Friday, I'm in Love
One of the things I miss most about college is that the weekend started Friday mornings (I was not of those lucky ones whose weekends started on Thursdays). Now, I have to wait until Friday evening, which is much too long. Friday is THE longest day of the week by far, mostly because I just can't wait for the weekend to start. And then, of course, the weekend just flies by and next thing I know it's Monday again. So I try to make sure that my weekends are jam-packed full of fun. And, that, they have been...
Last weekend, the long President's Day weekend, was full of adventure and surprise. It all started out swell. Abby Ballou and I had planned to drive to Greenwich, CT and then take Metro-North to NYC. This was made impossible by several occurrences. While driving down I-84W, something flew off the car in front of us and gave us a flat tire. As Abby called AAA (Association of Apathetic Asses), I attempted to change the flat with confidence since I have successfully done so before. Much to my dismay, a combination of darkness, frigid wind, and a lack of a tire iron (to loosen the bolts on the rim) made it futile. An hour and a half later and several attempts at finding someone other than AAA to help us out, our AAA man showed up in his big truck. Just as we were getting excited to get going, our man informs us that our spare is flat. Are you kidding me?! Nope. Luckily, our guy is the only person at AAA that is helpful and he took our spare to a gas station to fill up with air. However, this wasted only more our precious time and we were left with only a little over an hour to drive 70 miles on a spare, which we could only drive 55mph on. Talk about cutting it dangerously close! We manage to get to the New Haven station (since we obviously were not going to make it to Greenwich) with about 2 minutes to spare... which ended up being not enough. Abby and I stood on the platform and watched the last train of the day pull away. Bastards. Nevertheless, we did manage to get to New York. We arrived in the city at 1:30am via Greyhound.
The adventures in car trouble did not end there. On Sunday, we attempted to make our way back to Boston, but first we had to find a place to get a tire. Ha. No such luck. So we left NYC early Monday morning hoping that the folks at Firestone in New Haven would fit us into their tight schedule. While driving around New Haven looking for the place, the engine light started to blink. Like we needed more trouble. On the bright side, at least this happened before the tire was fixed rather than after. So we sat in the icebox that was Firestone for who-knows-how-long until finally the car was ready. And that is the end of our adventure, which Abby is going to turn into a great country hit. Look for it in the near future.
This weekend was not nearly as adventurous, but still quite eventful. Here, in Boston, we had some snow on Friday that made for much fun. I love how snow turns most people of any age into giddy children. There are few things that are better than a good snow fight. Also occurring in Boston this weekend was the Silent Dance Experiment. These guys called Banditos Misteriosos (Spanish for Mysterious Bandits) decided to gather some people at Faneuil Hall who would all dance to music that was silent to the general public. This was accomplished by downloading a song from their website, putting it on our iPods, syncing our watches, showing up at the intended time, inserting our headphones, and hitting play at the same time. Then we just danced and followed the instructions in the song. It was a lot of fun! Following our fun dance experiment, Allen Penniman, Jehanne Junguenet, Rachel Mandell, Seth Solway, and I played a game of Scrabble at a quaint cafe called Francesca's Cafe in the South End. Apparently this was not my weekend for winning games since I lost terribly in Scrabble and had previously lost a game of Catch Phrase on Friday night with this same group of people. All I have to say about that is that I'm going to win next time. I will be unmerciful.
To finish off my weekend, I baked some delicious oatmeal chocolate chip cookies and am currently watching the Academy Awards. Speaking of which, I cannot believe that Cate Blanchett didn't win Best Supporting Actress. Anyway, I'm going to go stuff my face with cookies and milk. Until next time...
One final thing, check out the Boston Silent Dance Experiment: http://www.misteriosos.org/
Comments
Next time....
1. Take Amtrak from Boston to NYC - why drive to Greenwich?
2. I don't think I have ever driven a car lacking a tire iron. Thats dumb.
3. No self-respecting 20-something would pay heed to the speed and limit suggestions of a donut spare.
Posted by: Anonymous | February 27, 2008 05:33 PM
However...
1. Amtrak is crazy expensive
2. Not my car
3. I wasn't driving
Posted by: Marissa | March 2, 2008 04:02 PM