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I removed my workstation and some of my storage from my office today in preparation for moving across the country to the University of Pittsburgh. I cannot tell you how excited I am, but there is also a substantial amount of bittersweet to this on a personal and professional level.
Not a day has gone by where I am not in tears at Hilari not joining me on this journey. She was so very much looking forward to seeing fireflies for the first time in her life there, and starting a new adventure. When I ran some servers out a couple of weeks ago, I sat on the back patio of the new house and watched fireflies in absolute tears.
I also have friends and colleagues here. We’ve done some amazing science at the University of Utah. I’ll have more to say in the future about some of the reasons why we left, but the potential for moving our science forward at the University of Pittsburgh is compelling. The team is phenomenal there. Leadership is tremendous. And we’ll be able to do our work in a computational environment that will not hold us back.
I’m looking forward to documenting more of that process here, but I posts have been a bit slow lately for <waves arms> many reasons. The amount of work that this has all taken has been incredible. From coordinating and moving a lab, and all it’s personnel to a new institution, colonies, major equipment, computational infrastructure, negotiations, servers, data, agreements, grants, working with various moving companies for lab, equipment, riggers, freezers/refrigerators, home moving companies, etc…etc…etc… I am absolutely exhausted. I’ve said to some folks that what I’d really like is to sit in the dark for a week when all of this move related process is done, and deal with grief that I know I’ve not had a proper chance to address yet.
Until then… Alice the cat and I will be on the road to Pittsburgh soon, but there is still some back and forth to deal with, and a ton of travel through the end of the year.