Visits

I haven't been posting much in the last two weeks, 'cos we've had two visitors - M came for an interview at Corporation of Current Employment, and V had an interview at University of California.

They were both surprised by how simultaneously hard and easy the interview process seems to be (at least for academic, or quasi-academic jobs). It's easy because people chat to you in your interviews, sometimes you feel you should be trying to get a word in edgewise. You don't get asked a succession of hard questions, or any questions at all. It's hard because it goes on, and on. Both started about 8am - there are no breaks, lunch is part of the process. M was finished by 5pm - well, he wasn't because he had dinner with me, but that hardly counted. V finished with her evening meal at about 9pm, restarted the next morning at 8am, and finally finished at about 4pm.

M and I drove around to some places, so we could take photos of interesting things to show the folks back home. The first photo is of the Hollywood sign, the second is of the beach at Malibu, and the third is a freeway. I'm not sure why we took that photo - it might be because, if you look closely, the sign says Sunset Boulevard.



We didn't actually get out of the car to take any of those photos (as you can see).

V had less time to acclimatise (her interviews started the morning after she arrived), had two days of interviews, and on Saturday (her only full free day), all she wanted to do was shop.

She managed to out-shop S, and we were impressed by her stamina, but that's another blog post. (Or, if you read these in the traditional manner, starting at the top and working down, it's the one you've just read.)