Goodbye to Cat!

As I write this entry, Catalin ("Cat") Turc, applied math postdoc and all-around porn expert, is on a flight to Charlotte to start his new life as a faculty member at UNC Charlotte.

It was really fun having lunch with Cat these last couple of years, and I learned more about German porn than I ever thought I would. (In fact, I'm still trying to forget my lessons and I probably will continue on that course for a long time.) I can only hope that in my time in Oxford, I'll be able to recapture the fun I had at lunch with Cat and Lemming. As Lemming says, every barrel has a bottom, and I can only hope he's right.

On Saturday, Lemming, Cat, Cat's wife, and I went out to Silverlake and Los Feliz for a goodbye dinner/chilling out. I was feeling like crap (see my recent post) for much of that time, but I'm not going to miss Cat's goodbye dinner for a silly thing like that. I am thinking that for my goodbye dinner there should be large portions of meat and then some gaming, and hopefully the goodbye dinner will even be while I'm still around rather than the night after I leave... :)