Princeton: better

Dear S,

I think you like reading Tumblr more than getting emails, and hopefully anyone reading my travel blog wants to hear about my travels, so I’ll write to you here. At last I have had a quiet day, in Princeton, staying in A&B’s spare room. 

I think I might just like visiting places that have beds in them for me more than ones that don’t. I saw some bits of Princeton University briefly, but they seemed very bedless. One had comfy chairs, but also a less comfy sense that I might be supposed to be a neuroscientist to be sitting in them.

This place has not only a bed, but excellent company, delicious and proper food with recently alive vegetables in it, epic games of Dominion, and many interesting pictures of memes and my hosts being transformed into dogs made of dogs made of dogs and such. Also a book about Napoleon and dragons that I was instructed to read, and actually did a bit, in a shocking but enjoyable departure from my usual tendencies. Outside there are parking lots and wide roads and lawn and trees, and I thought of you, and also went for a walk to a mall. It was cold, and reminded me of Michigan.

I also recently flew a drone, learned that Philadelphia is between New York and Washington, and became very slightly acquainted with the alien world of very popular YouTube content, in return for the most popular YouTube content declaring its acquaintance with AI risk and Nick Bostrom.

I hope you are doing well. Thanks for phoning me when I write to you panickedly wanting moral support for problems like ‘maintaining composure while walking down street’, even though you are busy masterminding the capture of potential murderers.

Yours,

K

P.S. Also I think I beat Alexander the Great at Civ, though he was handicapped by having to use real civs.