Everybody wake up

It's been, as you might be able to tell from the lack of blogging, a hectic few weeks. In that time, there have been a multitude of things I have been told to add to my blog, but of course, now that I'm actually here and writing this, I can only remember a couple stories:

I was in NYC about a week and a half ago, doing an NVivo training for a group at Baruch College. On Thursday evening, I was supposed to meet Glen's parents for dinner, so I was walking down Park Avenue South. It was about 5 PM. NYC generally makes me uncomfortable so I was looking around and being hyperaware, like usual, when I glanced behind me and saw, running towards me, a man, stark naked. He was out for a jog, I guess. With absolutely no clothes on. "This must happen all the time in New York," I thought to myself, "I can handle this. I'm a consummate New Yorker." So I didn't double take, I just kept walking. The guy ran on by me, and as I followed in his wake, everyone on their cell phones was saying, "You're never gonna believe what I just saw..." Security guards were on their walkie talkies saying, "No man, I swear! The dude just ran right by here. Naked as the day he was born!!" So I guess that sort of thing doesn't happen in NY so much...

Earlier that week, I was giving a presentation in Boston, and I got to the venue near the Boston Public Gardens with plenty of time to spare, on a beautiful day. I decided to take a lap around the gardens. After walking a bit, I sat down on a bench. A woman pushing a stroller with a little girl came up to the bench next to me and asked the child if that was a good place to have lunch. About ten feet away stood two Canadian geese. The little girl (maybe 4 years old?) waved frantically and yelled "HI TURKEYS!!!" When the woman unbuckled the girl from the stroller, the girl said something about not having seeds (to feed the birds). Then, she started miming throwing seeds to the geese, who, seeing the motion, started frantically looking for what was being thrown, reminding me very much of dogs who are ready to chase a ball when their owner's are teasing them and haven't thrown it yet!