- I was in Boston all weekend. First time really walking around in the city. It felt a lot like New York, except that people in Red Sox hats kept popping up everywhere. Where do these people think they are? Is that guy wearing a Patriots shirt? WTF?
- Every time I go to a new vegetarian Asian restaurant, I eat too much. When they say “large platter,” they mean it. But still, nothing is as good as VP2 in New York. No contest, and I’ve tried places in San Jose, San Francisco, and Boston now.
- Um, everyone was friendly in Boston. And it was clean. And I saw fewer homeless people than I see in Santa Cruz. And the subway was efficient.
- Before I left for the weekend, I helped throw together a podcast and an audio-free week-in-photos Soundslides bit at work. It’s exactly the sort of work I’ve been trying to get around to. I’ll have more time for multimedia shortly.
- I’m working on a redesign of this site. Yes, another one. It’s been a few months after all, and I’ve been enjoying developing WordPress blogs for work on top of Chris Pearson’s Cutline theme, so I figured I’d try it out myself. It’s in the works.
- I’m making progress with thesis-related bureaucracy. I’m supposed to turn another draft of my proposal in to my adviser tomorrow. It’s not going to have all the additions done, but it should have all the right language in it. Human subjects paperwork is ready to be re-submitted again. I promise not to ask anyone’s boss for permission to speak to them. Sheesh.
- Speaking of my thesis, Dana Hull of the Merc has a good newspaper blog round-up in the American Journalism Review. If you’re wondering what your paper should be blogging about, how to come up with guidelines, and whether you’re supposed to edit the darn things, then give it a read.
- Am I the only one who saw CNN Headline News this morning showing video of what was clearly not a 757 hitting the Pentagon on 9/11? Um, shouldn’t this be a bigger story? Hoping something about it pops up tomorrow…
- Speaking of airport security, my ID got scanned by the TSA at Logan airport this morning. I’m wondering why I got picked. Beard? Last name? Were they checking every tenth ID? I felt a little weird about it, but mostly I just don’t like handing over my ‘papers’ to a guy in uniform with a machine on his lap. Maybe he knew I was a Yankee fan.
- Yes, I was in Boston and I didn’t call you. I flew in late Friday to meet my wife there for the weekend, spent all day Saturday walking around town, then flew back with her this morning. And I’m exhausted. So cut me some slack.
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4 responses to “I was in Boston all weekend, cut me some slack”
Was your Yankeeness apparent for all to see? Yankitude? Yankidity?
Yeah – Every time I said “How you doin’?” to someone, they looked at me a little sideways. That might have done it.
As a born Yankee (NH), I know there is such a thing as “Yankitude” though I’ve never called it that. But I do sometimes describe myself, in my more independent, anti-authoritarian, “don’t be trying to push me around” moments as a “Damn Yankee.” Usually comes with an unsaid but understood “and proud of it.”
By the way, there’s a simple reason why you see fewer homeless folks in Boston. It’s just too damn cold! If you’re homeless there, you don’t survive very long.
Not sure why Boston is so much cleaner, except I’ve come to the conclusion that Californians, much as I love ’em, are simply pigs. I’ve lived in several other parts of the country, and I’ve never seen any place as littered and as dirty as California’s roadways and cities.
Hey, our time in Boston overlapped. I arrived Dec. 3.