Happy Third of the Month!

Well, I believe it has been over a year since you last received a greeting on this day. This is not to say that I haven't been voraciously extolling my own virtues in the meanwhile. Far from it. I have been, idiomatically at least, loving myself up one side and down the other for the better part of this year.

In the intervening months I have defended my thesis, published a portion of said thesis in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, moved to Roosevelt Island, and lined up a post-doc at a prestigious university with an infamous lacrosse team. That university is not, unfortunately, in New York City. Which means this September we will be moving our humble little family (me, boy and cat) to the South. I will therefore have to not only learn what it's like to own a car and drive everywhere I want to go, but to like grits and Duke basketball. I think I'm up for the challenge (the grits at least).

So, since this is a day of happiness and joy, I will not dwell on how I will miss the vim and vigor of the Greatest City on Earth, but rather focus on how the streets of North Carolina will presumably not smell like the men's room at Penn Station every time the temperature gets above 73 degrees. I will also focus on how I will have a yard and porch and a grill and not pay 65% of my salary towards rent! Maybe I can afford some new plaid underwear...

Love yourselves. You deserve it.