Year of Three Graduates
This year began with a dip in the Pacific and then another connection with Meredith. I visited Nick in San Francisco during school break and we went dancing. Being the grooviest of our mutual friends of course she was there as well! Perhaps our vibrations that night were the proverbial flap of a butterfly's wings that trigger a hurricane. Both of our previous relationships came to term that year, under independent circumstances on separate coasts. Namaste.
In the June, I finished graduate school, my brother finished college, and my sister graduated from high school!
After completing my EdM, I worked at the MIT Media Lab. I moved out of the apartment into a storage pod in Somerville and just kicked it all summer with my friends. I wrote Web pages, played ultimate, jammed, and watched the stock market slide. That summer was the most blissful of many in memory as I sailed on the Charles, lived out of a suitcase, and once again visited the Burning Man for our best community gathering yet. We built a huge camp, hosted famous DJs, and truly Meredith and I connected with each other. Feeling young and free, we fell helplessly in love, surrounded by friends and fresh tunes and art.
That fall we decided to tempt fate, and I moved back to California to live with her. I thought of course there would be jobs!