California (all the way)

I leave for CA in a few hours, San Diego for SFN and then San Francisco...because why waste the trip across the continent? The last (and only other) time I was in SF was with OriginalMatt, now I'll be there with the JC. I imagine it will be a much swankier trip as the JC picked the hotel and has higher standards than mine (which are only that it have breakfast and a private bathroom). Plus, he makes the big postdoc bucks. Which aren't that big unless one is looking at them through the eyes of a grad student. I also think the reason the JC was so keen on going to SF is that he really wants to move there post-postdoc and is trying to get me to love it. And I do very much enjoy SF, but...it's so far away! Plus, I have a very East Coast personality. Which is a nice way of saying I'm anal and bitchy.

Anyway, the JC will be turning 30 while we're in CA, so if you see him be sure to make fun of him for being hopelessly old.