{"id":3374,"date":"2017-08-14T10:04:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T15:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=3374"},"modified":"2017-08-14T10:04:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T15:04:07","slug":"asrs-in-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2017\/08\/14\/asrs-in-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"ASRS in Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>It’s been 5 years since I left Boston for fellowship, and I finally got a chance to revisit New England for this year’s ASRS annual meeting<\/a>. Melody’s parents helped watch Westley on Friday, so we made it a dinner date at Empress Tavern<\/a> before my red eye flight out. My room was not yet ready when I arrived, so I changed in the hotel<\/A> bathroom to attend the morning session. For lunch, I met up with my friend Leo and his family for some beef noodle soup at Shangri-La<\/a>, where customers still lined up before opening as I had remembered. After attending case presentations and checking into my room, I joined my co-fellows for dinner at Fin Point<\/a>, having begrudgingly abandoned my B&G<\/a> reservation to accommodate an extra person. Sunday brunch with my med school friends at the Cheesecake Factory<\/a> brought back memories of old times when the place was still new and hip. I left room in my stomach so that I could head to Haymarket afterwards for clam chowder and lobster roll at Neptune Oyster<\/a>. The wait was shorter than I expected as a solo diner, and gave me just enough time to pick up some cannolis and eclair from Mike’s Pastry<\/a>. I returned in time to present my poster, then hung out with my college friend Ben for more chowder at Summer Shack<\/a> and late night gelato at the new Eataly<\/a>. I spent my last morning at the exhibitors’ booths, testing the new hypersonic vitrectomy system from B&L<\/a> before checking out of the hotel and heading to Brookline to inspect my old condo. My old pad had seen better days, and I was glad that we were finally able to find a tenant at the last minute. I met up with some fellows for seafood newburg at the one of the oldest restaurants<\/a> in America, picked up fish chowder from Legal Sea Foods<\/a> and soy sauce noodles from Hong Kong Eatery<\/a>, and made use of another airport lounge<\/a> on my way home. The whirlwind conference trip did not contribute much scientifically, but gave me a chance to see how the neighborhoods have changed and took me down memory lane with old friends and good food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been 5 years since I left Boston for fellowship, and I finally got a chance to revisit New England for this year’s ASRS annual meeting. Melody’s parents helped watch Westley on Friday, so we made it a dinner date … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}