest hotel in the area, but no! It's just an added bonus after the trip I had getting out here. I hate to speak ill of an entire state based on only a few isolated experiences, but I will still do it: California does NOT do a good job with their road signs. It seems that signs reading "Left to Highway X" really mean "Left several blocks up at that street marked with a sign pointing toward the military hanger and then go around the corner to the light and take a right toward the entrance to the highway". I missed my highway twice just trying to leave the airport. Sometimes I think perhaps I don't have the smarts to really get a Ph.D.