Happy birthday, erika!
I had a whole section about civic pride.
Mayor ,'Chosen'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Calli - Sep 18, 2011 2:43:52 am PDT #26915 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Connie Neil - Sep 18, 2011 3:06:42 am PDT #26916 of 30001
brillig
Happy bday, erika!
hippocampus - Sep 18, 2011 3:07:35 am PDT #26917 of 30001
not your mom's socks.
Happy Birthday, Erika!
Hi Nilly!
Connie Neil - Sep 18, 2011 4:12:15 am PDT #26918 of 30001
brillig
The local weather stations are beginning to talk about the average day of first snowfall. Deep sigh of contentment. I can so cope more easily with cold than with heat.
Theodosia - Sep 18, 2011 4:40:03 am PDT #26919 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
My own official Fall season started here when the furnace turned on the other night. Of course, I'd left the windows open, so that helped the temp inside get down to 50-ish, but still.
Jesse - Sep 18, 2011 4:41:59 am PDT #26920 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Happy birthday, erika!
OMG, I have to NEVER EVER BUY the TJ's chocolate-covered almonds with sea salt.
Oh yeah.
smonster - Sep 18, 2011 6:55:44 am PDT #26921 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
As soon as the Christmas assortment chocolate-covered JoJos come in, I'm buying at least six boxes.
Totally. Last year they ran out 3 weeks before Christmas, and I couldn't get any more! NEVER AGAIN.
The local weather stations are beginning to talk about the average day of first snowfall.
Meanwhile, just reading this gave me a moment of anxiety.
Nora Deirdre - Sep 18, 2011 7:03:41 am PDT #26922 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Before the end of rent control, Beacon Hill had some pretty skanky, cheap rentals shoulder-by-shoulder with luxurious townhouses. I definitely remember seeing a coin-op laundromat, but that's more than 10 years ago easily.
The back end of Beacon Hill (the side that intersects with Cambridge Street, as opposed to Charles Street) is filled with townhouses converted to apartments. At least, when I lived there in 1993. The place I lived in (on Grove Street) had enormous common area rooms, tiny bedrooms,and ENORMOUS COCKROACHES. HMOG. New Orleans sized. Not the size of New Orleans roaches, THE SIZE OF NEW ORLEANS.
Many of my friends also had apartments in the ass end of Beacon Hill, in similar carved up slumlord apartments.
Jesse - Sep 18, 2011 7:11:26 am PDT #26923 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Not the size of New Orleans roaches, THE SIZE OF NEW ORLEANS.
Heh.
When I was looking two years ago, I saw some of those places, mostly fixed up and not cheap, but still tiny and weird.
Amy - Sep 18, 2011 7:17:26 am PDT #26924 of 30001
Because books.
I thought my worst roach experience was living in Florida for two years (where they call them "palmetto bugs" and they FLY), but it wasn't.
I babysat/nannied for a couple in Rupert Towers in the east 90s when I was twenty, and it was a couple of big, lovely highrises. Their apartment was gorgeous -- three bedrooms, three baths, big open area living/dining/kitchen. And OVERRUN with roaches. I would run the dishwasher and open it to see roaches scurrying over the clean dishes.
Apparently it was due to the incinerators or something, but whatever. I was never so glad to quit a job. I had to stay with the baby for a week once while they were travelling, and afterwards I swear I had PTSD.
S. and I lived in a studio two floors above a Chinese restaurant, and I swear we saw a roach maybe once. So weird.