I have spent much of the fall here in the flat part, not the mountains of upstate New York or Marin County where my loved ones are. Mimi and I put up pesto concentrate for the winter, have been going to the farmers' market, out for coffee, and out into the beautiful fall for long walks. I miss Ned, but it is not as bad as I expected. His latest Facebook post announces he is in a relationship with Olivia Ortega; she is a lovely Latina from Brooklyn interested in biotechnology. I hope I get to meet her parents' weekend! I knew it was serious when he wrote me asking for recipes and his new profile photo showed him waving a wooden spoon over a hot stove.... Daniel continues to be happy commuting to Schenectady for his full-time contract with GE Energy and Infrastructure. He and his girlfriend Michelle moved into a better apartment in Saratoga Springs. She is thinking about grad school in neuroscience, but in the delicious meanwhile she is an apprentice chef at a crepe restaurant. Daniel seems to be turning into a foodie.
I have been trying to work, spent most of August working on a draft executive order for a bunch of NGOs that we have submitted to the administration as public comment on the White House Open Government Initiative. September has been all about teaching and chairing a search committee. I have been trying to stay upbeat by going out to music and theatre with friends, our Lotus World Music Festival, a local production of Driving Miss Daisy...but the best thing is I am sitting in on a nighttime course called The History of the Beatles with our award-winning Music Prof. Glen Gass. It is a multimedia miracle.
Hope everyone is okay! What news?
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