Thursday, October 23, 2003
Why can't it be 50 degrees in Texas?
I'm back, and I think I may have finished with the exhaustion...
I had a really great trip to Boston. It started with the Red Sox losing the stupid game on Thursday night. Afterward, I finished packing. Victor and I tried to snatch a few winks before leaving, but we couldn't sleep. So we left Austin around 1:30am and drove to Dallas. That part of the trip really sucked. We made it to the airport with only minutes to spare.
We got to Boston around noon. Victor's sister Gabi picked us up. We wandered around town while she was at work. We ate lunch in the Italian section of town... very yummy pasta. Victor showed me some of the touristy stuff, like the Paul Revere statue and the old meeting house. We did some shopping too. I have a newfound love of H&M. Boy oh boy, did I spend some money there. Later that night, the three of us went to eat a very nice meal in Jamaica Plain, where Gabi lives. Afterwards, we played a game with her roommates and their friends.
Saturday we woke late (surprise, surprise) and went shopping again. I met Victor's old friend at Neiman Marcus, and he resisted buying a really fabulous Miu Miu coat. We ate dinner at Radius, which was amazing. And expensive. But amazing. We got back to Gabi's around 1:30am, and there was a full-flown dance party going on in her living room. DJ's and everything. We danced for a bit and then Victor and I passed out.
Sunday. Woke late. Imagine that. We drove to Cambridge to have breakfast (at 4pm) and do some shopping. Always the shopping. We had dinner that night at Matt Murphy's in Brookline, which was a tiny Irish pub. It was effing cold, so I had some beef stew that was delicious. They pour a fantastic pint of Guinness there.
Monday, Victor and I shopped for a bit on Newbury Street, and I got some new KangaROOS. Hooray, new tennis shoes. I also got a cute Puma bag. We then headed over to Cambridge, and he showed me around MIT. He took me to some of the labs he used to spend hours in. Sometimes I forget what a nerd he is! We went to look at Harvard next and stared at the snooty bluebloods. Here's a picture of me there:
We continued shopping around a bit, then went to eat a snack at the Middle East, which is a restaurant/club. We had tickets to see Gorky's Zygotic Mynci there later that night. We actually saw their singer, Euros Childs, walking around the restaurant. We went home and dressed for the show. Gabi had made plans to have dinner with her friend Brian, and we went along. We had some good, cheap sushi, and then headed back to the Middle East for the show. There weren't too many people in the audience. I saw Euros Childs standing near the back during the opening act, so I went over to meet him. I said some stupid stuff as usual, and he probably thought I was a raving lunatic/stalker, but that's ok. They were really good. Oh look, here's a picture:
Tuesday, Victor took me to his old neighborhood in the South End. We had some very good coffee and croissants, then we walked over to his old house. I loved the neighborhood. We had lunch with my friend Nate. We went to college together. He's working in Boston as a lawyer. It was nice catching up with him, since I've kinda lost touch with a lot of my college pals. He took us to a nice (and cheap!) bar for burgers. Victor and I finished up our touristy stuff. We walked around some of the old burying grounds downtown. Here's Victor in the midst of some famous dead people:
We did some more shopping with Gabi when she got off work. We had yummy Indian food for dinner. In the Indian-American newspaper at the restaurant, there was a picture of Sunil Shetty, a Bollywood actor that I met when I was in India. I thought that was funny. Later that night, we picked up Gabi's friend and went to Radius for drinks and dessert. They brought Victor and I some lovely desserts for our 1 1/2 year anniversary. Victor and Gabi are friends with some of the staff there, so we continued drinking with them at another bar after they got off work. Then we headed home, finished packing, and left for the airport at around 4am. Yeah. That part of the trip sucked too. We slept pretty much the whole way home, except the driving home from Dallas part (well, I slept a little bit of that). I then proceeded to sleep about 14 hours.
The trip was great. I spent too much money, but got some great deals on clothes and CD's (hello, Newbury Comics!!). I was exhausted by the end of it, but it was so much fun.
Today, I went back to work for a couple of hours, and then my entire department went to plant trees in a park. Photo ops galore. Backbreaking work, though, as these were not little trees. I had dinner tonight with V, Mark, and Ryan, and we caught up on all of the gossip.
