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To: [Jamie]
From: [Kit]
Subject: I'm in shock

No, really, I'm in shock.

So, my boss (you know, Dr. Hartstein, the one who's also my supervisor and who got me the job in the lab here, just came to me and told me - he's taken a job at Caltech, and is starting there come September, which I knew, of course, I mean, we all did, and that was too bad, cause he's brilliant, but it's sort of the way things go, only apparently he's been wrangling with the Caltech admissions people, cause when I heard he was going I'd said that it was an incredible school and I'd have loved to go there, only there'd been stuff and all and we'd decided to stay in New York.

But, well, he's just told me that he showed some of my work from last term to the Physics department at Caltech, and got them on his side, and they all but stormed Caltech's admissions office and they've kind of offered me a place in their program, sight unseed, sort of, to start work on a Masters degree and just sort of pick up the credits I still need for the BS on the way.

If I want, he said. If I want to go to Caltech, the greatest science institute in the country.

Only, of course, I don't know that I do want, because, well, we had plans, and you've got the team, and it's only a place for me, and it's Caltech - they do humanities but it's this sort of side ways thing they do to make the geeks and nerds and uber-science brains play better with others. But, at the same time, Pasadena's hardly the middle of nowhere, and there are scads of other schools around, and there's Al and Haroun and the Cali-institute and I don't know, and I'm still kind of hyperventilating about this whole thing because, well, omg my supervisor got me a place at Caltech on the strength of my academics alone without my even freaking applying. Because he thinks I should be there. And he wants to keep working with me. And OMG!

Meeble?
-Kit

Comments

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To: {genius}
From: {so proud}
Subject: That's amazing news!

I think you should totally go for it. Dr. Hartstein seems like a cool guy from the few times I've met him, and clearly he's smart enough to know a good thing when he hires her, and come on, how many times have I heard about Caltech from you? And they want to let you start on your Master's already? You know you want to do it. And they obviously want you to do it. And this kind of chance comes along, y'know, never, only now it has, no way should you waste it.

And don't worry about me. There is Alison and Haroun and the West Coast team, so I can still do that. And it'll be a little trickier setting up with a college out there, but c'mon, now, you remember how I'm mostly sort of boomeranging between English and film and communications? Gee, d'you think maybe they have some film programs in California? :) I'd miss it here, no question--as hard as it is to live here sometimes, there are a lot of great people, and opportunities to make a real difference in the world, but . . . well, when you get right down to it, my dreams are pretty portable. If yours go to Pasadena, all you have to do is say the word and we can start looking for apartments.

You earned this one, Kitty. I'm so proud of you. Watch, you'll have your doctorate before I have my bachelor's. :)

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To: [supportive]
From: [flailing]
Subject: Yep, still flailing.

I've been thinking about it all day, and I'm still flailing. Cause, yeah, you're right, incredible doesn't even begin to cover the opportunity, but, also right, this place is home and California's the other side of the country.

Which, you know, somehow seems to be less of an issue when I remember that my best friend's a teleporter. So if I ever manage to get her to not be mad at me for even considering leaving, would mean we could come back and visit, and she could come visit, and it's not like we'd be going to, like, Japan or something. They still speak English in California (kinda).

ARGH.

And maybe I should mention that I've been searching, and apparently Pasadena realty's in a pretty good shape and there's some nice places that don't cost an arm and a leg...

-Kit

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To: {cute when flailing}
From: {supportive is good}
Subject: Still proud. :)

Your best friend is, in fact, a teleporter, and as cranky as she gets at people here she might even, if you pitch it right, be happy to have a ready-made opportunity to skip off to the other side of the country, lounge around in the sun, and be withering at random people who try to pick her up.

And heh, that's always good, because we don't exactly have an arm and a leg. At least not yet . . .

Y'know, you're really starting to sound like you've made a decision here. :)

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To: [cute when supportive. In fact, always cute]
From: [flailing with focus]
Subject: Re: Still proud. :)

I kind of think I have made a decision, with the proviso that you are totally still allowed to go "NO!" and that's totally fine and yeah. But... Actually. I'm gonna come over. We can talk about it and, if there's talking in this direction, start looking at realtors.

I love you, you know that? Loads.

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To: {see you soon}
From: {thinking celebration possibly in order}
Subject: Re: Still proud. :)

Bah on your proviso, I say. When do you want to tell everyone?

I love you too.