Chiming in from Vermont

Hi all,

Good to hear your voices again. I haven't really kept up with Rhino alumni, apart from a quick email from Ray now and then. I wrote to Ranjy to congratulate him on Shine's pregnancy but he never wrote back.

What's up here? lesseeeeee.......

Lucia started kindergarten a couple weeks ago and seems to be digging the scene. She's riding a bike and swimming and we've bought her some skis for the rapidly approaching winter.

Gemma is jabbering and wandering around like a badly trained monkey. I mean, she doesn't fling her pooh at people or masturbate in public, so she's not THAT badly trained, but you know what I mean. You can see photos here.

Helen's loving her job and her research is going well. She got a grant funded this year, which was pretty huge for a first-year fellow, and she's applying for more. Something to do with rats and cervixes (cervices?) and the rest is mad Greek, believe me.

I'm doing "marketing consulting" and I have no idea what that means. I have some local clients who keep me busy at a healthy hourly rate and that's all that matters, right? It's a little of this and a lot of that....project manager for a new website here, content creation for a marketing piece there, etc. One client has even asked me to help them design and have installed some product display shelving in their offices....a strange little project. I'm not really big on interior decoration (insert your favorite homophobe joke here), but we'll figure something out.

I'm also on the board for the March of Dimes here in Vermont, which is taking more and more of my time. FAIR WARNING: everyone I know will eventually be asked to donate some money to the March of Dimes cause (premature babies and associated research).

We've been loving the summer here in Vermont. It's a bit like living in Sweden: the summer's are so short that you appreciate them more and everything seems more highly charged. People wander around congratulating themselves for a lovely day. Everyone seems keen to drop whatever they're doing to rush outside on a nice day and head down to the lake.

come on up for a visit....we're only half an hour from a decent ski hill and an hour from Stowe or Sugarbush....

brian