I haven't posted in awhile, mainly because I've been busy and haven't had a reason to, but now unfortunately I do.

My old neighborhood in Boston, specifically the apartment I lived in for 3 years before moving down to Brooklyn, was spitting distance from a row of 7 or so restaurants. Very awesome restaurants. One of them home to the best burritos I ( Read more... )

Alex and I are all moved in. It took about 12 hours from when the U-Haul was picked up in Boston until the last box was brought upstairs here in Brooklyn (17' truck + 3rd floor apartment with no elevator = my legs still hurt). The place is finally starting to resemble an apartment instead of some kind of inconvenient place to store boxes. Once the ( Read more... )

Okay, MBTA. Enough is enough. Every day we put up with your "rerouting," lack of scheduling, and general inability to get anyone anywhere on time. Do you really need to try to kill us twice in 24 hours? In the past month, trains have jumped the tracks and hit a car, twice. Yesterday, an electrical fire shut down Park St and Downtown Crossing ( Read more... )

Holy shit! IKEA in Somerville! Cheap, T-accessible Swedish goods! Apparently Good Times Emporium is going bye-bye to make room for it. I know, I know, "evil big box store" and all that jazz... but they're breaking ground this summer ( Read more... )

I'm a prisoner in my own neighborhood! And we haven't even won the game yet...

So after a week of feeling like varying degrees of crap, I'm nearly back to normal. Apart from intermittent coughing I feel fine. The only annoying aftereffect is the congestion, because it means I still have trouble breathing when I sleep. Oh well.

Saturday Alex and I walked around Back Bay a bit more. I took a brief video of the reflection pool ( Read more... )