Boston v. New York

Things I will miss about Boston:
- mostly friends 1, 2, and 3
- the time of the place
- living so close to my brother
- my room! my lovely single room in my really nice apartment
- getting to know the city better everyday
- the South End
- meeting new people
- being a student with vacations to look forward to
- everything being so close in the city
- having 3 day weekends for the past 6 months


Things I won't miss about Boston:
- the wind
- winters that last until June
- massholes
- my prepubescent, passive aggressive, annoying housemates who happened to live in the apartment where my awesome room was
- massholes
- the T, especially the green line
- I don't care about the red sox
- or the patriots
- the freshman looking so young
- massholes

Things that I am looking forward to in New york:
- being way closer to home
- eating at all of these food places
- being in one of the best cities in the world
- having a ton of fun
- Beacon's closet
- living in Brooklyn
- possibly seeing Tina Fey or Anthony Bourdain
- even more realistically pretending that I am Liz Lemon

Things that I am worried about being in New York:
- I won't like what I'm going to do there
- not having people to hang out with to have good times
- not meeting any new people or making new friends
- having my friends in Boston forget about me
- missing out on things in Boston
- everyone lying about visiting me (I won't believe it until it happens!)



This is the first time in 3 years I don't have a residence in Boston. I don't 'live' there anymore, but it is still my second home.

Tee pees

Next to my house there is a private school that hosts a summer camp. I don't know why, but every year the camp sets up about ten tee-pees. Every summer it looks like there is a little Indian village in the field next to our house. It makes me happy to see it when I walk out of our back door. Two years ago, I took some Polaroids of the tee-pee camp. On Monday I noticed that they took down the tee-pees. Camp is over and school has started. I wish I had gone over again to take some more pictures. Next year I definitely will.



I was trying to be cutesy with this one.

google maps street view

I just realized I can now see the house I grew up on on googlemaps street view. I find this simultaneously weird and cool. It's weird because in a way I feel it violates a sense of privacy, but then again anyone can drive down any street and see any location they want. Also it's weird because for the longest time you couldn't see it, and now you can. It seems so sudden, but I don't remember the last time I checked. I guess googlemaps has expanded their horizons.

It is also good news because sometimes when I am homesick I will look at my hometown on google maps from above, to remember the street names and places. Now I can actually look at a picture of my house. (If I am that homesick I should just take a picture of my house and tack it on my wall).

One fun little game to play is to drop the little yellow google maps man somewhere randomly in the United States (or Japan! or Austrailia! Or the UK!) and see a street that you will probably never go down. Another fun game is drop him down in famous location that you yearn to visit.

I just wonder sbout the googlemaps car that drove into my neighborhood, silently taking pictures for the whole world to see.

It was a nice, sunny day when they drove down my street. There is sun shining through the trees, casting shadows on the lawn. It's the early morning, one of the prettiest times of the day. I can see the puddle in the street where the puddle always forms. The trashcans are still at the end of our driveway, but no one else's trashcans are out. I wonder if this is because no one brought in the cans yet from the day before, or they were out prematurely.

The puddle.