cont'd

tuesday

15.1. the weather is miserable in the morning. i grab coffee from a sketchy vietnamese grocery store on the way in to the morning. when i place my order, he has to bring out, from the back, cream, stirrers and cup holders, which makes me wonder how long it's been since he's actually sold coffee at his establishment.

15.2. nevertheless.

16. i have a nice long talk with dr. larson-prior, who works in wash u. in st louis with marcus raichle (of default-mode network fame). i'm somewhat heartened to hear that the their group has suffered all the practical difficulties of simultaneous eeg-fmri that we did back last year - chief among these silly things like subject discomfort. it's amazing how people who make eeg caps stoutly refuse to consider that human beings are going to be wearing them. we bitch gleefully about engineers, and it's a lot of fun.

17. there were meetings, but i'll skip over those.

18.1. at the end of it all, i have a couple of hours to kill before i have to make my way to the airport.

18.2.1. 3 days before, su-lin says, via e-mail:
take pictures please of any gwtw memorials or associations?

18.2.2 and i reply:
there is a margaret mitchell museum along the shuttle bus route that I can
try to take a picture of as it zips past. I think you know this, but I've
never read gwtw, or watched the movie. i've looked at it once or twice and
always thought: god, this is going to be really boring, and put it back
again.

18.2.3. and su-lin says:
I know. I think you have to be a twelve year old girl, and I suppose you've
never had that experience. is there a peachtree street?

(and there is, and i'm on it, but also half the streets in downtown atlanta are some variation on peachtree street, so this is a bit of a cheat).

18.2.4. and i reply:
But cp has read it and I'm assuming he was never a twelve-year-old girl. (I
hope)

18.2.5. and su-lin says:
no he hasn't, he's seen the movie. I think anyway. in any case only
because of the movie, she sniffs

take a picture of peachtree street please -- lots of action takes place on
peachtree! aunt pitty's house was on peachtree street and scarlet lived
there (: is it the main street, or something? but please do; a picture of
a street sign would be great (: julian under street sign (like tom!) also
can

(and so there is a movie, which su-lin will get shortly).

18.3. the further upshot of this is that i spend the couple of hours in the margaret mitchell house and museum, which is 990 peachtree street, a brick-and-mortar building where mm and john marsh once lived. anna, who has a most gorgeous southern accent, takes us around, and we view such artifacts as the Actual Icebox used by mm, and the Actual Typewriter with which gwtw was written (doubtful).

18.4. mm was apparently sceptical about clark gable being able to play the role of rhett (and it is completely untrue that the part was written for him. for that matter he was extremely nervous about taking the part because it required him to do things like cry, and act).

18.5. at some point i actually have to read this book.

and that's about it. my flight was delayed 3 hours, first because of weather, then because they couldn't find us a pilot, but this was stupid airtran so it's hardly surprising.

two days to fall break!