2005 News

Meryl started her new job at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco in January. She's loving it. Sensible and generous managers, interesting work that looks like it really will help on the path to Ph.D. in economics, and it's also just fun being in San Francisco every day. The current plan is to keep working at the Fed for a while and apply to graduate schools in the winter of 2006. In the meantime, Meryl's using the 40 minute commute to learn to crochet, providing Tim with a plethora of misshapen socks.

We went to visit Meryl's brother Robert in Charleston, SC in March. He's living a crazy life, constantly on the phone about some detail or another for the tennis clubs he's a partner in managing/founding (including elements specific to the south: we heard him arranging to have an alligator removed from one of them). Although he's impatient for the day he'll actually have a regular income, the immersion in real-life business seems to suit him well. Charleston is beautiful, full of genteel houses and art galleries with bits of U.S. history remembered at every corner. The most amazing to us was the first submarine to sink a ship, which was powered by paddling and had to ram the ship to get the explosives inside.

Tim's friend Eric came for a week in June, which was a cause for great celebration as Eric lives in Taiwan and hadn't visited since 2002. Tim, Eric, and Peter spent the week going for hikes around the Bay Area, playing computer games (as was their college habit), and catching up on the endless changes in their lives since they were last together. Eric plans to move back to the U.S. next year, so hopefully they won't have to wait as long for the next reunion.

Other than that, we've mostly been hanging out at home. Tim has nearly finished his satiric novel, which he plans to self-publish initially in the hopes of proving his market before approaching publishers. He has also been working on painting and his idea for a web-based computer game people could play in breaks from work. We'll post links as he gets his projects on the web. Meryl is continuing to keep up the harp, although she isn't working towards any performances at the moment. World of Warcraft is sucking time from both of us, but we figure it's not all that much worse than reading, which is probably most of what we'd do otherwise.

Tim and Meryl's Page of Silliness

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