It’s been great getting email and phone calls from old friends. Frank
went out to dinner tonight with some physicists–when he got home he
had 110 new messages. (Mostly not Nigerian viagra offers, because MIT
has a pretty good spam-filter system.)
We’ve heard from former
professors, long-ago babysitters, sixth-grade school friends, plus
several members of the “Princeton Eulers”, a softball team I organized
at the Institute for Advanced Study. And my blog friends have been
generous with their link-love!* Our kids, parents, siblings, etc. are
getting similar deluges of congrats.
If I’d known 15 minutes of
fame would be this much fun, I would have wished harder for it to
arrive. OTOH, if I’d known 15 minutes of fame would be this much work,
I might have decided to hide under the bed.
* Thanks, Adam, JR, Julie, Enoch, Frank, Yvonne, Dervala, Lisa, Judith, Scott, Susan, Peter, Paul, Zoe….