So, today was a day much like any other I’ve had so far in town. But, around 2, we had a meeting of the state and local policy program graduate assistants, and the research staff & faculty around for the summer. During the intros, everyone went over their names, research activities, and areas of expertise. Kim mentioned that she felt underoccupied. Several introductions later, I busted out with a little geek humor, which went over like a lead weight, but, then Frank, one of the research guys, reminded me of something else, specifically, the conference on BRT and value pricing.<\/p>\n
You see, a few days ago, not doing my reading on value pricing, but feeling like I knew what it was all about, I told Lee (the prof I’m supporting, also head of the state and local policy program) that I was feeling underoccupied. He latched onto this and suggested that I help arrange a small conference\/workshop in September or October on the possibility of combining Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and Value Pricing (toll-paying access to HOV lanes), and write a summary paper of the work done in these fields (not much, to date). Yowza! Ask and ye shall receive!<\/p>\n
So, I related the story, with proper timing and emphasis. And got a big chuckle out of everyone present. I later got re-introduced, when Lee arrived from a meeting than ran pretty late, as “the computer guru”. *shrug* <\/p>\n
It felt like the beginnings of the sort of social setting I get into. Casual dialogue, small group of people, intellectual focus. And it broke up. I felt down after that. Adapting isn’t easy. And changing fields like I am isn’t exactly a zero-cost transaction either, but I think it’s being arranged about as easily as it can be. Maybe. *shrug*<\/p>\n I might have enjoyed another summer of slack (the summer So, today was a day much like any other I’ve had so far in town. But, around 2, we had a meeting of the state and local policy program graduate assistants, and the research staff & faculty around for the summer. During the intros, everyone went over their names, research activities, and areas of expertise. … Continue reading “the meeting of the GRA’s”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}