Weekend road trip, Pt. I

I made the sojourn to the Upper Valley last weekend to spend the long Memorial Day holiday with Ellen. It was a stupendous visit but, as always, all too short. We did manage to make a day trip to Westchester to pick up some furniture for our apartment. Bringing it back and setting it up was a lot of fun. Nothing drives home the fact that the wedding is rapidly approaching quite like seeing our apartment take shape!

It was also nice to see many of my friends who are graduating this year, I'm not going to make it back to New Hampshire before next weekend's commencement ceremony. Many will be sticking around the area next year--be it as grad students, employees or in another capacity--but I'm glad I was able to say goodbye to their undergrad selves.

While I was in town, I learned that The Dartmouth Apologia was named Best Student Publication for 2009-2010. The award could not have gone to a more deserving publication. Congratulations to all of the writers, editors and staff! The Spring 2010 issue, to which I contributed an article, will be posted shortly at the official website.

In other news, I was recently shown this article about the increased health risks of eating bacon, hot dogs and other processed meats. Too bad Ellen is such a terrific bacon cook!