Today was my last day working at Stanford as I’m moving on to a new job Monday, but I’m kind of sad.  I won’t miss the sometimes monstrous commute, but I met some uber-intelligent, amiable people, who I intend to stay in touch with.  I had a wonderful experience doing something outside of the box, career-wise, and in the process got to experience a “campus life” that I never had going to law school and college at night and during the weekends.  What’s more it was in a very progressive, prestigious and physically gorgeous, world-class locale, that I had previously never ventured into, despite being raised mostly in the Bay Area.

On the radio this morning I heard that the Atherton part of the Bay Area has the highest percentage of educated people, but my neighborhood — Cherryland, part of Hayward which I find to be very charming — has the lowest, at 15% with bachelor degrees. I guess that means I need to stay put to keep our numbers up since I have a doctorate and we need all the help we can get with those numbers.