wedding road trip

Day 29: And Now… a Word from My Sponsor

When we were in Boston, I fulfilled a promise made long ago. No, we didn’t break down and elope. And no, I didn’t move to Canada, as threatened after the 2004 election (I moved to San Francisco instead, which is really another country anyway). Rather, we stopped by the HQ for my employer, Sasaki Associates, in Watertown, Massachusetts. This is the company that kindly allowed me to take a six week sabbatical for our Wedding Road Trip.

The company is located in a Millard Fillmore-era mill on the Charles River, a site so historic that the paper bag was apparently invented there. If only something really useful, like the dirigible, had been created at the site. Sasaki has converted the mill into a LEED-certified office building populated with architects, city planners, and the like.

It was nice to see the people that I work with over email and phone from SF. We didn’t solicit wedding advice from my colleagues. The visit was purely social, with little discussion about clients, the economy, or why my timesheets are late again.