Boston wins.
Pro:
Scrabble, Trivial Pursiut Booklovers Edition, Monopoly.
Paris Creperie. so good. sooooooo good.
Toscanini's
Cold Stone Creamery Milkshakes
Boston Common
The Silver Line -- I thought I'd hate it, but it worked really well.
Max is an amazing cook.
The Thirsty Scholar. Cause... Curry Fries.
Still remembering where things are in Harvard Square.
Bob Slate Stationers, for carrying Claire Fontaine notebooks in all varieties.
Dunkin Donuts Coffee. (Matt in fact lives in throwing distance of a Dunkie's and a Starbucks.)
Baptiste Yoga -- the original.
Max's sparkly mermaid tattoo.
Matt, Max, and Betsy. And Elana. Good folks.
Con:
Charlie Tickets. I miss tokens. Or at least if they have to go all NYC on us, they could make them so you can use them at all the stations.
Betsy's chemistry test, for stressing her out even though she aced the shit out of it.
The Red Sox losing all the rest of the games they played while I was there. LAME AND A HALF.
Leaving. So sad.
Though leaving did go better than expected. My flight was overbooked, and they called me by name to the podium. Hey, they said, we have an idea for you. Take this flight to LA that's leaving RIGHT NOW, then we'll get you on this flight to phoenix, and you'll get home 2 hours after your original plan. And you can stand by for an earlier flight to phoenix. And here, have a free round-trip ticket anywhere in the US with no blackouts.
I accepted, got on the earlier flight, and got home in decent time, free ticket in hand. I got to watch 2 movies on the plane (since Boston to LA is a 6 hour flight). Mission: Impossible III... bad but in a good way. And Inside Man.
And now I have a free ticket! Woot!
Ask me about my aloe plant... update coming.
posted by Amy at 3:41 PM
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Wooo, free ticket.
Also, once Boston rolls out their CharlieCard (which will be reusable RFID card), you'll be loving it if you use it. I use it on the Metro in DC all the time and it works great.
Er, well. I don't use a CharlieCard on the Metro. I use the Metro version, SmarTrip (and, oddly enough, Metro was one of the early systems in the country to roll out an RFID-based farecard).
RE: MI:3 "Bad but in a good way..." I can't wait to hear about this since MI:2 holds the honor of being the WORST movie I have ever seen. Then again, I did kind of wanted to see MI:3.... I guess I love train wrecks. Congrats on the free ticket, that's pretty sweet!
Yes... I had a SmarTrip card too, which was especially handy as it worked on the busses and on the Metro.
The real problem with the Charlie tickets is that they're implementing it slowly and roughly. So some stations only take tokens, and some only take cards. Meaning that if you have a card, sometimes you still need to bring cash and buy a token, and if you just carry around a pocket full of tokens, you can't just use 'em at some of the stations. Which is a ginormous pain in the ass.
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