Postcard from Ryan and Lisa. June 26, 2006.

Well, after slightly less than a week, the novelty of being back in Rochester, even with the unusually verdant plants, improved weather, extreme cheapness, and lack of traffic (the latter two in noted opposition to California), is wearing off, giving way to, dare I say it, boredom. I have a bad habit of finding myself stuck in an unproductive haze for hours on end. This is not just true in the obvious sense: I accomplish more when I am busy (see Structured Procrastination).

There has been a bit of an exodus. Ryan, Lisa, Bree, Ben, and Kastan from the co-op and Stefanos, Ben, Sarah, and Dan from the physics department have all moved away or gone on vacation, some permanently and some temporarily, some near and some far. I haven't heard anything from Bree yet. The camp where she is working sounds pretty nice.
Currently: Watching X-files in the hotel room. It's a particularly bad episode, too, in which bodies which have been decapitated mysteriously come to life. ("The cadaver exhibited an unusual degree of post-mortem galanic response," explains Scully.)

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You are in the position of being the one who knows more about what's going on than others do. Being the standard bearer carries a lot of responsibility. Walking the thin line that separates knowing what's going on from being clear that you don't have a clue involves connecting with a deep form of humility. It's true that you see more than everyone around you and on a certain level you were put here to guide them. But if you can't admit that you don't have all the answers, it'll weaken things considerably.

Stephanos and I sat in the back of the conference. I read the horoscopes of the Detroit weekly (which is called "Detroit Weekly".. er, actually "Real Detroit Weekly"). This gave me a small amount of amusement--this is, after all, a fancy—albeit very boring—astronomy conference.

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