My biggest news of 2013: I've followed my love to NYC. Yes, this desert girl has moved to the big apple. I'm a city girl now. Well, I'm working on it.
Last fall, Brian started looking around for post-doctoral positions. He expected to graduate in May of this year (and he did - yay Brian!), and needed to secure the next step in his ultimate goal of becoming a professor at a university. He found Dr. Michael Mirkin http://www.cuny.edu/site/energy/faculty-research/mmirkin.html at CUNY Queens College and was extremely interested in some technique that Dr. Mirkin has developed. It was a departure from what his group at UofA focuses on, and that's a large part of why it was interesting to Brian. Anyway, to make a long story short... he accepted a position, we flew out here in January to find a place to live and here I am. In NYC. Wow!
At this time, I don't expect that I will spend the rest of my life here, but we have an amazing opportunity to spend a couple of years here while Brian gets to learn new and interesting things. I hope to use this blog to record some of the once-in-a-lifetime things that I see and do. Everything is so different here, it will be interesting to look back in two years and see how my point of view has changed.
Oh, and one more thing... I know that when I lived in Tucson, I would read news articles about all kinds of neat things to see and do in NYC. So I need your help my friends and family. When you read of such things, pass it on. Post it to my FB wall or put it in a comment here. Send me a message or I'll get you my email address if you don't already have it. But I need your help. There are about 4 billion things to do in Manhattan, and I actually don't have time to do all of them. So please let me know about the thing that you would do if you had the chance to live here. Then maybe you can visit me and we'll do it again, together.
Wish me luck!
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