For me, anniversaries are bittersweet as they often remind me that life is fleeting. It is also when nostalgia kicks in. The glowing Boston sunshine outside my window brings me back to 189 Buckthorn Way in Menlo Park, California. This is where my good friend Thomas and I first stayed during our 1997 Netscape internship. Those four months were one of the happiest times of my life. We met a great number of inspiring and thoughtful friends. I still remember vividly the couple who lent us their mattress; and how Sandy, who has since become one of my best friends, took us around to cheap, but great, Chinese food. It was also when my burgeoning desire to get into research was encouraged. The unique decorations of cubicles at Netscape were eye-opening, for the first time I saw that computer geeks can also be great artists.
Looking forward 10 years, I wonder how Marei's time in Boston will be remembered by her and by me? Just in case, I will backup some of the most precious memories here:
- Braving the morning cold to get BSO College Card tickets
- Plum Island
- Moving to 172 Central
- Moving to 210 Summer
- Movie Nights at Amit's
- NH Hiking Trips
- DC
- Food, food, and food
5 comments:
Plum Island? The BSL-3 lab?
well, that wasn't the first google entry :)
You're right, but amusingly enough even the website for your Plum Island had to defend itself as "Not the Plum Island of the mystery novel or the Animal Research Laboratory, this Plum Island is a small barrier island just off the extreme northeast coast of Massachusetts and is part of Newbury, Newburyport, Rowley, and Ipswich."
On the other hand, fans of H.P. Lovecraft would find that even more disturbing, as Newburyport was the basis for Innsmouth. I may have to come up and see this Plum Island when I visit you two next. I'll keep my eyes peeled for Deep Ones, though.
Next time you visit Newburyport perhaps I can find out what a hybrid between a badger and the Deep One would look/behave like? :)
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