"despite the fact that the dollar is so low, we mostly use it for its nutritional value"
so it's raining here in boston, what a bummer. i had thought it was going to be really nice, like yesterday, with the sunny and the no clouds and the high of 75. i had aspirations to go beach sitting! well, maybe i'll still do it today, but it'll probably be rather cold by the water. that's the problem with working parts of the week; there's enough time for it to be nice on the days i'm working and then rainy on the days i don't. tomorrow? beautiful, whilst i'm indoors. i guess today'll be...going to the bpl? going grocery shopping? maybe i'll go to deluca's. i just think that it'll be back-breakingly more expensive than shaws. and i need to get a beach towel or blanket. going to the beach, once it gets warm and i have no obligations.
so living alone? fun. seriously, i like this. no offense to former roommates but as it turns out i'm a loner, hahaha. anyways, yah. it's forcing me to be more responsible, or something. i'm eating...40% better, i clean up after myself, moreso than usual. and i haven't been freaked out at night, withstanding those freakouts due to lack of cable and internet. although this may have something to do with having three locks on the door. those help a lot.
it's already the end of june. the end. of. june. this is awful. i have such a long list of things to get through and my time is running out.
-harborfest/july 4th/boston 375th
-walk the longfellow bridge
-spend a day at harvard
-watch casablanca again
-buy a new blazer/jacket
-see at least two concerts (have not had many prospects on ones that sound good/cheap, except wilco at bu (however to pay $40+ for questionable seats when still so recently did i see them up close for $5...i can't do it); might wait until john comes back to convince him to see something w/ me)
-research internships for the spring (i've found two that look ok but i don't know if they'll still be available then)
-visit lowell (birthplace of jack kerouac! been wanting to go since freshman year! might as well go now! another thing i'd like to convince someone to come along for but i really doubt i'll be able to.)
-visit nantucket (probably not going to happen, considering i didn't realize how far nantucket actually was from boston...it's a long car ride and 1-2 ferry rides. this may have to wait.)
-haircut (my hair is obnoxiously long right now, but i am happy to report the beach blonde stuff heather had given me last summer is working and now it looks like i actually spend time outside.)
i've been reading up a storm lately, too. but, here's the problem. when i'm at work, there's really nothing to do between 11-3 or 5 (you know, after i've read every online news source/blog in existence), depending on when i leave, so i've been getting tons of books to read. whatever i pick has to be something i can pick up and put down repeatedly and not get lost...so things relatively light...so mostly fiction. but i'm running out of good things to read, or at least the good things i know about. i've just been going to the bpl and wandering the fiction section (which is HUGE, by the way, wahahahaha) and trying to pick things that might hold my attention. but lately my wandering trips have proved less and less fruitful. i don't know what else to try exactly and, like i said, the fiction section is so huge i can't really easily pick a few things; when faced with hundreds of books, i can't figure out what i'd like. so i guess this is a plea; if you know of any good fiction (although that's not really a requirement...that it be fiction), now's the time to suggest it. i wanted to do something funny, like tackle war and peace...but that book is bloody huge and i didn't want to lug it home. maybe some other time. as a forewarning, i will not read romance novels. chick lit, maybe. but no danielle steele.
so living alone? fun. seriously, i like this. no offense to former roommates but as it turns out i'm a loner, hahaha. anyways, yah. it's forcing me to be more responsible, or something. i'm eating...40% better, i clean up after myself, moreso than usual. and i haven't been freaked out at night, withstanding those freakouts due to lack of cable and internet. although this may have something to do with having three locks on the door. those help a lot.
it's already the end of june. the end. of. june. this is awful. i have such a long list of things to get through and my time is running out.
-harborfest/july 4th/boston 375th
-walk the longfellow bridge
-spend a day at harvard
-watch casablanca again
-buy a new blazer/jacket
-see at least two concerts (have not had many prospects on ones that sound good/cheap, except wilco at bu (however to pay $40+ for questionable seats when still so recently did i see them up close for $5...i can't do it); might wait until john comes back to convince him to see something w/ me)
-research internships for the spring (i've found two that look ok but i don't know if they'll still be available then)
-visit lowell (birthplace of jack kerouac! been wanting to go since freshman year! might as well go now! another thing i'd like to convince someone to come along for but i really doubt i'll be able to.)
-visit nantucket (probably not going to happen, considering i didn't realize how far nantucket actually was from boston...it's a long car ride and 1-2 ferry rides. this may have to wait.)
-haircut (my hair is obnoxiously long right now, but i am happy to report the beach blonde stuff heather had given me last summer is working and now it looks like i actually spend time outside.)
i've been reading up a storm lately, too. but, here's the problem. when i'm at work, there's really nothing to do between 11-3 or 5 (you know, after i've read every online news source/blog in existence), depending on when i leave, so i've been getting tons of books to read. whatever i pick has to be something i can pick up and put down repeatedly and not get lost...so things relatively light...so mostly fiction. but i'm running out of good things to read, or at least the good things i know about. i've just been going to the bpl and wandering the fiction section (which is HUGE, by the way, wahahahaha) and trying to pick things that might hold my attention. but lately my wandering trips have proved less and less fruitful. i don't know what else to try exactly and, like i said, the fiction section is so huge i can't really easily pick a few things; when faced with hundreds of books, i can't figure out what i'd like. so i guess this is a plea; if you know of any good fiction (although that's not really a requirement...that it be fiction), now's the time to suggest it. i wanted to do something funny, like tackle war and peace...but that book is bloody huge and i didn't want to lug it home. maybe some other time. as a forewarning, i will not read romance novels. chick lit, maybe. but no danielle steele.