So this post echoes my insane fall of applications post. First of all: probably nobody should ever apply for 11 things like I did. But it was a hell of a good year professionally. Tl;dr: we will be in two places next year. Carrie will be based at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral …
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A week ago today, while in New York, Carrie and I wandered down to see what was happening at #occupywallstreet and then have a look at the 9/11 memorial. It was not a special day in the movement’s history–no failed attempts to take over the Brooklyn Bridge, no major unions marching down to join the …
Yet another overdue entry. Life has a way of being busy even when it’s not. Or rather, we don’t have a ton of unstructured time. Last week, our path takes us a little out of our way to a place called Philz Coffee. It’s a chain, I’m pretty sure. Anyway, we’ve driven by the place …
Today I had my first yoga class ever. You might be asking how it came to be that a person such as me winds up in a yoga class. Convenience is king. A group of people got together to hire a yoga teacher to come up to the Center twice a week. I was assured …
The title says it all. As my mom pointed out to me, American money now has some color variation in different denominations. But looking down into my wallet, all I see is a sea of green. Like those grass lawns that shouldn’t exist in Arizona. Canadian money comes in different colors so that you instantly …
Shortly after our arrival in our new neighborhood, we went out to the car to find this envelope affixed to the windshield: Clearly someone had noticed the Quebec license plates. Inside was the following letter: Welcome to Silicon Valley, where everyone has a startup company and is an entrepreneurial genius.* Which means, of course, that …
