Update from the world of Boo

I live in Boston now. It took a few days, but I think it finally sank in. Sunday night, I went to a potluck dinner with Osei. There were about 12 people there, we ate and played games, a general good time. However, I was still a visitor, laughing with another imported person that she'd been in town 48 hours longer than me, making her a veteran of the city. Tuesday night was a grand old time, hopping down to the corner to play dominoes with the Mission Hill Domino Authority. I had my first beer here, a Stone IPA, further working to cement me in my surroundings. Good people and good fun twice already.

Then came the sort of nonsense I've grown to expect from the sort of people I've met and stayed with along the way. Four phone calls and a couple of facebook messages into the night, I found myself meeting an old Young Lifer down at the grocery store. Five minutes later, we were out the door and zipping off to a house right down the street from an apartment I'd seen earlier in the day, where we cooked steaks and potatoes and corn before heading out. Out? To the Plough and Stars, a monumental dive bar in Cambridge that hosts Bad Art Ensemble, one of the most peculiar bands I've ever come across. It's a collection of professional musicians in a jazz band format that play loony music all night long without being paid. They bring the fun.

When I got dropped off at the door around 1:30am, with nothing left in my tank but to flop on the bed and meet the sandman, I knew that I'd arrived here. Thursday was a boisterous follow-up that included throwing a myriad of resumes out into the Craigslist stratosphere, as well as looking at 5 apartments, mostly on foot. I awoke this morning with nothing specifically scheduled to do and worried I might be sinking back into the earlier week doldrums that saw me read an entire book in three days. However, I've been up for 2 hours and haven't even gotten to breakfast yet, which is a good sign. Someone responded to one of my applications, too. Onward and upward, baby!