Where does Genevieve work?

Picture of Tuck Hall

I work for the Center for Digital Strategies, a research center at the Tuck School of Business which focuses on enabling business strategy through the application of IT. We look at impact of technology on all aspects of management and strategy, including supply chain, marketing, and product development. We address issues throughout the extended enterprise, including globalization, organizational change, and information security. We work mainly with CIOs (chief information officers) and (chief information security officers), and academics in operations and strategy.


Picture of Genevieve at her office, note the new funky glasses from SEE

As the Research and Marketing Associate, I help manage and create the editorial content of the center. I oversee the center's website, updating its pages, its layouts, and stories. I produce Radio Tuck, the center's podcast, scheduling interviews with visiting executives, recording/editing/uploading the interviews to the website and updating iTunes. In addition, I work with Tuck's public relations office to find opportunities where center faculty can lend their expertise, e.g., news story about IT or security. I also write and coordinate center brochures, catalogs, etc.


Aerial view of the Dartmouth Green, sort of like a smaller, green Quad

My office is in Woodbury Hall. Woodbury was converted from living space to offices in 2001. It is now home to Tuck's five research centers, visiting scholars, faculty, and administrative assistants. Woodbury comprises the east wing of the courtyard located on Tuck Circle.

Tuck is just west of the Dartmouth Green. Although downtown Hanover is less than a 10-minute walk away, I rarely take the time to stroll over to the shops and restaurants, unless I'm meeting someone there for lunch. Still, sometimes it is good to get away from the office, to enjoy the Green.

How we pass the time

Roger and his new obsession, the M Coupe

Here are some happy memories as we bide our time until the Red Sox start winning again.

These pictures were actually taken that day we tackled Route 17. After driving to Sugarbush, we made our way to Burlington and just happened to pass by a BMW dealership. We pulled into the lot to look at their selection.


Roger on the phone with John Kim ... or is it a BMW sales rep?


One more look at the pretty car

Second Saturday in a row

Roger standing near our seats before the game.

A sunny Saturday afternoon in August, where were Roger and Genevieve? Why, Fenway Park, of course! Roger somehow managed to get tickets to Game 3 of the Yankees-Red Sox series and we found ourselves back in Boston, for the second Saturday in a row.

Not only were they Yankees-Red Sox tickets, which meant a hefty price (don't ask how many times above face value), but they were lower bleacher seats, right behind the bullpens!


To give you a better sense of seating at the park, above is a picture of the bleachers section behind centerfield.

Our usual seats are upper bleacher, meaning right below that John Hancock sign, usually in the shadows. These tickets were third row, lower bleacher, which is right around where the Delta sign is. Although the tickets read third row, we were actually in the second row, as there wasn't a first row!

Yes, the seats were pretty awesome - we got to see Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling up close. Unfortunately, the game was not. Despite a great 3-run home run by Manny to tie it up in the middle innings, the Red Sox bullpen failed us again and we couldn't get runs, as the Yankees took the win, 13-5.

After the game, we drove back to Porter Exchange and had dinner at Sapporo Ramen, one of the Japanese mini-restaurants in the mini-mall. Yummy stuff to ease the heartbreak from the loss. I had a clear broth soup, which was tasty and not too strong, although the noodles were only ordinary-tasting.


To end things on a happier note here's a picture from last week of David Ortiz at bat, happier times.

Late summer game, part 2

Amelia's Trattoria near Kendall Square Cinema

The above is a picture of Amelia's Trattoria, a really great little one-room Italian place in Cambridge. It kind of reminded me of Monica's in the North End (without the cute cartoony nun). Amelia's serves up really good hand-cut pasta. I had a parpadelle with mushrooms and truffle oil. Yum-mee!

Our second day in Boston/Cambridge started out with brunch at Sidney's Grille at the Hotel@MIT. Roger's breakfast buffet was free, because they had checked him in the day before as some other Asian guy.

We checked out and decided to spend more time in the squares before heading home. We first went up to the Porter Exchange to look for sunglasses and bike-related stuff. At City Sports, Roger picked up a nice pair of tortoiseshell sunglasses and I got a cute Puma heritage cap in lime green and navy.

We then drove back down to Harvard Square. Roger loves Harvard Square! First, we went to the Tannery. I love these shoes by Earth and Sofft. Then we went to the bookstore for some serious spine-browsing.

At three, we packed up and headed home. A nice weekend overall!

Late summer game, part 1

Roger and I went to our second Boston Red Sox home game this season. This one was against the Baltimore Orioles. Our weekend fun began earlier than we thought. We hadn't planned to leave Vermont until around lunch time, thinking we had tickets to a night game. But when we checked the website, we realized the game started at 1:15!

