I got back from Boston yesterday, finished making comments on the Research Essay drafts, and ate some perogies. I considered making a post last night, but got distracted and didn't. How's that for an introduction paragraph?
Last week was the annual PCA/ACA conference. It was in Boston, and I was originally going to be splitting a room with two other people. After my adventures in the A-T-L last year, I was planning on staying at the conference hotel, and figured that splitting the massive cost 3 ways would be sort of reasonable. Unfortunately, the other two bailed out (and didn't tell me until two weeks ago, after I called several times and sent many emails), and I was stuck in a $135-a-night room. Admittedly, it was pretty nice to get to just walk downstairs each morning, and I never had to go outside into the 10-degree Boston April. But, now I'm hosed with a $600 Hotel tab. I think Smitty owes me about 15 trips to Parnell's.
When I wasn't sitting through panels on "Talladega Nights and Masculinity" (which I freakishly predicted in a blog post about a month ago), I got to hang around downtown Boston, which, when you ignore all the Sox fans, is a pretty cool place. Got to see family, hang out with Koco (and his fish tank), and ride the least efficient public transit system outside of Soviet Russia (where road forks you...). In honor of the abyssmally slow T, here's a random picture I found a while ago and never posted:
(I was uber-productive and finished everything early - now I'm bored and waiting for an even more boring class to start. Maybe I'll post some actual content later)
2 comments:
Hey, I've gotta stand up for my Red Line here. You were stuck out on the Green Line, which everyone in Boston knows is abysmal. Don't knock the whole system just because of one bad line.
Anyway, it was great to have you in town. I read through all of your old posts over the weekend. Hope you can get that hotel bill covered!
The green line was interminably slow, but the red wsn't much better.
Admittedly, for the price, I shouldn't complain - the DC metro charges an arm and a leg to go the same distance.
(remind me to give you the rest of the T card when you come to town - it's got about $6 on it)
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