Hi Folks,

I just submitted interview notes for two San Diego based TASP finalists, and thought I'd check the blog. I suppose we're no longer in our blogger years, but I think of all of you from time to time.

Amber, my daughter (2 1/2), is doing well. We're in San Diego. About to move to New Bedford. Wife has a tenure track offer with the econ department at UMass, and I guess life just takes you places.  So long sunny (expensive) California.

If any of you are looking for good reads that aren't work related, I suggest Algorithms to Live By, by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths, and Getting to Yes by Fisher, Ury, and Patton. Or anything by George R. R. Martin. I'd read that man's shopping lists if I could get a hold of them.

Also, if you or any of you know needs an attorney, I've started a solo practice (to be more mobile and a better father), and do everything from immigration law to insurance recovery. Land Use and Environmental are still the sweet spots though :D

Good luck to all of you out there and keep in touch!

Adrian

posted by Adrian   [3:46 PM]

So John, what's your new name? How did you name your daughter?

Also, reading your post about your daughter really does put things into perspective. I decided to visit the blog today after getting an email from Ellen, at Telluride, about three applicants here in the Kansas City area who are looking to interview. Looking forward to it:)


2015 is a funny year so far. There were a few precious weeks where you could fill up your gas tank for under $20 thanks to OPEC trying to starve all of the Hydraulic Fracturers in North Dakota, Boston has been lost in the snow, and a congressman in Texas proposed legalizing Mary Jane. Everyone is agitated on the Islamic State in Syria and the Levant beheading people, and Russia is destabilizing Eastern Ukraine.


Would anyone be interested in a Skype or Google meet-up of some sort?

much love-

Adrian

posted by Adrian   [11:54 AM]

Dead or grown-ups now for sure.  

We all applied (and were accepted) more than ten years ago.  But we didn't know yet.  Blogging was still cutting edge technology, and André 3000 wouldn't give us "Hey Yeah!" for 6 more months.

It's 2013, and I have a brilliant and beautiful daughter named Annabelle.  She was born on Halloween of 2008, which makes her just about four years and five months old.  Last month she was accepted to the most competitive and amazing kindergarten program in North Carolina. By age cohort she shouldn't enter kindergarten until in the fall of 2014, but Durham Academy thinks she should start this coming fall instead.

My name isn't even John Owens-Ream anymore.  I legally changed it in 2010.

I have a brilliant and beautiful wife named Nicole.  We own a condo in Durham, along with two dogs, a cat, and an 4-foot iguana.  I promise we're not nearly as grown up as it sounds-- but occasionally I suspect we are.  I'm not sure which I hope to be true.

Nicole and I sort of eloped last year, but we're planning a large regular awesome wedding and I'm inviting every single reasonably remarkable one of you,

because ten years is a long time to grow up, but this blog is still here (and so are we somewhere).

posted by john owens-ream   [11:42 AM]

posted by Tae-Yeoun Keum   [1:32 AM]

One Art
Elizabeth Bishop
The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master. Then practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaster. I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or next-to-last, of three loved houses went. The art of losing isn't hard to master. I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster, some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent. I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster. --Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

posted by Adrian   [7:49 PM]

yes.

posted by Tae-Yeoun Keum   [11:52 PM]

ARE WE ALL DEAD/GROWNUPS?

posted by Kelsey   [9:00 AM]

sorry Bryan, looks like it's going to be easier for you to search for, then friend, a Tae-Yeoun Keum than it is for me to find the right Bryan Lee out of, according to facebook, over 500 search results.

posted by Tae-Yeoun Keum   [9:51 AM]

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