It's my last night in 219 Harvard St. Tomorrow (sorta) I will officially be a resident of Somerville, MA. Right now my bedroom slightly resembles a crack den. There's a bare mattress on the floor and a tv and that's about it. And me, drinking some of Hunter's scotch (sorry!) and watching old episodes of Top Chef. There's no needles though. I'm not sure if crack users use needles. I haven't been watching Cops lately.

Annnyway. Bravo makes the best reality tv shows ever.

My mom is coming to visit in like 2 weeks. We're going to Maine and Sturbridge Village. I suggested Sturbridge because we went there when we took a a family trip to the East Coast when I was 13. Over two weeks, we went to three fake towns and Sturbridge was #2 on the list of top fake towns. She thought I was joking when I brought up going back there, but really, I bought the best smelling cranberry soap there and I'm hoping that they still sell it 12 years later.

This morning at 6:30am I was in Raleigh, NC. Now I am in Brookline, MA. It only took 15 hours in between to get here. Now Hunter has a van (yet to be named) and we only nearly died once!

It's Moving Week.

I joined a new gym. With the move, I'm going to be far away from Brookline, and far far from the Coolidge Corner Gym, so it's bye bye CCG and hello BSC. I have never known more luxury than being able to sweat in a BSC gym. Piles and piles of white towels to wipe my brow, plenty of Dr. 90201 on my individual tv screen attached to my treadmill (45 minutes goes by like THAT) free shampoo, sauna, swimming pool! Oh man oh man. The best $60/mo I could ever spend.

I went for the first time yesterday where I was reminded that in normal gyms (not like CCG, where I've maybe seen someone using the shower once) people walk around all naked in the locker room. There's nothing like realizing you haven't been naked around strangers since the Bremerton YMCA to make you feel like a shy kid again. I'm 25 now though, so I had to convince myself to act natural while attempting to wrap the 4 inch towel around my naked ass. I'm convinced that they make those towels small to motivate you to lose weight. If only I was an inch smaller around! Then I would be able to wrap myself like the true modest prude that I am! Must. Run. 10. More. Miles.

Anyway, first day at the new gym, exposed to all sorts of strangers body parts. I braved my way to the shower and jumped in to take advantage of the free shampoo/bodywash/conditioner. After scrubbing the workout from my skin I reached out to grab my miniature towel. Guess what! It was gone. Somehow in the five minutes of me being in there, some towel-stealer had swooped in with its talons. I peeped out from behind the curtain considering "just going for it!" but quickly realized that there would be no other towels inside the locker room, since they're located out in the main room. DAMMITTTT!! Luckily, one of the women who was powerwashing the other showers ran and got me one. God bless her soul, but man what a cruel cruel initiation into the Watertown BSC.

It's officially time for me to be getting into the shower, but I sorta have to share some pics from Peter and Alyssa's wedding. Although I was pretty nervous about it, the DJing went quite well and I realized that I got more satisfaction from getting some 60+ year olds to dance to James Brown than I ever have with getting drunk Great Scott patrons to dance to some indie dance crap (with the exception of Carl dancing to USE, that's always fun.)

The Commander's Mansion is a huge beautiful building that reminded me of where Patrick and Britney had their wedding.



As soon as they arrived I went through bouts of tearing up. I used to make fun of my mom for crying at weddings and there I was getting emotional at a reception. So embarassing! I haven't been to tons of weddings, but Alyssa was the prettiest bride I've seen.





Afterwards I jumped on the 70 and met Hunter for the Junior Senior show. Umm we ended up sorta drunk. Great idea!


This week is pretty low-key. Probably gonna hit up restaurant week. Probably gonna try to make my room look less embarassingly messy.

I own a lot of stuff. Too much stuff. I threw some out but the rest needs to be stuffed into boxes. Many many boxes. I like moving alright, but I hate the packing part. I just like to unpack and put things in their new places.

And I'm watching Mutual Appreciation and it's making me want to tear my hair out. The weird tension betweeen Lawrence and Ellie and Allen is driving me nuts. NUTS! Aghghhgh. The dialogue is so natural which I enjoy but also drives me so crazy that I can't understand how I go through life not yelling at people for making vague incomplete sentences all the time. It's good though. I like it.

I also watched Tarnation the other night which made me nuts in a different way. I almost had to turn it off when his mother started dancing around with the pumpkin.

And I've got Danielson: A Family Movie, which will probably screw with me even more. Ahhhh.

Hunter bought his tickets to Seattle. He's coming to Seattle! Same dates as me. oOoOOoooo.

Also:
Junior Senior Saturday
Tokyo Police Club Sunday
Oh No Oh My Monday (might go)
Bishop Allen/Page France/The Teeth on Friday

And the beach!!! I'm gonna go to the beach in a couple weeks.

And then we're flying to NC to drive the new van up.

And then summer's over.

God my posting has gotten boring.

Hunter's birthday dinner at Davio's

Arugula Salad, Shaved Parmigiano, Lemon Olive Oil

Green Beans, Local Beets, Fresh Mint, Shaved Red Onion, Goat’s Milk Feta

Eggplant Smoked Mozzarella Ravioli, Pomodoro, Sicilian Green Olives, Oregano

Grilled Sirloin Bavette, Roasted Red Onions, Wild Mushrooms, Yukon Steak Fries

We also had a bottle of wine from Australia. The wine guy described it for a while but I had no idea what he was talking about.

We scrapped plans for Six Flags cause if Hunter's ankle, which ended up being a blessing since it was disgustingly hot outside yesterday.

I bought tix for Seattle on Friday. I'll be there Nov 3-11th. I should probably curb my spending for a bit.. The last few weeks have been pricey!

Looks like the trip to NC is going to happen in few weeks. We'll be driving Hunter's new van up. 14 hours of driving. Ahh it'll be a blast!

Alyssa and Peter's wedding is next week.

Charm School is starting September 13th (finally!) I've been trying to plan out what new things I'm going to start in on this fall... The Plan Djing has been scarce and the radio show doesn't seem to be working out (I'm gonna have my last one in two weeks).. I think once I'm moved and settled, I can start to explore some new ideas. Considering taking a creative writing class through BCAE.. Or maybe a cooking class. Or maybe German. Or maybe classes about real estate. The sky is the limit! aahaha.

I know it's months away, but I'm looking forward to going home.. It's been almost a year since I've been back, and there's some people I haven't seen in several years that it would be good to spend time with.

Well, time to throw some more belongings away!