A great part of London in better times -- and as it will be again very, very soon!

[morsefan]

Just wanted to post a few pics here of sites very familiar to me from the area of attack in London in better times. Wish I had a few for you from the Russell Square area, but I didn’t have a digital camera available.

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[morsefan]

I met with Ian Fletcher and was very impressed -- I have some work of his for some history of bankruptcy research I'm doing and I'm excited to get do it. I am definitely in a transitional period careerwise -- even more so than when I met him in 2004. I have some hard thinking to do that probably won't happen in the 2005-06 time frame, but I could get VERY creative after that. I'll probably be over there the summer of 2007 for a while, and it might be a time to bite the bullet one way or another. I'm not even sure that program is the right way to go. Prof. Fletcher thought I could get a job in Britain, no problem, now, without the LLM, and his feeling that maybe it really wasn't necessary for me (I respected his candor, because in other ways, he seemed interested in recruiting me and was optimistic about admission chances -- well, of course, I guess; I'd pay -- wink!), but I was less optimistic jobwise from the few tentative feelers I sent out. Would I really then want to live in New York or a big American city, which is what I'd be qualified to do on this side of the pond? That's a very, very, very hard question for me right now, as it always has been. I could see it getting easier, however.

As a practical matter, I would like to wait a little until the anti-American sentiment dies down a bit. I just got an email from a former LJer from Canada who is studying over there, and would be interested in his opinion. I lived in Britain as a kid, and "yes, that is always with us," and if that's all we have right now, that would make a difference to me.