Happy Friday!

The productivity at my new job continues to grow. I am showing all of the 'hallmark' signs of being a full-fledged 'post doc': losing several hours at a time staring at data, running and rerunning analyses for the sake of exploring new ideas, reading articles, writing papers and developing manuscripts. I arrive at the office at about 7:45 a.m. and leave around 4:00 p.m. and all of the hours in between overflow with nerdy-delight.

Weekends in Boston are the time that we are tourists in our new city. However, I have to say, it is very difficult to 'squeeze' everything that we would like to see and do into the weekends. It turns out that 'regular' life came with us (it must have piggy-backed on the roof of the prius!) and we still have to spend weekend and evening time doing laundry, cooking, grocery shopping and, gasp, cleaning. It is unclear to me today why I imagined that we would have so much 'extra' free time after arriving in our city. It turns out that there are still only 24-hours in a day, 7-days in a week out here in Boston.

Nevertheless we have committed to seeing something (anything) new in our city each week. Last week we visited Newbury Street....a ritzy shopping district in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood. It was more than 90 degrees, giving us PLENTY of reason to duck into every charming (read: air conditioned) boutique that we fancied. In addition to ooing and awing at lots of exorbadently priced items, we also found a few FAB-U-LOUS second hand boutiques. But more than anything, it was wonderful to spend an afternoon together doing something that did NOT involve our adjustment.

This weekend it promises to be equally as hot so we may stay close to Myron, our new airconditioner, and visit a few neighborhood venues a little closer to our new home. There is so much to see and do....it would be really helpful if some one would come out and visit...help us see some of these tourist attractions!