Well, I've been back from Boston for about 24 hours now, and most of that time has been spent in my apartment. I got home around 9:00pm last night and cleaned, then watched some television and part of my also newly purchased (yet also previously viewed) copy of Brokeback Mountain. Today I got up at 11:00am, did my laundry, sweated my brains out in the process, then decided to buckle down and make a new layout. You like?!
Boston was ridiculously fun. It's funny because I got back into New York at Port Authority, had to walk from 8th Avenue to 7th Avenue in Times Square and then get on a hot hot subway back to Brooklyn and already I was missing the quiet side streets and bricked sidewalks of Boston. I also came home to a mostly empty apartment and was instantly sad to have left Tatiana... the weekend was so full of comfort and laughter that I really haven't experienced in too long. I realized that as many friends as I might have in New York, they don't compare to Tati or Alice - I'm somewhat reserved all the time I'm here. I don't think anyone I see on a daily basis here knows the person I am when I'm with my two best friends... which frustrates me because for so long I've thought of myself as pretty brazen and courageous. Yet I've been holding back.
Anyway, here's a recap of the weekend:
Friday night: I arrived in Boston at around 10:30pm and headed out to meet Tati at a bar. Joyful reunion! Then we headed back to her place, ordered Papa John's (mmm GARLIC SAUCE) and watched What Not to Wear and stalked people on Facebook. Then we went to bed... together. MWAHAHA
Saturday: We got brunch at a place called "Our House" (T: We could get $4 omelettes at a place called 'Our House.' K: It's at your house? T: Yes. Give me $4 and I'll make you an omelette.) which features $4 omelettes and tater tots. It was delicious, though the tater tots were missing a bit of their tater filling. (T: They're mostly 'tot') Then I got a manicure while Tati got waxed, I watched a transgendered female work a curling iron, and we headed off to the liquor store to buy Arbor Mist for the party we were attending later. Then we rode two trains and a bus to a waterfront suburb of Boston for a barbecue hosted by Tatiana's boyfriend's co-workers where they had bottomless frozen margaritas, BBQ, shrimp cocktail, and a chocolate fondue fountain, among other tasty delights.
There we learned that the plural of "shrimp" is actually "shrimp" and not "shrimps." However, if one is referencing a family full of short people, the appropriating phrasing would be: "a family of shrimps." Valuable lesson for all.
Later on that night there were fireworks on the river, so Tati and I sat on the seawall, me with a cup of Arbor Mist peach and Tati with two cups of beer and one cup of Arbor Mist cranberry twist, and snuggled in a huge Old Navy fleece. There was a 7-year-old boy sitting next to us who was bending a glow-in-the-dark necklace into different shapes and asking us what they were.
Favorite Seawall Boy Quotes
bends necklace into teardrop shape "What's this?!" Tati and I guess badly a couple times "NO... it's a HOLE!!!"
Tatiana starts singing. I say to him, "Isn't she bad?!?!" "How should I know?! I'm only in the FIRST GRADE!!"
End fireworks, he stands up next to us. Yells. "I'm itching my butt!!"
Whew! What a night. End Saturday.
Sunday: We got delicious bagels for brunch, then headed to Downtown Crossing to do some shopping before heading to Fire & Ice for dinner. Now, I love this place - I go there every time I'm in Boston. Basically you put a whole bunch of ingredients in a bowl and they cook it to order. Except this time, they OVERcooked EVERYTHING and it was generally a bit of an annoyance to watch my meal wilt in the heat of the grill. Well, can't have everything I suppose. Anyway then we headed home, picked up some videos on the way back (HARRY POTTER!!) and sat in Tatiana's living room waiting for her roommate to get a hint, which you read about already.
Monday: Having watched Harry Potter until around 3:00am, then laid awake talking (and by talking I mean impersonating Britney Spears's "country" Southern dimwitted persona... just when you thought we couldn't be geekier) until the sun rose, we woke at around 11:00am a bit groggy, yet ready to get bubble tea at Super 88!! and then grab lunch with Tatiana's boyfriend Trevor before *snif* taking me back to the bus station. I got on the bus at 4:00pm and bid my sad farewell to Beantown once again.
I can't even begin to summarize all of the hilarious things that happened this weekend. There were definitely several moments where our stomachs ACHED from laughing. Here is what I can remember:
K: Did you watch MoonDreamers? (context: 80's kids shows)
T: No, I'm not GAY.
On Sunday, on our way to the T stop at Downtown Crossing, we saw two Asian women (mother and grandmother, I'm assuming) walking along with a tot (not to be confused with "tater ___") wearing nothing but a diaper and little sandals. Now... I know it was a hot day... but a DIAPER?!?! I watched them cross the street before remembering that I had a camera with me, so we spent the next five minutes chasing them with my viewfinder, thwarted time and again by tall pedestrians and police cars. However, we prevailed! Exhibits A, B, and C
At lunch on Monday, there was an item on the menu called Texas Brontosaurus. "Brontosaurus?!" I said. "They have DINOSAURS here?!" "Yes," Trevor said. "You'd think it was impossible but they breed them in captivity here." WHOA!!
Okay, this is a ridiculously long entry, I've been sitting in front of my computer for hours, and House is on.
I will leave you with this ridiculous video, thanks to Lisa.
Ciao!!
