So, time to catch up on everything from the past month. In mid-July we went to Buffalo for a week to visit Christian's family. This was only the second time we've gotten to see Christian's new niece, who has grown remarkably. We also got to see his aunt and uncle's new house on Lake Erie. Our reaction was similar to everyone else's: we couldn't ( Read more... )

I thought that with my job over and with the CANT conference over, I'd finally get to dive into the pile of backlogged personal math that I've been wanting to do. But basically, the last couple days have been a huge amount of errands and socializing right before Christian's departure for Montreal. I guess I hadn't realized just how many things had ( Read more... )

Had brunch this morning with three of Christian's coworkers, Annie, Nina, and Elpitha. Christian made a great omelet, served with fresh olive bread. We made Oaxacan coffee and peach bellinis and mimosas. Ah, good times.

Jvoight was in town this weekend, swinging through on his way back up to Burlington from a week-long visit at Bucknell. Yes, it's not the most direct route, but there was an algebraic geometry conference here and it was a chance for him to repay our visit a month ago ( Read more... )

I never mentioned what I did on Valentine's Day. Christian was out of town traveling, and I had won tickets to a dance performance at UConn. So sweetorsavory joined me for the performance. We saw Motionhouse, doing their performance, Scattered. Perhaps you can tell from the unimaginative title that the performance didn't have a very well-thought theme. The ( Read more... )

Christian and I headed into NYC today to meet up with my college roommate Brent, who was in town on vacation with his new girlfriend Sook. We had a tasty lunch at a sushi restaurant near Grand Central that Christian and I had once tried before and enjoyed. Once again, we were the only ones in there for more than half our meal, which is weird since ( Read more... )

Had a nice birthday dinner and New Year's party at our apartment last night. We had three guests: Ingrid and Michael, who had been visiting us from Mexico for the past two days, and Christian's work colleague Cai Cai. Christian cooked an excellent three-course meal of cod and bean soup, sauteed sea scallops, and hand-made manicotti in a mushroom ( Read more... )

Christian and I went up to UConn yesterday for a talk by Stephen Flood, a reverse mathematician. The talk was good, but a bit far from my own interests. It was my first time on UConn's campus. It's much, much more rural than I expected. It felt like I was at Penn State or UIdaho. After the talk, Johanna sweetorsavory and us stopped at the creamery for ice cream ( Read more... )

The long weekend has been going well so far. Friday we went out to dinner with Christian's colleague Jelena. Saturday we went on our typical grocery run, but took Cai Cai with us. Then we dropped her off at home so we could all work for a few hours, before she showed up at our apartment in the evening for dinner. We made a delicious dinner, cooked ( Read more... )

So, Rob arrived yesterday evening just a few minutes after I got home from work, which was perfect timing. We caught up by having beers on our roof as the sun set and then headed next door to Pepe's for pizza and then Libby's for cannoli. Then we came back home and watch Airplane! because Rob had never seen it and had only recently seen his first ( Read more... )