{"id":2034,"date":"2009-01-24T17:12:14","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T17:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2009\/01\/24\/my_first_week.html"},"modified":"2009-01-24T17:12:14","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T17:12:14","slug":"my_first_week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2009\/01\/24\/my_first_week.html","title":{"rendered":"my first week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a crazy week it&#8217;s been. I came back from vacation and landed in Boston just seven days ago (during a winter snow storm, of course). On Monday, I started at <a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/labs\/newengland\/\">Microsoft Research New England<\/a> and have been working my toosh off to get settled (battling network connections, apartment searching, etc.).  I have to admit that I&#8217;m totally overwhelmed. I&#8217;ve interacted with more humans this week than I have in the last year. And I&#8217;m surrounded by brilliant people who do research that I don&#8217;t understand at all. So I&#8217;m on a crash course, trying to grok what my colleagues do and figure out how I fit in and how I can collaborate with them. But I&#8217;m totally up for the challenge, in part because I really really really like the people I work with and our conversations are totally inspiring. Even if they think that I&#8217;m an odd duck.<\/p>\n<p>More writing coming soon.  But first, settling in and finding my feet. Have I told you lately how awesome it is to not be working on my dissertation?  OMG. So much relief.<\/p>\n<p>I hope all of you are well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a crazy week it&#8217;s been. I came back from vacation and landed in Boston just seven days ago (during a winter snow storm, of course). On Monday, I started at Microsoft Research New England and have been working my toosh off to get settled (battling network connections, apartment searching, etc.). I have to admit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}