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State of the Marjorie Address
Jun. 22nd, 2005 03:23 pmSince lots of people have been asking: things are going well here in Pittsburgh. I'm here for a symposium on transcultural communication, involving ... well, I just wrote out the whole list, but it's pretty boring, so I'll just say: all the English-type faculty and staff involved in intercultural communication, both here and in Doha.
I'm learning a TON and, in the process, gaining great respect for our colleagues on this campus. I can imagine us making a lot of changes in response to what we're learning, which is a nice feeling. My only disappointment is that we didn't make these connections with them earlier.
It's also nice just to be in Pittsburgh again. I checked out as many library books as the Carnegie library would let me, largely on Judaism and other topics not easy to find in Qatar. I'm rereading a bunch of my own books on religion that I missed. I'm playing the piano a lot.
Yesterday I went down to Frick Park in the evening, where Leland was playing in an Ultimate Frisbee game. It was really nice just so sit on a LAWN (yay!) under TREES (yay!) and play with a surprisingly outgoing little Sheltie whose family was also watching the game (yay!!!!!!!!!!!!! I miss my puppies). Then I came home and hung out with one of my coworkers for a while, which was really nice as she's spending the summer here in the U.S. so I haven't seen her for a while.
This is quickly degenerating into the worst kind of "What I Did Today" Livejournal post, so I'll stop here before I bore us all to death! Suffice it to say that it's nice being in Pittsburgh, the jet lag is not so bad, I miss Justin, but I'm incredibly glad I was able to come to this conference.
I'm learning a TON and, in the process, gaining great respect for our colleagues on this campus. I can imagine us making a lot of changes in response to what we're learning, which is a nice feeling. My only disappointment is that we didn't make these connections with them earlier.
It's also nice just to be in Pittsburgh again. I checked out as many library books as the Carnegie library would let me, largely on Judaism and other topics not easy to find in Qatar. I'm rereading a bunch of my own books on religion that I missed. I'm playing the piano a lot.
Yesterday I went down to Frick Park in the evening, where Leland was playing in an Ultimate Frisbee game. It was really nice just so sit on a LAWN (yay!) under TREES (yay!) and play with a surprisingly outgoing little Sheltie whose family was also watching the game (yay!!!!!!!!!!!!! I miss my puppies). Then I came home and hung out with one of my coworkers for a while, which was really nice as she's spending the summer here in the U.S. so I haven't seen her for a while.
This is quickly degenerating into the worst kind of "What I Did Today" Livejournal post, so I'll stop here before I bore us all to death! Suffice it to say that it's nice being in Pittsburgh, the jet lag is not so bad, I miss Justin, but I'm incredibly glad I was able to come to this conference.
