In fact xf is in Cambridge right now to teach his last class of the semester at Harvard Continuing Ed., which he's been doing largely remotely. Guess what! The class is cancelled and he's in Cambridge for nothing (as if one can actually be in Cambridge for nothing).
*sob* I miss everyone and everything. Today in Pacific Grove it's 50F and cloudless, with the waves banging against the rocks 200 yards away from my door, and I'd trade it for the yucky wet snow in a heartbeat.
*sob* I miss everyone and everything. Today in Pacific Grove it's 50F and cloudless, with the waves banging against the rocks 200 yards away from my door, and I'd trade it for the yucky wet snow in a heartbeat.
I know what y'all mean. For all the bitching I did today and yesterday about the snow, I gotta say I still love big snowstorms. I'm not ungrateful, believe me :-)
J worked in Draper labs for the 4 years we lived in MA. I recognised your picture immediately (at least, I thought I did) and it made me very, very homesick, in a good and yay way. I knew that stretch of road all too well.
And I see that you made an icon of Old Man Mountain. Fabulous!! I still use the icon you made for me all the time. The only reason I'm not using it for this comment is that the icon I *am* using is so much more appropriate.
!! I had no idea! I thought that he was working a postdoc at MIT that whole time.
No, you were right. I guess I should have specified that J worked in the Draper labs *building*. The 6th floor was leased to MIT's astrophysics dept. It was kinda cool (and kinda unsettling) that his card access key would allow him to take the elevator to only the 6th floor and nowhere else. And the stairway doors locked from the stairway-side, so that one could leave to go downstairs (as in case of a fire) but the only access onto the floors was by one of the elevators.
We always wondered what sort of top-seekrit stuff was happening over on the other floors. Spooky.
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Date: 2007-12-13 06:54 pm (UTC)In fact
*sob* I miss everyone and everything. Today in Pacific Grove it's 50F and cloudless, with the waves banging against the rocks 200 yards away from my door, and I'd trade it for the yucky wet snow in a heartbeat.
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Date: 2007-12-13 11:11 pm (UTC)I second this. ;-;
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Date: 2007-12-14 06:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-13 11:04 pm (UTC)Just guessin'.
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Date: 2007-12-14 06:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-14 06:50 pm (UTC)And I see that you made an icon of Old Man Mountain. Fabulous!! I still use the icon you made for me all the time. The only reason I'm not using it for this comment is that the icon I *am* using is so much more appropriate.
::smooch::
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Date: 2007-12-14 08:07 pm (UTC)!! I had no idea! I thought that he was working a postdoc at MIT that whole time.
I totally understand your feelings of homesickness. But I'm glad that this is a place where you're homesick for, if that makes any sense. :-)
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Date: 2007-12-14 08:32 pm (UTC)!! I had no idea! I thought that he was working a postdoc at MIT that whole time.
No, you were right. I guess I should have specified that J worked in the Draper labs *building*. The 6th floor was leased to MIT's astrophysics dept. It was kinda cool (and kinda unsettling) that his card access key would allow him to take the elevator to only the 6th floor and nowhere else. And the stairway doors locked from the stairway-side, so that one could leave to go downstairs (as in case of a fire) but the only access onto the floors was by one of the elevators.
We always wondered what sort of top-seekrit stuff was happening over on the other floors. Spooky.
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Date: 2007-12-14 12:12 am (UTC)(Home after 3.5 hours of driving. Really, I hope you stayed at work.)
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Date: 2007-12-14 01:08 am (UTC)