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What a long strange trip it's been
hey! we're in Boston! well, chelmsford. you know.
we had to say goodbye and hug many people in the morning, and then we were off. we stopped at the New England Mobile Book Fair for an hour on the way because uncle-types got us gift certificates. the NEMBF is interesting because they organize most things by publisher rather than by subject or author or whatever. so you have to be pretty specific in your browsing rather than just random most of the time. I found many E.L.Konigsburg books by accident and since I can never find them normally I used my gift certificate to buy them. It was sort of fun to just go through and guess what publishers did what stuff. The thing is, having only an hour was sort of bad... we could have used like half a day there.
We got on the road again and kinda got lost on our way into Boston - we had to drop off Ollie at his friend's house in Cambridge (Eli's parents didn't want us just dropping him off at a T stop for some reason... he's almost 17, I don't see why he'd be in trouble, but whatever), so we had to go into the city to do this. Then we came back out of the city and called Jason to get directions here... except we got confused and got the wrong directions. Then we called again to get the right directions. What a total cellphone moment. But we got here around 6pm, which is good.
We got sushi! whee. with a group of 10 they put us in a tatami thingy. I had yummy sushi. Yummy! Yay!
Then we went to Ben and Tara's house where people were being geeks on the skibo floor. Laurel and Eli and I and Joy and Mark played Taboo for a while, which was actually really fun - I nearly lost it entirely during one round where the word was "iceberg" and the word Titanic was taboo but boat wasn't... I was like "aagh! the thing the dumb boat hit! you know, that stupid dumb boat with the 3 hour movie!" etc. hehe. It was a lot funnier to me than anyone else. I think Taboo is a lot of fun when you simply don't play seriously at all and play more to make people laugh as well as to get words right.
Oh, I gave out Christmas presents and I think they were appreciated. Yay.
So we will go into the city tomorrow and do stuff. Yay city!
I will probably do one of these sum-up-the-year and new-year-resolutions posts eventually, but it might not come until we get back to Amherst in a few days... we'll see.
I probably won't get to update this again for another 24 hours, so Happy New Year's, everyone!
we had to say goodbye and hug many people in the morning, and then we were off. we stopped at the New England Mobile Book Fair for an hour on the way because uncle-types got us gift certificates. the NEMBF is interesting because they organize most things by publisher rather than by subject or author or whatever. so you have to be pretty specific in your browsing rather than just random most of the time. I found many E.L.Konigsburg books by accident and since I can never find them normally I used my gift certificate to buy them. It was sort of fun to just go through and guess what publishers did what stuff. The thing is, having only an hour was sort of bad... we could have used like half a day there.
We got on the road again and kinda got lost on our way into Boston - we had to drop off Ollie at his friend's house in Cambridge (Eli's parents didn't want us just dropping him off at a T stop for some reason... he's almost 17, I don't see why he'd be in trouble, but whatever), so we had to go into the city to do this. Then we came back out of the city and called Jason to get directions here... except we got confused and got the wrong directions. Then we called again to get the right directions. What a total cellphone moment. But we got here around 6pm, which is good.
We got sushi! whee. with a group of 10 they put us in a tatami thingy. I had yummy sushi. Yummy! Yay!
Then we went to Ben and Tara's house where people were being geeks on the skibo floor. Laurel and Eli and I and Joy and Mark played Taboo for a while, which was actually really fun - I nearly lost it entirely during one round where the word was "iceberg" and the word Titanic was taboo but boat wasn't... I was like "aagh! the thing the dumb boat hit! you know, that stupid dumb boat with the 3 hour movie!" etc. hehe. It was a lot funnier to me than anyone else. I think Taboo is a lot of fun when you simply don't play seriously at all and play more to make people laugh as well as to get words right.
Oh, I gave out Christmas presents and I think they were appreciated. Yay.
So we will go into the city tomorrow and do stuff. Yay city!
I will probably do one of these sum-up-the-year and new-year-resolutions posts eventually, but it might not come until we get back to Amherst in a few days... we'll see.
I probably won't get to update this again for another 24 hours, so Happy New Year's, everyone!
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> seriously at all and play more to make people laugh as
> well as to get words right.
Reminds me of one summer night, I was playing Taboo and my description was: "Umm... uhh... this is the only guy that goes to Wean Hall, but doesn't log in." (I hear some giggling from the other players)
My partner, who was a chemistry major, looked at me with a dumbfounded look, then decided to take a stab at it. "Janitor???"
He was right.