These Amazing Women!

Trinity College Dublin is some kind of nexus for amazing women. I have met some wonderfully vibrant and centered ladies here. Last night was a going-away celebration for Shelly, one of the ladies. She'll be back in December and, hopefully, will start her PhD in the spring. So it was a fun evening without the emotional turmoil of long-term good-byes.

I had multiple exciting and interesting conversations. I think it's a good sign that I have already found other postgraduates who are succeeding in their research and writing. The postgrad reading room will be really neat. It is like doing the grad program in Santa Cruz when there were six of us in the computer lab until obscene hours and for obscene numbers of consecutive hours in order to finish our papers except there is a lot more space (multiple rooms), no music, and less explosions of conversations about theory. Although there is a lot of smoking outside with the outbursts. And there are more students working there. It's like a not-so-secret society. But you have to have a card to get into the 1937. So it's kinda elite. No undergrads allowed!