These are the beautiful members of the Breault lab who have been so wonderful to me: Dana, Bethany, David, (me), Camilla, Rebecca, Diana.
Today I attended the annual picnic for the Division of Endocrinology, and all I can say is that I thought the one on "The Office" was hyperbolic. I had a wonderful time, and there was delicious food (tender ribs! cornbread! potato salad! red beans and rice! pecan pie!), but it made me laugh out loud to stand around making polite and awkward small talk with fifty pediatricians holding plates of barbecue. I mean, the main thing everyone really has in common is work, and the purpose of the picnic is to talk about anything other than work, so it was entertaining. :-)
After making it all the way home on the T, I decided to turn right back around and hightail it out to the harbor to see an IMAX called "Hubble 3D" and relax on the waterfront. The IMAX was stunning; really good science always brings tears to my eyes. Space is beautiful and unexplained and mindblowing and infinite and I don't think about it half as much as I should. I walked out of the film and onto the long dock that extends into the harbor, stretching out on my back on a bench at the very end and calling two of my very favorite people. I talked and talked as ferries, sailboats, and baby cruise ships floated by, settling down for the night and turning off their lights, and then I closed my phone. It's soul-nourishing to just sit by the ocean in the dark. I thought about my six best lifelong friends and how differently all of our lives have played out. We're total opposites and always have been--photographic negatives of each other in every way--and yet we love each other and mesh so well. It's interesting to see how each one of us is handling her adult life, as we're all "twentysomethings" now. Or at least we will be; I'm the youngest of the bunch and I turn twenty on Saturday.
I love Boston. I will come back here sometime and remember this night.
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