This entry is for Mike. Presenting...
10 Things I Really Do Like and Admire About the Greater Boston Area
1. Fierce and all-consuming loyalty to sports teams and one of the most legendary baseball parks in the country.
2. That you can walk from one end of the city to the other in an afternoon -- and on a really nice afternoon, that walk is one of the most pleasant activities around.
3. Even though I complain constantly about how isolated I feel in Medford, the truth is that it's a quicker trip from my house to downtown Boston than it is from my apartment to downtown Manhattan.
4. If you can drive here, you can drive anywhere. Except maybe Paris. But anyway, living here has made me a better driver.
5. My Boston radio stations.
6. The accents and the attitude that often accompanies them: not always delightful, but delightfully unique.
7. When you've lived here long enough that you begin to assimilate all the quirky things that non-natives don't even know about or understand (like candlepin bowling, bubblers and saving your parking space in the winter), you feel like you've been admitted to some weird New England secret society.
8. Superior ice cream, most notably the rare and wonderful peppermint stick flavor.
9. All the history sometimes makes Boston feel quaint and charming, two words that cannot be applied to any part of New York City except perhaps Forest Hills Gardens and the Belvedere Castle in Central Park (both designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, who also designed the Emerald Necklace in Boston!).
10. Boston is a city I've come to know independently, and the first city in which I've been entirely independent. For better or for worse, I've gotten lost here, made friends here, lived on my own here and left behind the person I was before I got here. Sometimes when I go home, I feel bogged down by the weight of 23 years' worth of memories. In Boston I can be lighter.
Bonus #11: My Boston-area friends are stupendous. If only Boston and New York could somehow co-exist right next to each other in some kind of space warp vacuum, I would be set for life!
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Boston, you're my home
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8 comments:
You just made me SO homesick for Boston. I wish there were more law schools there. :(
I feel honored to have a post specificly for me. You're totally back in the ten year newton plan (by the way, unfortinately for you that means I'll soon be asking everyday why you don'y live on my street).
P.S. - off the top of my head Suffolk and UMass Boston are half way decent law schools.
Wooo, back in the plan! Far better than being back on the chain gang.
Gwen, I just got this random image in my head of you going to Harvard Law School, only it was you as Elle Woods in the Legally Blonde version of Harvard Law School, so it made me go, "Hee."
Ha! Awesome. I could take Paddington to class with me and everything. :)
Actually, I'm applying to Harvard, but it's a bit of a crapshoot (and super expensive regardless -- their financial setup requires to borrow a MINIMUM of $30k in loans each year before you can receive any grant money), and maybe BC and BU as safeties. They just don't have any schools in between, which is sad, because that's where I'm looking. But hey, I might be in New York!
I might be in New York too! ::squeal::
awww...I miss bubblers....and frappe's...and friendly's! I liked the sentiment of this post, and it left me homesick!
Sometimes I am so busy being homesick for New York that I forget that other people get homesick for Boston. And when I'm in New York, I don't allow myself to miss Boston because it only leaves me feeling conflicted, but the next time I am in the city (um, I mean, "New York"), I will remind myself that it is OK to be nostalgic for turning right on red and Super Stop 'n Shop.
So it looks like the final score for this post was:
2 homesick
1 vindicated
OooooooSuperStopNShop. Now I'm really homesick.
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