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Monday, November 11, 2002
Hi honey, I'm home.
Actually, I got back to Boston on Thursday after a longer-than-planned trip up to Vermont. Spent the past three days hiding indoors, building furniture, and rearranging (and, ugh, rewiring) our livingroom. The nest of A/V cables and power cords behind my desk, stereo, and TV is truly frightening. The end result was worth the tedium, though. Our pad is on the verge of 'stylin'.  And what of this trip to Vermont? A combination birthday / work trip that included a trip to Montreal, another stop by Ikea (to grab the aforementioned furniture), a ride to the top of Olympic Stadium, and a walk through the super-cool Biodome. Monkeys and sloths and penguins, oh my! Walk through one door and you're in a tropical rainforest, with monkeys swinging, parrots flying, and sloths hanging above your head. Another door and you're in the Pacific Northwest, with beavers and river otters doing their thing. A bat-filled cave, and penguin-infested arctic zone, and a watery birdland, too. Amie was obsessed with the world's largest rodent... a hamster-looking thing that was bigger than most dogs. I thought she was going to try and take one home, but we probably would have had trouble declaring it at the border.  a real live R.O.U.S. (rodent of unusual size) Other trip highlights: Seeing the Magic is Gone at Radio Bean, dinner with dad and Grammy, running into Bob, Tracey (happy birthday!), and Chris at Red Square, drinks and dinner with Howard, Randy, and Nancy on Church Street, and playin' a little GTA:Vice City with Jim. Lowlights? Getting lost on the way to the Montreal hotel, missing a visiting Shawn by one day in Burlington, and being accosted by mr. crazy-old-man at the Bean. Freak. So I'm back, settled, and ultra-motivated for some reason. Feeling good about work, feeling good about things in general. What's up with that? Saw the Ring last night. Loved it, although I can see why the end would be frustrating for some. Hey, it worked for me, and makes sense if you put some extra thought into it. There's something I'm forgetting to talk about... hmmm... oh, maybe that whole election fiasco. I'm tired of talking about it, thinking about it, hearing about it. This country needs a wake-up call. I went from shocked, to disappointed, to resigned, to apathetic in the course of about two days last week. There are three specific repercussions of the New Republican Rule that bum me out: Vermont's kick-ass senators lose their committee-leading positions, our court-appointed justices start leaning severly to the right, and more personally, my father's job as a Vermont cabinet member is in the hands of the newly-elected governor. We'll see how that plays out in the coming week, hopefully. Excellent article in the Globe online about the making of Dennis Lehane's "Mystic River", which Clint Eastwood has just finished shooting here in Boston. One year until it hits the screens. Please don't suck. One last link before I go... check out Zentertainment and sign up for their email newsletter. Every week this guy named Sean Jordan pulls together a comprehensive list of new DVDs, CDs, and movies, as well as top 10 lists and cool news bites, and sends them your way. As far as I can tell he doesn't share your address with anyone, and it seems like he does this thing just for the fun of it. Good stuff. Alright, back to business. Later gator.  |
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