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Giddy with Glee
02/19/09
Giddy with Glee
Meeting up with Emvee in Boston tonight for an impromptu It's-A-Really-Nice-Day-Out-For-New-England-In-February evening after he gets out of work. I like to ride the train in and feel like I have some exciting purpose in the Big City, even though I really work in Manchester and Lowell, the Not Quite So Big cities. Nobody has to know that, though. If you zip around without consulting a million maps and looking like a big dweeb with some dorky fannypack on and a bucket hat, I feel like maybe nobody is the wiser. Nobody has to know that the most exciting thing I did on my day off today was sit in the Borders cafe in new Hampshire with my lame decaf coffee trying to wade through the labwork and symptom interpretations for my critical care final for work. Or that I have the overwhelming urge to take a nap right now. Oh, and I also spent about twenty minutes peeling and consuming a grapefruit while watching the news this morning. The Morning News! I watched the morning news! I've met chinchillas who lead more exciting lives than I do.
Anyways, even though I've been into Boston a million times and it's kind of old hat to Mark because he's there every day for work, I still feel like its sort of an adventure when I go. I stuff my bag full of crap I don't need, as if there's nowhere in Boston to buy chapstick or tylenol. I layer clothing. I leave the passwords to all my offshore bank accounts and the key to my teenage diary out on the kitchen table so that my parents can break in to my apartment and have access to all my important assets, should I not make it back from this endeavor. I preemptively bequeath my ceedee collection to Chaz, who I know is the only one in my family who would possibly appreciate it the way I do. I bring a protein snack in case of fatigue.
I'm going to Boston tonight in the sunshine to see Mark and eat food, two of my favorite things.
Like I said, an adventure.
16 comments
1. You two are disgustingly cute. I vomited in my mouth a little reading this post. =P2. I live in Chicago, work downtown and each day is still an adventure for me. I love the city.
3. Was Chaz the person that reminded you of me?
that sounds like so much fun!i love going to teh Big City and having some fun
this made me laugh. not at you, though; just a happy laugh. I, too, get very excited anytime we go somewhere special (i.e. anywhere outside of the city limits, although I do also get excited about grocery shopping here in town), and take far too many things. We might need that toenail clipper, who knows?
also, you mean that John and I should leave our bucket hats and fanny packs AT HOME?!?!
Don't worry. There ARE people out there who have less interesting lives than you. Take me, for instance. I realized this the other night as Tom and I sat down in our fuzzy pajamas to watch Jeopardy, while I knitted and Tom clipped his fingernails. I thought "Holy cow. We've already hit 50 years of marriage in one fell swoop." 
Pham, no vomits please. We're not that cute. :PDanika, bucket hats = NOOOOOOO PLEASE NOOOO!!! :D I definitely feel like I'm easily pleased. Mark and I go to the mall ALL THE TIME and we never buy anything. We don't even go into any stores. We just wander around to look at people. That's pretty bad, I think. Which ties in with what I want to say to Jen, which is that I am a HUGE Jeopardy fan. Not the type who tapes the episodes or remembers to watch every night but the kind who finds it on teevee and squeals with delight and then screams answers at the top of her lungs for a half an hour and tallies up how many bucks she would earn if she were actually ON Jeopardy. I would make a mint.
I was watching Jeopardy! last night and my roommate walked in and started mocking me. But then she got sucked in and started yelling the answers at the TV with me. I'm a bad influence on her. I also caught her watching one of my favorite reality TV shows.But I digress...
I'd get excited about going into Boston, too. Or anywhere, really. I'm pretty darn excited about an upcoming jaunt into Los Angeles. ;)
I'm guessing the excitement doesn't stem primarily from the cityscapes, however, Kate. :P I would not win Jeopardy in a million years. I just watch to snork at Alex trebec and his fancy over-annunciations of foreign words. ;-) I like to think that I would win, but I know I wouldn't because I'd be way too stressed and hyperactive. Still, it's fun to try. :)My Dad always does his Alex Trebec impression where he says, "Ha! I *THOUGHT!* you wouldn't have known that...."
i love watching jeopardy. i can never win those end-of-the-show questions though - final jeopardy - gah - gets me every time! 
Oh, Cassie you just have found your match. I would beat you at jeopardy any day, any time. I rock the jeopardy world! I've had my opportunities to watch it. During my long breaks at school I can catch it in the student lounge, and patients have it on almost every night at the hospital. I am pretty good with the science questions, especially. Hrmm... Impressive, Chera, but realize that I have been honing my Jeopardy! skills since I was about nine years old. :D 
funny:) I get excidet when I travel no matter the destination.. well maybe except for the dentist ;) 
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