The weather here has been amazing! Plus I also have a regular job which is great!
I’m temping at MIT for a professor as his assistant in their Media Lab (He invented the trackpoint on keyboards and mice, which is about all I know about his work). He seems really demanding so I’m hoping I’ll be able to keep up with all his work. All of last week was very hectic because it was the Media Lab’s sponsorship week meaning all their sponsors from IBM, Pepsi, etc came in to see what the lab groups have been working on. One of the grad students even asked me why I started last week b/c it was going to be hell. Great impression huh. To top it off, the desk they sat me at was super messy. It had piles of papers everywhere with “To do” post-its on them. I spent most of the week filing. Not the most glamorous work I could work in…but it pays $17/hr which makes me happy. I bike to work everyday – it’s a 15-20 min ride and my route is all along the Charles river (at least until we move to our new place in June). It’s very scenic. I also like to think that I get my exercise in each day from my commute. I only ride on the bikes/walk paths b/c the drivers in Boston are really scary. I try to avoid sharing the roads with any cars if at all possible.
Yesterday, Bryan and I went to Earthfest, a festival held at the Hatch Shell by the Charles River. It was sponsored by Wholefoods, etc. Anyways, they had about 4 bands playing at the open venue. What was really cool about the situation was that Bryan and I had just come back from the beach and saw a ton of people by the river while riding the subway home. We turned around and were really glad that we did. We made it to see James Blunt play for an hour set. Los Lonely Boys played after but we didn’t care too much for their music. The highlight of the event for me besides seeing and hearing James Blunt sing was eating all the free food there. This event had the most free samples I’ve ever had at a festival. There was a booth that was giving away whole containers of organic salad, soap made out of goat’s milk, another booth was giving out whole veggie dogs (Bryan was impressed w/ the veggie dogs). At the end of the day, we were given tubs of cottage cheese to take home b/c the booth was closing up. We must of tried 10 different health/energy drinks that day. The Hatch Shell was also very pretty – lots of grass to lay out on and relax.
Bryan has been really busy working and is enjoying working with our other two apartment-mates (pretty cool guys). Even with work though, he still manages to make time to hang out 🙂 He bought a new 24″ LCD monitor and we’re taking full advantage of it by watching movies. Our apartment-mates are funny – they sleep at 4am and wake up at 1pm. Isn’t that a crazy schedule? But they’re both funny and have been really great about taking us into their place. Bryan just met with Mr. Money Bags today (aka. Paul Graham of Y-Combinator) for a one on one at Paul’s house for the first time. He reported good results and a lot of great ideas, Go Bryan!
Oh yeah, we found a great place in Harvard Square that has good Boba tea! Yay – just like home!
I think we can get use to living in Boston – at least for now.