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My Kind of Town Thu, 15 Jun 2006 19:08:18 +0000

As I write this, I find myself entering the seventh hour of a marathon ten-hour layover at JFK. I flew through Amsterdam last Wednesday to San Francisco, where I spent the week seeing friends, smoothing things over with my girlfriend, and eating burritos. Lots of them. An average of more than one per day. In […]

As I write this, I find myself entering the seventh hour of a marathon ten-hour layover at JFK. I flew through Amsterdam last Wednesday to San Francisco, where I spent the week seeing friends, smoothing things over with my girlfriend, and eating burritos. Lots of them. An average of more than one per day. In fact, sitting here in the JFK business lounge, I just polished off the last one of the week, a pork supreme burrito from my favorite burrito joint in California, Tacos Grullense. In between the epic span of burrito consumption, I managed to fit in meals at all of the SF greasy spoons I had missed so much, such as In-n-Out Burger, Brother in Law’s BBQ (recently rechristened Lilly’s BBQ with a corresponding price hike, but still delicious), and Pizza Orgasmica. I managed to see most of my friends, catch a devastating Sox loss to the Twins at the best Sox bar in SF, and even decide the future of my life.

As it turns out, one problem with having a lot of things you want to do in life is that some of them are mutually exclusive. Going home to Boston and MIT in the fall became one such thing when I came off the waitlist at Northwestern’s JD/MBA program, and after a lot of reflection, I’ve decided it’s too good an opportunity to pass up, so I’ll be calling the Windy City home for the next three years.

Overall, it was great to see San Francisco one last time, but it was definitely a visit tinged with sadness. When I left in March, the fact that I was leaving a great city was overshadowed by the uncertainty of what awaited me in France. At this point, while I’m fired up to get back for this weekend’s games against Toulouse, I sort of know what to expect. I’m settled and comfortable in France, and so it’s not as much of a distraction from how much I’ll miss San Francisco.

I’m about to run out of this airport lounge to catch my flight back to France, but I wanted to leave one last message in this very utilitarian update post. Consider it a State of the Blog address, which is to say that in my humple opinion, it just hasn’t been very good lately. Fact is, I’ve been distracted, first by the CFA exam, then by the hassles of trying to find an apartment, and finally by a shattered nose and impromptu trip back to San Francisco. It’s turned, more recently, into a joyless regurgitation of each weekend’s games, and that’s not what it’s supposed to be about. So consider this a promise to readers that posting frequency and quality will be increasing over the next few weeks. We’ll then have a four week layoff without games, during which I’ll still be posting, before our games on July 23rd, followed by another three weeks off before the regular season ends and the playoffs begin. More on all that later.

Cheers,

Ev

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