John Thompson:  

Life Hello all...class of 85! Well, I didn't quite make it all the way through in Moscow, but Moscow still feels like my real highschool class. Madison was fun, but too big to be a class. So, life since Moscow: last two years of highschool in Madison WI, which turned out to be pretty cool after a semester or so of being invisible. There's beautiful lakes in Madison, and the university crowd makes it fun. Then two years of college at Harvard, which was intense and interesting but pretty overwhelming. I got to write a lot for the school paper and made some good friends who I still see regularly. Between sophomore and junior year, I spent a year living in rural Scotland, working odd jobs and being a 20 year old away from home for the first time. It's as beautiful there as in Idaho, and the area where I lived had a landscape a lot like the Palouse. Then another year of college in crowded, claustrophobic, dirty Boston, and then three years of traveling, switching between working 2-3 jobs in Madison and living in beautiful Costa Rica. Came back to Boston to finish school in 93, fell in love, and spent a couple years working at a Very Serious magazine. Left that to work at a Very Relaxed coffee shop for a year. One of my customers was a private investigator. We bonded around having both grown up living all over the place, and I ended up working for him for about 4 years, doing criminal investigations in and around Boston. Very interesting, and my boss was an amazing guy, but it got pretty depressing after awhile. As a break...Expand for more