I LOVE MY JOB!!!

Okay, this is basically to point out that life is wonderful. Even if you spent a lot of years moving around microscopic amounts of liquid from tube to tube and jostling bits of atoms around on a computer screen and got to the point where you realized that you should have just skipped straight to Montana without passing GO! where GO! equals any sort of education past the third grade or maybe college at the latest, this happens. A good three weeks of work. Totally enjoyable, despite the fact that I should have been stressed and rushed getting a grant out the door right out of the gate, it's great. Wow. I never ever ever would have guessed. And Boston is rockin' by socks. Even if the next six years is a total mess, I don't care (cough, right now, cough) because this has been so so so much fun. Yes, that's right, science is FUN! And this photo, this is my neighborhood. I'm four blocks from the monument on Bunker Hill and seven or eight from the USS Constitution.