Well, in the ordinary way of things, you'd still be calling me Professor, yes.
But I wasn't all that much older in years when I apprenticed. And rather a lot younger in my sense of self, or my sense of the world than you are.
And Alde was quite insistent I call her Alde and not other more formal things, at least in private, because she felt very strongly that it was a collaboration, it was about becoming peers. Even if she was a great deal older than I was and had vastly more experience and knowledge.
I'm nowhere near what she knew (I mean, yes, I'm good at what I do, and false modesty's a waste of time), but there's rather a lot I couldn't have done this year without you. Some of it's much faster for your work, but some of it - some of the Octoboros work - I don't think I'd ever have managed.
And that's without the other things. Having a reason to keep going, keep getting out of bed. Keeping up with your curiousity. Having you looking at things differently than how I do, and that pushing me to keep questioning and investigating.
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Date: 2015-05-15 01:02 am (UTC)But I wasn't all that much older in years when I apprenticed. And rather a lot younger in my sense of self, or my sense of the world than you are.
And Alde was quite insistent I call her Alde and not other more formal things, at least in private, because she felt very strongly that it was a collaboration, it was about becoming peers. Even if she was a great deal older than I was and had vastly more experience and knowledge.
I'm nowhere near what she knew (I mean, yes, I'm good at what I do, and false modesty's a waste of time), but there's rather a lot I couldn't have done this year without you. Some of it's much faster for your work, but some of it - some of the Octoboros work - I don't think I'd ever have managed.
And that's without the other things. Having a reason to keep going,
keep getting out of bed. Keeping up with your curiousity. Having you looking at things differently than how I do, and that pushing me to keep questioning and investigating.