Hi everyone, I'm in berkeley and have been since thursday morning. Alas due to circumstances beyond my knowledge staying with Alec's family and sleeping in his room didn't work out, and so its been fun to stay at the YMCA.

I think we've found an appartment, a few details to work out, but it looks good. 3 Bedrooms $2,100/month, hardwood floors, not terribly large but nice (the outside is pretty ugly, but the inside is really nice) at this location. (The shaded blob to the right of the screen is the campus.)

I also found the place where I want to live as an assistant prof. 3 bedrooms a living room and a kitchen, up in the hills above berkeley, bay view, park accross the street, relatively short walk to campus (but a long walk back cause of really steep hills) in this really nice house with tile floors all for just $1800 a month. The problem being its just so far from everything but the corner of the school with a math dept. it just wouldn't be a good place to be first year grad students with at most one car. If i were married and an assistant prof though, I'd have bought it in a second. Its really cute.

Anyway Alec, where's the report on your job interview.