March 31st, 2006
After a very brief appearance at the office yesterday, I have a day off. What a feeling. Due in large to my intense travel this month ( San Francisco, New York, and then well-publicized Boston trip), I am quite behind on my school work which is the official reason for my free Friday. Oddly enough, I have been doing many non-homework related things today. Laundry, groceries, even a trip to the gym are all fantastic and productive activities one might want to engage into while avoiding several papers and two chapters on the topic of transfer pricing and international taxation. But I don’t think even Ben will be too mad at my procrastination– this is a true mental health day, something that should kick me out of panic mode.
In related news, I do apologize to my few readers for being so silent this month— this and the previous posts speak pretty clearly as to why that has happened. My two trips that I haven’t written about were business-related and not glamorous. Even my unplanned San Francicso travel in early March disappointed– while it was 55F degrees in Minneapolis, SFO was cold and covered with rain. It snowed the morning after I left. I was in New York only for two days and came back home less than 24 hours before our flight took off for Boston.
We’re getting into the final stretch– only 45 days left before my semester is over and there’s no business travel scheduled for April. Still focused on passing my classes, I already can’t help but wonder: what’s out there after grad school?
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March 28th, 2006
Foortune cookies lie. A dozen or so of politically correct bland statements (”your friends are your greatest treasure!”, “big changes are ahead!”) are only worth reading to see how funny they’d sound with “in bed” added to the end of each phrase. Still, once in a while a pre-fabricated mass-produced message delivered together with the bill is going to hit you right in the head.
Patience. I need to be patient. Sitting alone in a Chinese restaurant in Boston, far away from home which I have barely seen this month, behind on my work, overwhelmed with school, I almost cried when I saw the little paper. I know things will get better. I am done with travel for a few months, my school work ( no matter how much of it) will be over in two months, and my office is not going to explode even if I have 807 email messages in my inbox. Patience. Breathe deep and get through all this stuff. Keep your focus and don’t stop trying just becase you feel sorry for yourself.
I am coming home tomorrow. Can’t wait.
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March 28th, 2006
The Gina half of this blog is going to kill me for this one.
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March 26th, 2006
Which probably won’t count for much, we didn’t go to any classes. But, we did walk all over Cambridge, which is similar to but different from Boston. It is similar in the colonial and pre-colonial constructions, narrow road asnd general gentility. But the town does have a very distinct vibe. Fewer tourists, denser “old town” feeling with the general lack of newer buildings. Even many of the Harvard offices appear to be converted houses or small church buildings.
We attempted to get a National Historic Site stamp for Gina at Longfellow’s house but they were closed for the season. So, we did pretty well with 5 national parks stamps on this leg of the national scavenger hunt.
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March 25th, 2006
We enjoyed a great dinner at Legal Seafood, which was fantastic, really fantastic. There are a few locations, and definately worth it. I even tried a bite of Gina’s halibut.
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March 25th, 2006
We covered a fair bit of ground again on Saturday. Starting with switching hotels we stopped at the New England Aquarium and enjoyed some penguins, a bunch of fish, turtles and did not enjoy all the little bastards at all.
They have 3 different kinds of penguins, and really, penguins are fun to watch.
We then jumped on a train and went to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, which is quite large, so we focused on the Asian art - rather extensive of Indian, Chinese and Japanese Bhuddist and Hindu art.
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March 24th, 2006
For dinner tonight we went to one of what I’m sure are hundreds of great Italian restaurants in the North End. Within 4 blocks we looked at no less than 9 menus and skipped at least as many.
We ended up at Strega, which was a lovely little place, and we got a small table by the front window. I had a portobella, spinach, and chicken risotto while Gina had seafood risotto with every kind of non-fish seafood you could ask for. It was really good. Especially paired with a D’Nalo (which is Sicilian and new to us)
Not only was the food great, but this place was so Italian, they had three different gangster movies playing on different screens - we had Scarface, Goodfellas, and another I couldn’t distinguish because I could only see it in the mirror.
We then went to The Union Oyster House which claims to be the first restaurant in the United States (thus ostensibly the first restaurant in North America) - I assume that it only qualifies as a restaurant if you have to pay for your meal/drinks. Gina’s green apple martini was clearly very historic, just as my beer was.
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March 24th, 2006
Just a short distance away is the Bunker Hill monument, which has a little museum and looks a lot like the Washington Monument (except shorter, and no elevator).
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March 24th, 2006
Despite not being too in to military stuff, we stopped at the USS Constitution and got a picture of Gina.
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