Bostonian

I just got off the T in my new home, Boston, and headed straight to Harvard Square. You can learn a lot about a new place just by being inconspicuous, observing people and listening to their conversations. ("Eavesdropping", if you're the sort to put a negative spin on it.) Subways like the T are perfect for that. And just on the short ride here, I heard two older guys talking about XML, saw a young coed studying accounting and a professor-ish type with a meticulously kept chin-strap beard and a baseball hat that read, "Physics". I wanted to hug each one of them and exclaim, "YOU ARE MY PEOPLE!"

I think I'll like it here.

I'm off to pick up the keys to my new apartment. Check back in a few days for my first impressions of Boston.