And now you're caught up too.
I'm back, and I think I may have finished with the exhaustion...
I had a really great trip to Boston. It started with the Red Sox losing the stupid game on Thursday night. Afterward, I finished packing. Victor and I tried to snatch a few winks before leaving, but we couldn't sleep. So we left Austin around 1:30am and drove to Dallas. That part of the trip really sucked. We made it to the airport with only minutes to spare.
We got to Boston around noon. Victor's sister Gabi picked us up. We wandered around town while she was at work. We ate lunch in the Italian section of town... very yummy pasta. Victor showed me some of the touristy stuff, like the Paul Revere statue and the old meeting house. We did some shopping too. I have a newfound love of H&M. Boy oh boy, did I spend some money there. Later that night, the three of us went to eat a very nice meal in Jamaica Plain, where Gabi lives. Afterwards, we played a game with her roommates and their friends.
Saturday we woke late (surprise, surprise) and went shopping again. I met Victor's old friend at Neiman Marcus, and he resisted buying a really fabulous Miu Miu coat. We ate dinner at Radius, which was amazing. And expensive. But amazing. We got back to Gabi's around 1:30am, and there was a full-flown dance party going on in her living room. DJ's and everything. We danced for a bit and then Victor and I passed out.
Sunday. Woke late. Imagine that. We drove to Cambridge to have breakfast (at 4pm) and do some shopping. Always the shopping. We had dinner that night at Matt Murphy's in Brookline, which was a tiny Irish pub. It was effing cold, so I had some beef stew that was delicious. They pour a fantastic pint of Guinness there.
Monday, Victor and I shopped for a bit on Newbury Street, and I got some new KangaROOS. Hooray, new tennis shoes. I also got a cute Puma bag. We then headed over to Cambridge, and he showed me around MIT. He took me to some of the labs he used to spend hours in. Sometimes I forget what a nerd he is! We went to look at Harvard next and stared at the snooty bluebloods. Here's a picture of me there:
We continued shopping around a bit, then went to eat a snack at the Middle East, which is a restaurant/club. We had tickets to see Gorky's Zygotic Mynci there later that night. We actually saw their singer, Euros Childs, walking around the restaurant. We went home and dressed for the show. Gabi had made plans to have dinner with her friend Brian, and we went along. We had some good, cheap sushi, and then headed back to the Middle East for the show. There weren't too many people in the audience. I saw Euros Childs standing near the back during the opening act, so I went over to meet him. I said some stupid stuff as usual, and he probably thought I was a raving lunatic/stalker, but that's ok. They were really good. Oh look, here's a picture:
Tuesday, Victor took me to his old neighborhood in the South End. We had some very good coffee and croissants, then we walked over to his old house. I loved the neighborhood. We had lunch with my friend Nate. We went to college together. He's working in Boston as a lawyer. It was nice catching up with him, since I've kinda lost touch with a lot of my college pals. He took us to a nice (and cheap!) bar for burgers. Victor and I finished up our touristy stuff. We walked around some of the old burying grounds downtown. Here's Victor in the midst of some famous dead people:
We did some more shopping with Gabi when she got off work. We had yummy Indian food for dinner. In the Indian-American newspaper at the restaurant, there was a picture of Sunil Shetty, a Bollywood actor that I met when I was in India. I thought that was funny. Later that night, we picked up Gabi's friend and went to Radius for drinks and dessert. They brought Victor and I some lovely desserts for our 1 1/2 year anniversary. Victor and Gabi are friends with some of the staff there, so we continued drinking with them at another bar after they got off work. Then we headed home, finished packing, and left for the airport at around 4am. Yeah. That part of the trip sucked too. We slept pretty much the whole way home, except the driving home from Dallas part (well, I slept a little bit of that). I then proceeded to sleep about 14 hours.
The trip was great. I spent too much money, but got some great deals on clothes and CD's (hello, Newbury Comics!!). I was exhausted by the end of it, but it was so much fun.
Today, I went back to work for a couple of hours, and then my entire department went to plant trees in a park. Photo ops galore. Backbreaking work, though, as these were not little trees. I had dinner tonight with V, Mark, and Ryan, and we caught up on all of the gossip.
And now you're caught up too.
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