...Frisco.
The flights were smooth and uneventful.
I went straight to PLoS, met some people I knew from before and others I knew only over e-mail, did the requisite paperwork, got familiarized with my computer and the beginning of getting familiarized with the 'behind the scenes' of the software used by PLoS journals.
My apartment is gorgeous - the owner must be an artist of some kind (probably pottery, as she is spending this month in North Carolina at Pendletonn school) as the place is so artistically and tastefully furnished and decorated.
SF is a very hilly place - I will get fit and develop big leg muscles walking uphill both ways. It took some mountain-climbing this afternoon wondering around the neighborhood and finding a store....
Tomorrow is the first official work day and I'll probably have something to say about it. I also brought the camera and I'll try not to forget to take some pictures everywhere I go.
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but nobody says frisco anymore
Really?
Well, fashions cycle, why not start it all over again ;-)
Congratulations :) I'm sure you'll have a great time learning the ropes.
Ooooh- you're going to annoy some people here if you try to bring 'Frisco' back. Or call it 'SFO'. If you want to fit in, just say 'hella' every other word. Like "People that say 'hella' are hella annoying."
welcome!
SF is the best place i've ever lived...hands down.
And (the other) Brian is right...no one says Frisco. Like a lot of prominent cities, SF is simply known as "the city" when discussed in the Bay Area.
Did you bring a bike? Join Critical Mass for some good fun.
Bora, congratulations!
While you're wandering about in SF in all your "free" time,
you might check out the Pirate Store on Valencia Street:
http://www.826valencia.org/store/
It supports an extremely cool literacy project,
*and* it has excellent pirate stuff.
They even have a "store log" online, to which
they don't post as often as you post to ABATC.
Best wishes from another Eastern-Euro-heritaged,
much-too-long-in-grad-school, newly career-track-
employed* biologist whose last name starts with Z.
(We gotta stick together, you know. There aren't many of us.)
(*Seattle Aquarium! woo-hoo!!!)
I just heard about the pirate store an hour ago! I'll try to make it there. Thank you.
Hey Bora, you will not have a shortage of fun activities here...but check out this fun science group:
http://www.askascientistsf.com/