On being a good son-in-law

Because of my boss has joint appointment in different departments, and also because UA is doing some departmental reorganization to deal with the budget crisis, my appointment here gets transferred around quite a bit for accounting reasons. Within a year, I have been associated with three different departments. Fortunately, my boss told me to stick with the first one on my CV, so I don't appear to be job hopping like crazy.

My latest appointment, starting from this month, is in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. When I found out about this today, I thought it is quite funny. Everyone in Ann's family, with the exception of Ann, is a chemist. By being a postdoc in a chemistry department, I am truly becoming a part of her family, maybe even more so than she does. Ann got so excited and instantly called her parents when I told her about this, and they just couldn't stop laughing.

I wonder how many people out there has this kind of strange experience.

Richard's talk at UGA

Richard gave his talk on protein structures at UGA Chemistry today. The talk was interesting and easy enough for me to understand. Too bad that kids were not there, they should be very excited if they can see their uncle in action.

Richard is here

Richard came from Buffalo, NY to visit us today. We went to Atlanta China Town for lunch and stopped by Stone Mountain Park on the way back. All three kids (and the dog too) are pretty excited to have their uncle here.