Tonight’s Friday evening lecture by MIT’s Robert Langer will be my last event here for this visit. Langer is really one of this country’s great bio-engineers. That’s a growth area for George Mason and it will be interesting to see what’s going on at the top of the field.

I’ve noticed that the “chatter” (administratively important emails from my university) has picked up in the last 24 hours. That either means the semester is getting ever closer, or my colleagues are beginning to actively anticipate my return. Probably both.

Meanwhile, in the spirit of the Overheard in New York blog that I read every once in a while, I leave you with this conversation from the local convenience store in the village:

20-something shop clerk (female) to 20-something customer (male) on life in New York City:

“it’s so ironically invasive”

What does that mean?

Jim