I have to say that I have been welcomed very well into the environment here. One Friday I was invited to attend the Geosciences Department Alumni dinner, and rom there was included in a wedding reception. They have even made professional cards for me. My office is everything that I could want, and much more space than I have at UMPI. I am pretty much spending all my time on the scope or computer, but have had many interesting conversations when I am out and about.
I am walking the three miles to and from where I am staying and the office, which has provided some opportunities to stop and chat with people. After the football game yesterday I found a guy – Clark – hauling big bags of cans for recycling. There is no bottle deposit law here, so he gets only the value of the aluminum – 40 cents a pound or about 2 cents per can. He makes about $100 off the cans left at the tail-gate parties before the game. That is a lot of cans.
Football here is really big; I think I have gone some into that in a prevous blog. They had a very messy game this weekend. Nebraska was easily the better team but made eight turnovers against an inferior team that could do very little but made no mistakes. There seems to be a pall over the whole city. There must have been a dozen articles about the game in the morning paper.
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