West of the Moon

Archive for June, 2008

Strange Horizons Fund Drive!

You know what happens when you move cross-country in the middle of the Strange Horizons fund drive?  You forget -entirely- to mention it on your blog.  Horrors!
Strange Horizons has been publishing fabulous science fiction (and related nonfiction) every week since 2000.  I think we do pretty good work, and we’ve helped introduce some of the [...]

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Moving: The overview.

We’re in New York!  Or, well, Matt’s in New York, and I’m in New Jersey, and we’re looking for a place to live.  The majority of our worldly possessions are in big metal boxes being held at a shipping depot somewhere in Brooklyn; the smaller remainder of our stuff made the trip with us, by [...]

Tags: moving

not quite in the home stretch yet.

There’s a deeply unfair thing that happens in the packing process.  As you get towards the end, when you’re more tired and starting to stress about lack of time, it turns out that everything you have left to deal with is annoying.  Odd-sized or over-sized objects that don’t pack well in boxes, large or awkward [...]

More boxes.

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Monday.

At lunch today, I ran into a friend from graduate school.  We haven’t seen each other in more than a year, but as it turns out, we’re both going to be teaching at private high schools next year.  It’s a nice coincidence, and maybe not that surprising, given how much we’ve always agreed about what [...]

in conclusion.

After the post-heatstroke nap, I met up with a couple of old friends, and we spent the whole night walking around Harvard Yard and the river Houses, just talking.
At the end of the night, walking back to my rented dorm room, I passed the Saturday night “gala event” for my class.  Everyone looked like they [...]

Tags: harvard, reunion

a decade isn’t that long.

Random bullets of reunion:

Yesterday, it was in the low fifties and raining.  Today, it was in the high nineties and sunny.  Remind me again why I’m moving back to the east coast?
My friends have the -best- kids.
There may be a selection bias at work, since this afternoon’s event was the “family-friendly” one on the schedule, [...]

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sometimes the answer can surprise you.

So, as promised, my favorite reunion story. (Apologies to those of you who’ve heard this three or four times already.) It happened on Saturday night, the year that I was housing coordinator. Saturday is the best night, for reunion workers. Reunion week starts on Sunday, with very intense last-minute preparation, and [...]

Tags: personal history, reunion

“you have to do it like you did it then.”

In college, I worked part-time at the Radcliffe Alumnae Association.  The RAA, among its many other functions, handled housing and events for Radcliffe reunions and junior reunions.  (”Radcliffe reunions” are for classes who predate the semi-merger of Radcliffe and Harvard classes; “junior reunions” are for any class younger than their 25th reunion.  Conventional wisdom, back [...]

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Pedro!

I’ve said before that this is a mixed household, split between a Mets fan and a Red Sox fan.  We can make common cause in our mutual dislike of the Yankees, though, and also in our love for Pedro Martinez.