Appointed in my tastefully simple room at Cascadilla Hall, I now have the long-awaited pleasure of observing the passings and goings in Collegetown (aka 'C-Town') on the street below my dorm window.
Fact: it took me longer to travel the 350 kms between Kitchener, Ontario and Ithaca, New York than it did to cross the thousands of kms to Auckland, New Zealand.
The moral: US Airways = bad news all round. Next time, I drive.
Cornell and its campus are among the most beautiful university locales I have ever visited. The views from Libe Slope certainly rival the antiquarian charms of Oxford and Cambridge. Herstmonceux Castle and its environs recall a Waterhouse landscape - the soft, rolling hills which cradle the Castle offer a fitting counterpart to Cornell's sublime Gorges, rapids, and crags.
I am here, have attended my first seminar session, and am off to an afternoon talk. I can't say I'm rested. Coffee and tea are helping propel me around campus.
A new pic, here of Cascadilla Hall:
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