Our Holiday Weekend

This holiday season has been populated by parties, parties, parties. It seems like all our friends are having holiday parties to celebrate this year. We kicked off the holiday party season with a small dinner party a couple of weeks ago. There will be pictures to follow - I just have to snag them off my camera during one of those rare moments I'm at home. While the usual suspects are at most of the parties, you'll be able to distinguish one party from the next based on my tights. I'm in a "tight" phase - you'll see.

During the week last week, we had a BU School of Ed party at Cornwalls in Kenmore Square. Now, I've been a BU student for the past 5.5 years, minus one year away for an actual job (gasp). Over that time, I've met so many school counselors, coaches, teachers, professor, ed policy makers, athletic trainers, psychologists, etc. These people have popped in and out of my life - some sticking around for years, others just for a class or two... Last Tuesday, at the BU School of Ed party, I saw almost all of them. I missed my old school counseling classmates (they're all out in the field working), but I managed to see almost everyone else. It was a great, and kinda surreal, night.

Last Friday night, we had 2 parties planned for the same time (yes, we're that cool), so I turned down the second invitation we received so we could go to the first party. I found out, though, about an hour before the party was planned to start, that it was canceled. So, Brad and I found ourselves in a delightful position of having NO plans ("delightful" is not used sarcastically here). So, we bucked down with a bottle of wine, Season 2 disc 1 of Madmen, and our jammies.

On Saturday night, we had our track team's holiday party at Dan's house in Cambridge. It was great to see people in more than just shorts and sports bras... and a super excuse to wear a different set of tights. We played a fantastic game of trivia (created by Bruce). My team (Team Saiko - which is Japanese for Team Awesome) placed 2nd overall which, I'd like to point out, is higher than Brad's team placed.

On Sunday, Brad and I had a lazzzzzy day. We slept in, lounged around, and played in the snow in the morning. Then, we got all dolled up and hit up Duozo for some sakitinis and sashimi. If Oishii is an "A", Fugakyu is a "B", then Duozo sits at a very VERY solid "A-". I highly recommend it. Following our dinner, we cabbed over to The Opera House to see the Nutcracker, drink champagne, and munch on peanut M&Ms. The show was PHENOMENAL. We capped off the night with a cheese plate and a couple glasses of port at the Ritz's bar. All in all, a perfect day for my purple tights.

Step 2...

Thank you for the MANY MANY well wishes for yesterday's interview at UMass Boston. I didn't realize so many people read the blog - I had 'good luck' coming at me from all angles.

I received notice today that I am one of the finalists for the position, and have a day long interview on January 25th that includes lots more stuff on my end - a research presentation, e-portfolio, etc...

I know what I'm doing over my holiday break.