After four days in Boston and two in New York, I’m safely back home in Redondo. Luckily for me, the weather was pretty much gorgeous on the east coast, but it’s good to be home. I think the biggest problem with me leaving Southern California isn’t the weather, or the people, or the general anxiety travel can cause. It’s the socks. Really. After having my Reefs surgically grafted to my feet, it was freakin’ weird to have to spend almost an entire week wearing “real” shoes.
Other than that, I had no complaints. Except for the women in Boston. Boston gives Portland a run for its money in terms of “big cities without any attractive people”. And I hung out on Boylston and in Cambridge! Anyway, for those of you scoring at home:
- Total number of cities visited: 2
- Different types of mass transit taken: 5 (The T, the Subway, Greyhound, Taxis and 2 different airlines)
- Number of places visited purporting to be the best pizza in New York (and therefore, you’d figure, the world) 1 (And I’m not gonna lie, Grimaldi’s is the shit)
- Total number of White Castle hamburgers consumed: 0 (so sad!)
- Number of $10 pairs of mall-kiosk sunglasses lost: 1
- Number, in dollars, spent on alcoholic beverages by the MIT graduate biology department for their Halloween party 1500
- [Approximate] Percentage of alcohol at said party imbibed by me, my friend Ed, and a particularly drunk Persian guy with an eye for my friend Ed’s wife: 55%
- Number of times threated with throat-slitting by said intoxicated Persion guy who was thisclose to catching a severe beating by me and some friends: 1
- [Approximate] number of people in the Boston metro area who think they’re hard-asses from Southie: 4 million
- [Approximate] number of people in Boston metro area who live outside Dorchester who actually are hard-asses 10.
- Total number of tones used in performance of Schoenberg’s “Moses and Aron”, as viewed from the Boston Symphony orchestra : 12
- [Approximate] number of times I shook my head and said “this is why god invented scales and modes” during aforementioned performance: 56
- Number of obnoxiously overpriced Boston restaurants visited: 2 (Are tapas the new sushi? Or is sushi the new tapas again? Was I out of the office when all of this happened? I’m confused)
- [Approximate] number of people in the Boston metro area taller than me at 6′4″: 0
So there you have it. The numbers don’t lie!
And in completely un-East Coast trip related news… Number of castmembers of Laguna Beach that I’ve obsessed about and subsequently friend-requested on Myspace: 1.
I really hope she says yes. I’ll keep you posted….
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Reno is the best. // Oct 31, 2006 at 6:29 pm
[Approximate] number of annoying blog entries about said trip?: 1 (oh God, let’s hope there are not more).
PS - Sushi replaced tapas and while tapas are trying to make a comeback, sushi still rules (unless they are Asian-infused tapas, in which case they’re the new-new sushi).
Jeremy // Oct 31, 2006 at 7:16 pm
You missed this “annoying” entry
Reno is the best. // Oct 31, 2006 at 8:14 pm
No, honey. No I did not. I just chose to ignore that one. But way to self promote - directing your ONE reader to another yet-uncommented-on post. (okay, it was commented on, but I refuse to acknowledge RW / RR comments because, well, as a Lacey who lives in Austin, I took quite a beating for that whole you know, Austin Lacey in the RW thing).
I’m pathetic. But we all know that.
melaina // Nov 4, 2006 at 1:34 am
correction: Portland has no attractive men. plenty of attractive women, but the numbers are highly disproportionate and rather depressing.
Boston, i don’t know about, as i have not been there.
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