A lovely weekend. A bit chilly around the edges, but still nice.
October 19th, 2003Tonight Didi and I were brought by our Freshman Host family to a Chinese restaurant over in Waltham (a good twenty-minute drive from campus). This is one Harvard legacy family – both husband and wife are graduates of the college (the husband also went to graduate school here), his father went to Harvard, her sister too. Her brother-in-law is Dean of graduate students at the medical school, her nephew graduated last year and her niece is currently a junior here… woah.
In the car, it was mentioned that his claim to fame was having invented the game of ultimate frisbee with a group of friends while in high school as an alternative to football. Double woah. Didi commented that they play Ultimate over in Bulgaria as well.
Like I must have mentioned a dozen times previously, over here if you exchange more than five superficial sentences with anyone you’re invariably fascinated, intimidated or, more often than not, both.
One more thing – over dinner it was mentioned that the New York Times did an extensive writeup on the food scene in Singapore. So of course when I got back to my room (fairly overstuffed) I went to look it up. Accurately tasty stuff! Read a copy of the looong article here.
And speaking of articles, my first FM article was finally published. Here’s the link.
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It’s Head Of The Charles weekend – the big, highly-anticipated regatta – I’ll be helping out at the launch/recovery point on the river tomorrow after church.
Goodnight.