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MIT 150 Festival

JFJ — Sun, 08 May 2011 16:10:10 +0000

MIT is having a big party for its 150th anniversary year. As a part of the grand who-ha there was an awesome arts, science and technology festival – basically all sorts of art and technology installations all over campus. It was pretty darn incredible. The photos below are just a sampling – you really should check out the website. Many installations were interactive, responding to the amount of traffic driving across the Mass Ave bridge, or how many people were sitting on pods, or other motion or activity-based light and movement installations across the institute.

8th Walk For Hunger (& Mug Card Finish!)

JFJ — Sun, 01 May 2011 15:44:52 +0000

We have now walked 160 miles to raise awareness of the hunger issues in our neighborhoods and the funds to support the fight against hunger. We want to send our sincerest thanks for your support this year (and past years) of our efforts. This was our 8th walk with Project Bread and The Walk For Hunger. This year, 42,000 people joined together to raise $3.6 million to provide food for 448 emergency food programs in our cities and towns. The funds will provide a hot meal or a bag of groceries for hungry families next winter.

Thank you for helping us raise over $1,200 in an effort to affect positive and systemic change to prevent hunger. Also the team we started at Baker House has now raised over $30,000 to fight hunger! We are proud.

Project Bread advocates change in our community and, while feeding the hungry now, attempts to implement changes to END hunger for the future. It is an organization we believe in and have chosen to support for the last eight years. We cannot express how grateful we are for your generosity and support in helping us strive for change in our community.

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It was a gorgeous day for a walk this year and we started bright and early so we would be done in time to watch the Celtics game. After we crossed the finish line, we walked another mile back home and back to our pub to watch the game and finish off our mug cards! We figured it was a grand way to celebrate another successful Walk – we our now proud mug owners at our local pub.

Red Sox Game 3 – W v Blue Jays – 9-1

JFJ — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:40:12 +0000

Fiallen Game 3

Our dear friend Bloomer called us up with extra tickets to the Patriots Day afternoon game. We had a great time catching up with him, watching the Sox get another win, spending some time in the sun and then watching some of the Boston Marathon as it runs right past Fenway. We saw some of our old Baker House kids dressed up as the Baker House mascots on the route. Bloomer can see the race from his roof – it’s pretty cool.

Jeannette’s Last Days @ MIT

JFJ — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 02:11:57 +0000

We’re waiting on a group picture from lunch at the Miracle – but here are some pictures collected from Jeannette’s last days in the Essigmann Lab at MIT.

Jeannette & Jerry Wogan

Now with Deyu!

Now with Ann!

Lily & Jeannette

Lily & Nidhi

Jeannette & Kim

Bob & Jeannette & John

Happy Thanksgiving!

JFJ — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 03:01:31 +0000

We had a great Thanksgiving keeping our tradition of joining Pastor John and Suzanne at their house for dinner. (We brought Grandma Brown’s green bean casserole and Mama Judi’s Pumpkin Dessert!) We are thankful for our family and dear friends, health, our happy little life in our cute little apartment, our employment and our freedoms (and our sports teams, too!).

TNKarving at Baker House

JFJ — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 02:51:37 +0000

Tonight we revisited our old haunts and were the guest judges for the annual TNKarving at MIT‘s Baker House. We had a good time catching up with the House Masters and GRTs and talking with students.

Gerald Wogan Lecture – Aflatoxin: The First Fifty Years

JFJ — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:22:08 +0000

Walk For Hunger – Miles 120 to 140

JFJ — Mon, 03 May 2010 03:41:26 +0000

The Walk For Hunger Runs on Dunkin:

Registered and Raring to go:

Cheers icon passed in first mile:

Mile 1 – This was the last correct mile marker:

Citgo icon on the route:

The Walk skirts around Fenway:

Coolidge Corner Style 1:

Coolidge Corner Style 2:

These signs were everywhere all weekend due to the water emergency:

Mile 5 – Someone actually edited this sign:

Chestnut Hill Reservoir:

Mile 9:

Mile 10 – halfway point!!! This was sooo weird. First time in 7 years we saw the markers screwed up:

Party House right before Lunch Stop where they offered us beer last year! Haha!

Lunch at Daly Field with bands and a short rest:

A fancy new boathouse at Daly Field:

Mile 11 – MORE than 1/2 way there:

Mile 13:

Look at the birdie! He sang too!

Josh in the tunnel:

Mile 14 – walking home along the Charles:

Our little platoon walking along the Muddy:

A Mem Drive icon, in reverse:

Doing the whole walk in full gear!

Citgo sign again, from across the river – we’re almost home!

See that Mile 19 sign? Across the road? I think the marker is right – it is not on the walk route though…

The Swan Boats in the Public Garden!

Almost there!

And we made it!!!

We did it! 20 more miles. And you did it! Together, the Fiala friends & family raised $1300 to fight hunger. Thank you so much for rallying together with us in our efforts. And our team raised over $6750!

“The opposite of hungry isn’t full; the opposite of hungry is healthy.” -Ellen Parker

Because of your kindness we made our goal raising $1000 to fight hunger.

As most of you are aware, fighting the hunger problem in America is an effort we have chosen to support every year and one we believe is an important way we can actively participate in bettering our community.

As the state’s leading antihunger organization, Project Bread is dedicated to alleviating, preventing, and ultimately ending hunger in Massachusetts. In addition to organizing the annual Walk for Hunger and supporting emergency food programs statewide, Project Bread also advocates systematic solutions that prevent hunger in children and that provide food to families in everyday settings.

Your donation went a long way!

$20 provides 40 people at a soup kitchen with a bowl of hot soup and a sandwich.
$100 provides a week’s supply of groceries for five families.
$500 allows a community health center to provide immediate food assistance to 25 hungry families. (We each raised $500)
$1000 permits a food pantry to give a week’s supply of groceries to 50 families in need. (The Fiala total goal)

Project Bread fights hunger and advocates change in the community in which we live. It is an organization we believe in and choose to support year after year. We thank you for your support and solidarity in fighting hunger.

To everyone who supports the fight against hunger,

Thank you,
Jeannette and Josh

Finally Summer

JFJ — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:39:21 +0000

Finally good weather. Previously this summer it has either been sweltering madness or downpouring torrential floods. Today is gorgeous. And Friday.

Baker House Packed

JFJ — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:09:53 +0000

And we’re done packing… It’s so sad to see our beloved apartment all empty. But we are also so excited about our new place and our new neighborhood… Not as excited about the amount of cleaning we keep finding to do, and figuring out how much of our stuff will fit! But super excited nonetheless.