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[trochee]

Last night late I got back from $SouthBayResearchLab which is collaborating with my research group.

I was wiped out all day because we arrived late Wednesday night, I couldn't sleep well at our (cheap!) motel, and we started at 8am the next morning. But our phone call with $GermanLab went well, and we settled a number of previously-annoying technical details.

We had a lot of engaged technical discussions, and although one or two of the people at the meeting ground their personal axes [that's /ae k s ih z/, not /ae k s iy z/], $Advisor and I kept it pretty pleasant and pretty focused.

$Director liked me a lot, and I'm happy about that. $Advisor told him that I might be moving down to the Bay Area, and he asked me "how long does $Advisor have you, before you graduate?" and when I told him, he said "good, then I'll have you for a while." So it sounds good for the prospects of working at $SouthBayResearchLab while I'm finishing up. Also maybe a job at $SouthBayResearchLab is possible?

In the car back to the airport, $Advisor told me that she thought I was impressively well-prepared, and that I clearly understood and was engaged with the big ideas. "I already knew you were good, but everybody there got to see just how great you are. $Researcher was really impressed." That was really great -- especially because $Advisor is not usually very forthcoming with praise.

I missed imtboo on the trip, even though it was only a day. It was nice to see her and be back. I'm still feeling tired, though, and not quite caught up on sleep. I have a lot to do -- but these are interesting questions that were raised from the trip, and definitely the beginnings of a dissertation. onward!

Comments

[tulip-tree.livejournal.com]

Congrats! It sounds like that went really well. This is the obvious (to people from our lab) $SouthBayResearchLab, right? I worked on a project in collaboration with them for my first couple years and thought it seemed like a great place. I hope it works out for you (and of course I hope D's grad school application works out for her, so that the whole thing can happen!)

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

Thank you !
I should find out if/when my interview is next week !

[trochee.livejournal.com]

yep, definitely that $SouthBayResearchLab. :)

[beckyb.livejournal.com]

I'm not surprised. By any of it. Glad you are safely home.

[eldan.livejournal.com]

Hooray!

[gentlybreathing.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's so great to hear! Affirmation is such a good and lovely thing and it doesn't surprise me to hear that you rock at your work. Well done you :)

[lapartera.livejournal.com]

Even though it is obvious to those of us who know and love you that you would be a great addition to any team, it's even better that they recognized it! And Advisor actually gave praise. Hooray for you!

hooray for South Bay RL

[trombo2.livejournal.com]

Sounds great to be appreciated, especially by a group of colleagues whom you seem to respect. With that in mind, I tried to learn more about SBRL. I didn't get very far in Google with either "South Bay Research Lab" or "SouthBayResearchLab". Are they part of some other institution with a different name?

One interesting Google find, however, was that there's a Japanese blogger who seems to be a language scientist. Check out "Manabu Sassano's Antenna" (http://a.hatena.ne.jp/sassano/) and see if you can appreciate (in Japanese) why this person is copying your blog entries!!

Re: hooray for South Bay RL

[trochee.livejournal.com]

SBRL is a pseudonym; I've confirmed its identity offline with you :)

i went and looked at the Japanese blog and it looks like his website is an aggregator, copying the body of several blogs into one place (probably to make it easier for him to read). Still nice to know that somebody's reading it from Japan!