trip

(Access note: there is no wireless network on campus. There will be access in one of the classrooms starting Sunday afternoon, I've been told, so that's probably when this will get posted. Sunday morning I buzzed the local Starbucks, but they are (in the employee's words) "in the dark ages" and don't yet have network access.)

The trip to Cincinnati was largely uneventful until I got to the city. I had failed to account for rush hour (I didn't realize that Cincinnati is as large as, or larger than, Pittsburgh, with rush hour spilling onto the interstates). I also made a wrong turn off the exit and it took me a while to figure that out, as I was looking for a T intersection on a road that I had been warned changes names. Oops. When I called the program organizer (yay for cell phones) for instruction, she seemed surprised to hear that I was arriving today (though we had talked about it via email). Fortunately, the dorm manager was around and could let me in once I found my way to campus.

There was one other student in my program here on Friday (Paula), and a woman who is at HUC doing research. (I've heard rumors of a second researcher but haven't seen her.) Almost everyone else arrived Saturday, with a few coming on Sunday. The people I've met so far seem to be very nice folks.

Aside to lefkowitzga: you were right; audio books in the car seem to work fine. I've now heard the first 3/7ths of the third Harry Potter book. There are definitely things that didn't come through in the movie, like the depth of Snape's resentment of Lupin and the whole triple-booked-Hermione thing (which was much more low-key in the movie).