Hows this for down an back. Less than 24 hours later I’m back at Kennedy air­port wait­ing for my flight. The bap­tism went well and I would have liked to stay longer, but I have many things coming up in Rochester. Includ­ing a job inter­view. And thesis writ­ing. In the mean­time, here’s a pic­ture of my Cousin-​In-​Law Mara and the man of the hour Evan:

One more pic­ture, heres a shot of the back­yard of my family’s house in Ami­tyville includ­ing the canal.

I’m sit­ting at the Jet Blue ter­mi­nal at Kennedy Air­port on Long Island and taking advan­tage of wire­less access here. I’m down on LI for less than 24 hours to attend the bap­tism of my Cousin’s son. Actu­ally, I’ll be play­ing a small role in it as I am hon­ored to be his God­fa­ther. The idea of this is still a bit of a weird con­cept for me.

The reen­try week has been really dif­fi­cult. Rewards and won­der­ful and also stress­ful for a vari­ety of rea­sons. On Monday I’ll begin writing.

As a slight dis­trac­tion, every­one should check out Elina’s Blog. E’s a good Anthro friend, fellow MAPSSter, and new owner of a well trav­eled futon. She’s in Brazil for the summer con­duct­ing some field work on Can­domble and play­ing Capoeria.

I made it here in one peice, though I still have a LOT of unpack­ing to do. More to follow once I get my inter­net sit­u­a­tion sorted out.

Here is most likely the last shot of me work­ing in the Reg taken just a few moments ago. Fraz­zled. Still pack­ing. But done (although trying to solve a number of last minute moving problems).

I’m enjoy­ing my last $1 shake. Never has a choco­late chip shake tasted so bit­ter­sweet. I also gave away my futon today to a friend from the MAPSS pro­gram who will be stay­ing at the U of C to get her PhD in the Anthro depart­ment. Its strange to have it gone as its the first peice of fur­na­ture I owned in my adult life.

Pack­ing is going too slow. But I’m work­ing at it.

I just got two class grades back for this quar­ter (both A’s!!!).

And I had a great meet­ing with Vil­lage Voice and Wired jour­nal­ist and all around good guy Julian Dibble to talk about my thesis. Very useful as he pointed me in a number of good direc­tions. Then I also got to talk with my friend Tina whose work­ing on blogs. I’m really going to miss the many face to face ideation ses­sions I’ve had here. Its been amaz­ing to have so much time to talk about ideas with so many spe­cial­ists. Its some­thing I really want to help to foster where ever I end up working.

As for now, back to packing.

The Chi­nese Med­i­cine paper is finally in. What a deba­cle. I bit off more than I could chew and deliv­ered late (lit­er­ally a week late). Not an osten­ta­tious finish. But on the plus side, I’ve gotten good feed­back on the thesis. And I got a free lunch from the head of the MAPSS pro­gram (per­spec­tive MAPSS stu­dents: know John. love John. Again, his bark > his bite).

Now it’s pack­ing time. Bleh.

My broth­ers come in on Friday. I leave for Rochester Sunday. I have a hell of a lot of pack­ing to do in between. And a couple impor­tant meet­ings in there as well.