New Haven is small
We drove up to New Haven early this morning so that Christian could finally see the apartment and be added to the lease. I'm happy to report that he did in fact like the apartment. Our only worry is that it's so much bigger than anything we've had that we won't have enough stuff to fill it with.
When we arrived at the real estate agent's today, she said she had another guy who was also signing and also just had to see the apartment one last time. So we waited around while this guy saw his apartment and we overheard him say to the agent that he was a mathematician. "I'm a mathematician, too!", I said. So he asked whether I was starting at Yale and I said Christian had a postdoc in linguistics and that I was looking for a job in the area. "Linguistics? Do you know Larry Horn?" "Yes, I've met him before," Christian chuckled. I then asked the guy if he was the Gibbs postdoc at Yale and he said, no, that he has an NSF and is coming back to Yale for his final year. He did his PhD at Yale, then spent two years at Harvard, and had spent the last year in France. "We just spent the last two years in France." He had been in Paris, but that got us talking more about our postdoc histories and I mentioned that we moved to France after Berkeley when I got my NSF grant. "Berkeley? Do you know Janak?" "Janak and I had the same advisor!" So I finally got his name, Manish, and we're going to have to hang out once we move to New Haven. What a funny coincidence.
When we arrived at the real estate agent's today, she said she had another guy who was also signing and also just had to see the apartment one last time. So we waited around while this guy saw his apartment and we overheard him say to the agent that he was a mathematician. "I'm a mathematician, too!", I said. So he asked whether I was starting at Yale and I said Christian had a postdoc in linguistics and that I was looking for a job in the area. "Linguistics? Do you know Larry Horn?" "Yes, I've met him before," Christian chuckled. I then asked the guy if he was the Gibbs postdoc at Yale and he said, no, that he has an NSF and is coming back to Yale for his final year. He did his PhD at Yale, then spent two years at Harvard, and had spent the last year in France. "We just spent the last two years in France." He had been in Paris, but that got us talking more about our postdoc histories and I mentioned that we moved to France after Berkeley when I got my NSF grant. "Berkeley? Do you know Janak?" "Janak and I had the same advisor!" So I finally got his name, Manish, and we're going to have to hang out once we move to New Haven. What a funny coincidence.