So we hustled our stuff into the car and made a mad dash to Boston. Fortunately, traffic wasn't very heavy and we knew exactly where we wanted to park. (It's the cheapest place to park in the Back Bay and only $12 all day with Red Sox ticket stubs!) When we got there, it was the top of the first and the O's had a base hit.

It was a beautiful day! Lots of sun and few clouds, good day for a day game indeed.

The Sox were down through the fifth inning before we had a 4-run sixth, finally taking the lead. We finally won it in the tenth. Manny extended his hit streak with a single and Gabe Kapler ran from second on an error for the win.

After the game, we walked down Yawkey Way and eventually over to Newbury Street. We managed to squeeze in some eyeglass shopping time at my favorite spectacle store, SEE. (I had bought my last pair of eyeglasses from one of their stores in Ann Arbor.) Roger helped me pick out a nice semi-rimless pair, plastic frame along the top in a warm tortoiseshell color. Nerdy cute! I get them in 10 days.

We drove to the Hotel@MIT (we had booked a room because we thought we had a night game). Later we walked over to Kendall Square to catch "Little Miss Sunshine" - a very cool movie. And then closed the evening with two pints of UFO Hefeweizen at the MIT-cool Miracle of Science Bar.

Where does Roger work?

One of the cath labs at DHMC

Let's play a game called "Know Your Blogger". Roger, although he does not actually compose entries for this blog, is a constant source of inspiration for many of the subjects addressed here (e.g., baseball, travel, movies, food). Roger just began the third year of his cardiology fellowship at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC), and is spending this month in the Cath Lab.

Below is a picture of Roger in the middle of an intense cath procedure.


You can learn more about the cardiology program here. Don't worry, Roger! We'll have an entry on "Where does Genevieve work?" soon.

Movie preview sites

Jeremy's recommended movie preview sites:

www.superherohype.com
www.lovehkfilm.com
www.monkeypeaches.com
www.kfccinema.com
www.kaijushakedown.com
www.midnighteye.com

Coffee break

It's almost 3 o'clock and I'm sitting here still sipping on my double skim latte with cinnamon on top from the Dirt Cowboy Cafe. It's from this morning! Gasp! One of the editors at the ABA used to make fun of my friend Holly, another editor, for nursing her espresso all day - think of the milk! he'd say. I know ... but I can't help it.

I really shouldn't even get a double, but I can't pass up on the great deal: when you order a double espresso-anything, you get a muffin or scone for free. Not that I ate the scone or anything, it's still in my messenger bag. I'll probably freeze it for this weekend.

Besides, downing the coffee right before I head out to gym always makes my workout go a little faster. Of course, this probably means I'm artificially elevating my heartbeat and not truly getting the most out of the workout.

But I digress ... this was supposed to be a entry about coffee and how I was reminiscing about all the cool coffee/cafe places I used to hang out in in Chicago.

Like ...

Julius Meinl near Southport
Cafe Intelligentsia in Lakeview
Letizia's Bakery in Wicker Park
Red Hen on Diversey
Pierrot Gourmet off Michigan Ave (croissants to die for!)
L'Appetito on the other side of Michigan, underneath the Hancock tower
Torrefazione Italia in the Playboy Building, when the ABA was located on the lake
(Now I can't remember where we used to go for coffee after the ABA moved over to the river! I can totally picture taking the #22 down Clark Street and getting off near the 7-Eleven, but then where did I go for coffee? ABP? Was there a coffee place in our building? Have to think about this one!)

It was so much easier to eat pastries when you spent most of your time walking from place to place and burning off all those calories!

Twigs!

Twigs, a cute new bakery/bistro in Enfield

Roger was on call Sunday, so I decided to do some post-church exploring down 89. I had heard about a new bakery in Enfield from the Upper Valley Life magazine. I hadn't had a pastry for breakfast in a long time - I was trying to cut down on butterfat - so I thought I'd treat myself to a danish and a latte.

The bakery is right on Main Street in Enfield, and there's a convenient parkling lot, really for the Rails and Trails, right across the street.

Twigs is very nicely decorated with a twig theme. It has just a few tables, but they're very cute, very French cafe-like. The pastry display is gorgeous. They were serving brunch, but I didn't want something too heavy. My danish was very big and my latte came in a nice traditional cafe glass with handle. Well done!

It turns out they are also open for dinner on certain days, and the owners are expanding and opening an Italian restaurant, Stecco, right next door.

From a recent issue of the Enfield Village newsletter:

An exciting feature of Stecco will be the “chef’s table,” a limited-seating space where lucky diners will feast on one special course after another, chosen and prepared by executive chef Russo and served, as Mandell says, “until you tell us to stop.”

Must visit again soon.