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If there's anything that makes me want to sta...
June 26, 2004 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
If there's anything that makes me want to stay in the states (and stay a sociologist), it is the impossibility of contacting graduate planning schools successfully. I think mum is tiring of my petulance and surly approach to travel, and it's getting to the point where looking at schools (the proposed point of this week) is ruining our stay here in lovely London. Oh, we've looked at the schools. The buildings, that is. Sometimes we can find maps and find the buildings that planning departments may be in. But little more than that. Up to Cambridge today, which may or may not be a similar disaster. Reading an interesting collection of essays on Conspiracy Theory and the Social Sciences, though. Now that's something I can understand.
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We found each other in the airport, stayed fo...
June 25, 2004 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
We found each other in the airport, stayed for a few billion hours, then found a nice b and b in Bloomsbury, near UCL. all is well.
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Well, I'm in NYC, about to leave for London
June 23, 2004 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
Well, I'm in NYC, about to leave for London. Last night Anna, Anna's brother Noah, his girlfriend, her friend and I went to Shakespeare in the Park in Central PArk- Much Ado About Nothing. A very good showing. This afternoon Anna and I caught a few hours of a lecture series on public spaces for a summer design studio at Columbia. A good warm up for planning lingo. Much love!
I'm starting VISTA training July 11th, then begin work at Williams right away. Things will fall into place once I get back, I'm sure, but I don't have any time between jobs to move... hmm.
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Took the job
June 17, 2004 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
Took the job. Quite an interesting turn, eh?
the job at williams is the coordinator of community service. lots of work, didn't apply for it myself, it just dropped in my lap.
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I do hope the meeting point is the arrivals g...
June 16, 2004 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
I do hope the meeting point is the arrivals gate of the airport. I'm visiting Cambridge, Oxford, London School of Economics, and University College London. I have kept looking for hostels etc. in London, Cambridge, and Oxford, with some success, but am unsure about our schedule, so haven't made arrangements. Tell me when you want to go to the Isle of White so I can make appointments with these darn grad schools. Racheal, Lindsey's grilfriend has a friend that is at grad school in Cambridge, so I'm hopefully going to spend a day there with him as he gives me the run-down.
I'm actually at the Williams Science Library, looking at the school and the town to see if I can do some good here next year. I'm considering taking the job, but have to decide soon, as I'm going to London in a week and training starts July 11th. It wouldn't be easy to leave Anna and my whole fragile, perfect life behind for a new one. But that is what we often must do, to fight the possibilities of a good fight elsewhere.
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I am bleary-eyed from looking at graduate web...
June 15, 2004 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
I am bleary-eyed from looking at graduate websites, trying to dicern the difference between land economy, regeneration, and development planning. each school uses its own lingo, combined with the English institution gibberish. I've emailed all the graduate courses, but they just redirect you to their websites, when what I'd really like is a pamphlet and a nice cup of tea. That's why I'm looking in the U.K. in the first place...
Anyway, I didn't get the 5 college job, but I got a position at Williams College. Housing provided, but an hour away from my most special person, all my friends, and a beautiful pre-war apartment with pictures in all the right places. No decisions made yet.
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I'm having a wonderful birthday! That is, it ...
June 11, 2004 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
I'm having a wonderful birthday! That is, it was so great on Wednesday that I did it again on Thursday, and I don't plan on moving on today. Anna Monas and I are having a joint party on Saturday, and then I suppose I must move into 23 like a trooper. But Anna and I are going out to breakfast this morning, a very special treat for us.
I thought Harry Potter was lovely- the best of the films, fitting for the best of the books.
Good luck, Robbie!
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Anna is at UMass Engineering Lab at the momen...
June 07, 2004 by Sadie in Sadie & Greg
 Anna is at UMass Engineering Lab at the moment, doing whatever environmental engineers to best. Anna Monas, who shares my birthday, is having a joint party with me on the 12th, but for the real day, my group of friends is going out for dinner on AnnaMo's parent's tab. I'm excited to make cakes.
Northampton's 350th anniversary parade was yesterday, with 40 floats, half of which were fife and drum bands, a fourth bagpipe brigades, and the rest daredevil Shriners. Three full hours of gunfire, reinacting, kilts, and the most insane dune buggy mini cart tricks I have ever seen. While technically I do work on sundays, people were too busy watching the spectacle of a spectacles to buy children's books, so we got to watch the action from couches in the window all day.
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