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Day 724: Riding the MTA
Feb. 12th, 2009 09:43 pmWow. It's almost impossible to believe, but I'm 23. Like in the old Blink 182 song - nobody likes you when you're twenty-three. I made Professor Culhane feel old, which made me feel bad. Last night I totally channeled my mom and cleaned my house and packed. I watched a brand new episode of Criminal Minds, which made me super-squee. Apparently I've listened to MGG reading Annabelle Lee too many times, because when the show opened with lines from Annabel Lee, I could recite them along with the speaker (couldn't tell if it was JJ or Prentiss). And just thought I should mention it, but necrophilia seriously squicks me out. The detective dude made me squee for other random pointless reasons (anyone who knows me in the RL and saw the episode probably knows why). I was crazy excited about going to Boston so I stayed up stupidly late talking to Daniel, who bade me happy birthday right after midnight with a random birthday clip from Family Guy.
This morning Kent and Angela picked me up, and we went to the airport. Angela and I sat next to each other on the flight into Chicago, and I tatted. We were seated separately on the flight into Boston - I slept the entire time. The flight was pretty empty, but we made it. And now we are masters of the MTA. (It's called the MBTA now, but listened to the Kingston Trio a lot as a child, and find it hilarious that the smart card for the MBTA is called the Charlie card.) We went to Harvard and saw the law school (where, woeface and shameface all in one, I lost my camera). We ran into Adam and Officer Despain there and they told us crazy stories about how Despain rescued a woman from losing an arm on the train. Angela and I wandered around the neighborhood near the hotel and found a restaurant, and after we found the law school we wandered around Harvard Square. I bought a supply of postcards, and we bought cheap five-dollar environmentally friendly bags because I didn't have a purse and she needed to carry gym shoes with her. There was a whole lot of playing phone tag with Ryan, and then while we were wandering around downtown (which closed at 8!) I ran into Bryan, Alison's old boyfriend. Apparently he's a techie with Disney on Ice and he was wandering around with some of the performers. It was a totally random way to run into someone.
Angela and I walked a whole lot today and mastered the MTA, and now we're back in the hotel. We ordered random pizza, and we've watched TV.
It's been along day, and there's a whole lot of stuff I need to do, but I'm tired, and I suspect I will fall crazy behind on my writing this week, so apologies to Michele and BenTen.
Also, today people called me, like Del and Chani and Mal and Schu. It was awesome to hear their voices, and everyone's been seriously cool about the fact that it's my birthday.
My name is Nagi, and now I am 23.
This morning Kent and Angela picked me up, and we went to the airport. Angela and I sat next to each other on the flight into Chicago, and I tatted. We were seated separately on the flight into Boston - I slept the entire time. The flight was pretty empty, but we made it. And now we are masters of the MTA. (It's called the MBTA now, but listened to the Kingston Trio a lot as a child, and find it hilarious that the smart card for the MBTA is called the Charlie card.) We went to Harvard and saw the law school (where, woeface and shameface all in one, I lost my camera). We ran into Adam and Officer Despain there and they told us crazy stories about how Despain rescued a woman from losing an arm on the train. Angela and I wandered around the neighborhood near the hotel and found a restaurant, and after we found the law school we wandered around Harvard Square. I bought a supply of postcards, and we bought cheap five-dollar environmentally friendly bags because I didn't have a purse and she needed to carry gym shoes with her. There was a whole lot of playing phone tag with Ryan, and then while we were wandering around downtown (which closed at 8!) I ran into Bryan, Alison's old boyfriend. Apparently he's a techie with Disney on Ice and he was wandering around with some of the performers. It was a totally random way to run into someone.
Angela and I walked a whole lot today and mastered the MTA, and now we're back in the hotel. We ordered random pizza, and we've watched TV.
It's been along day, and there's a whole lot of stuff I need to do, but I'm tired, and I suspect I will fall crazy behind on my writing this week, so apologies to Michele and BenTen.
Also, today people called me, like Del and Chani and Mal and Schu. It was awesome to hear their voices, and everyone's been seriously cool about the fact that it's my birthday.
My name is Nagi, and now I am 23.
