Ben's Farewell

Another party at Pavel's tonight. Pavel is "the other professor" in our bioinformatics group (after my advisor). He has a really nice house on the other side of campus, with wide marble floor salons and high ceilings, large kitchen and nice terrace with pool. In other words, perfect for parties, and tradition is that he throw a party each time a member leaves our group, with lots of wine and catered food. Tonight, Ben was leaving, for Brown University. Ben's a mighty smart guy from MIT who's been doing a post doc with us. He got job offers from virtually everywhere, and he decided to go to Rhode Island, with his wife and brand new tiny little daughter.

The food was excellent, just like we expected. The thing though, when you are invited to a party at your advisor's house, is that people tend to be a little tame and restricted. So, no scandals. And the party had an early end, before eight everyone was rushing to get out before everybody else would ...