It’s been a brief, busy week, and it’s hard to believe it’s already Friday. It was crunch time at work to get the calendar done and to the printers, and then I had the added task of getting it all translated to the website. I finally had a chance to put my new computer through […]

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This weekend was one of our last in Boston, even though we don’t move for another two-plus months – that’s what happens when you decide to get married, move, quit your job, and go to school, all in a six-week period. Friday night, I met Josh outside Avalon for the Doves show. The last time […]

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Now that we’re back from Helsinki, it sort of feels like we never left, but while we were there, we had a busy, fun time, filled with academic pomp, excellent meals, and sightseeing. My Flickr photoset tells the story best – my “suit in the morning, tux at night” day, the striking architecture, and the […]

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Sometimes I love the way my mind works: this morning, our parent institution had an all-staff meeting, the kind we rarely get asked to attend, thankfully. Stunned as I was by the unending flow of jargon that was coming from the person leading the meeting, I was going in and out of actually paying attention. […]

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Check out the photos from Finland; more later.

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Aimee and I caught Kathleen Edwards at the Paradise last night, and she put on another great show. We’d seen her there once before, with a significantly smaller audience, after the release of her first album a few years back. This time around, the place was pretty packed (though still no Paradise Guy; I think […]

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The last time we went to my friend Mark’s opening, we liked what we saw, and so did a lot of other people. One of those people liked the painting we liked a little more, or a little more quickly, than we did. By the time I told Mark we’d buy it, it had been […]

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On my way to hang out with Josh at the CBC, I stopped at the Century Bank ATM next to Tommy Doyle’s, and was greeted with not only spoken instructions for using the ATM, but instructions spoken with an English accent, maybe even almost Scottish. Very strange. Please Enter Your Secret Number(86 kb mp3, 0:14)

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The island of Nantucket was our destination this weekend, and we headed to the Cape early Saturday morning to catch the Hy-Line high-speed ferry from Hyannis. The ride was uneventful and quick, just about an hour, and we were met at the dock in Nantucket by Aimee’s friend Meeghan, her husband Sean, and other members […]

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