Day 104: vegetables.

I don't have any stats on this, but I have always taken it for granted that Cambridge must be one of the most liberal pockets in the U.S. Other than the Bay Area / the west coast in general... Mass. must rank pretty darn high, right?

Along with recycling ease and access to health care, Massachusetts also does a bang-up job of providing access to non-meat-eater-friendly fare.  Just next door to the location of my new favorite veggie burger is the Middlesex, which apparently serves up yummy stuff at non-lunch hours (I never knew!).  Some sort of dumplings with some pretty delicious greens and a water chestnut or two (love 'em) accompanied our evening's treat tonight -- the last Monday of the month brought Nerd Nite again.  This time, the talks were on immunology (and how the immune system might be programmed to fight cancer) and silk (and, essentially, some thoughts on how it might save the world).

Whoever decided to put that vegetable thing on the menu had an idea that didn't suck.  We had two.

Day 49: Nerdnite!

We left NH early afternoon today after a morning full of cleaning and more antics. E. and I were charged with the duty of retrieving the canoe that had been overturned by Sarah B. the night before, and it was a success. Throughout the morning, people kept finding various reasons to have to get in the lake, and by the time we were about to leave, I'd even gone in again.

One of the best parts of leaving the city is coming back to it.  As D. joked, he couldn't wait for work this week so that he could finally be getting some sleep at night :).  When we got back, I had to work for a bit, and then I invited some folks to join for a calm evening at NerdNite, an amateur-"expert" talk series that can be found in several large-ish U.S. cities (though I have a strong suspicion that the one in Cambridge is one of the best).  I missed the first talk (wasn't too sorry about that, given that it was about brain-eating organisms found in California... well, ok, dopamine-depleting, but still) but made it in plenty of time for talk 2, which was about the evolution of cities.  Actually it was mostly about using space wisely in cities, and learning to work with what you have. I think. She was a little bit all over the place. Beautiful visuals in her slides, though.

NerdNite made it an early night, and lovely city nightcap to a nature-filled weekend.