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August 26, 2006
Not Where, but Who You're With
Last week I read a couple of posts by Erin in which she expressed her reservations about leaving for the PhD program at Johns Hopkins. I had absolutely no idea what she was talking about until last night, when these jokers threw us a little going-away party.
The going-away party was exactly as it should have been: just like every Friday dinner party over the course of three years at Bard. Fish and wine and dueling ipods. Also, they gave me a sweet-ass shirt, which I fully intend to rock at my first lab meeting.
I never got all that misty when it was time to leave Bard. Four years there had been about all that I was interested in, and I knew the odds were good that I would be close to Boston this year, and thus close to all of the Bardians I cared most about. Even as I've spent the last couple of months getting excited about a change of coasts, it never occured to me that I might miss anyone here, until Ruth and I were in the car on the way home at 2:30 am.
I'm going to have to work on a way to bring teleconferencing into the realm of Sunday morning pancakes, coffee, and Times crosswords.
Posted by todd at August 26, 2006 5:59 PM
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awwwwww.
Posted by: jurvis at August 27, 2006 3:14 AM
I feel for ya... I felt like a whiny little biotch: "ooooh, poor me, I'm going to JHU". But it's not about where you're going, it's about what you're leaving behind. The good news is that I'm here and I love it... and I'm already making friends. They won't replace the people I had to leave behind, but I think I can be happy here too. :) Good luck with the move.
Posted by: Erin at August 27, 2006 9:27 AM
Is that the blood/pus/tapeworm sauce that we are regarding with such glee?
Posted by: Adrianne at August 27, 2006 8:28 PM
I have no idea. Probably. It was right before you implored me to turn off the flash.
Posted by: todd. at August 27, 2006 9:59 PM
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