Four things about a visit to Boston

I had a nice conversation with sunspiral Wednesday night about the purple hair dye he uses, but unfortunately forgot the name of the product within a few minutes. I remember that he said I can get it at Hot Topic, but he also said that they carry at least one other that isn't any good (in that it does nasty things to the texture of the hair).

Unfortunately, adrian_turtle and I didn't get to see browngirl, who wasn't over the nasty illness she'd had earler in the week, and thought it best not to leave the house on Saturday. We did have a nice conversation, using Adrian's speakerphone, and maybe we'll catch up at Boskone.

On my way to South Station on Sunday, I stopped and bought an ice cream cone. I was eating it on the platform at the Porter Square T station, and someone came over, and asked if he could ask me a question. I said yes, and he asked me whether there were shops at Central [Square]. Yes, there are shops at Central. Then he asked if I knew whether there was a Tibetan shop there. Yes, there is, but I can't remember the name. Turned out he had just visited the one near Porter Square, been disappointed, and trying to find out if "the other one" was at Central or Harvard Square. He also asked if I knew the location, and all I could tell him is that it's not far from the T stop. Even if I did remember, I still haven't gotten a handle on compass directions for most of the Boston area, and someone who had to ask whether there are shops at Central Square isn't going to find "it's in the same direction as|opposite direction from Tosci's" useful. After talking to him, it occurred to me that he might have read the ice cream cone as "local, likely to know her way around"; my next thought was that "woman eating ice cream" could probably be used as an ideogram for "harmless."

There's a newsstand in South Station. Magazines, newspapers, gum, candy, I think cigarettes, that sort of stuff. And, as of yesterday, calendars. A single design of calendar. In large friendly letters, it said "Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States," next to a photograph of the president-elect.

Four things about a visit to Boston

I had a nice conversation with sunspiral Wednesday night about the purple hair dye he uses, but unfortunately forgot the name of the product within a few minutes. I remember that he said I can get it at Hot Topic, but he also said that they carry at least one other that isn't any good (in that it does nasty things to the texture of the hair).

Unfortunately, adrian_turtle and I didn't get to see browngirl, who wasn't over the nasty illness she'd had earler in the week, and thought it best not to leave the house on Saturday. We did have a nice conversation, using Adrian's speakerphone, and maybe we'll catch up at Boskone.

On my way to South Station on Sunday, I stopped and bought an ice cream cone. I was eating it on the platform at the Porter Square T station, and someone came over, and asked if he could ask me a question. I said yes, and he asked me whether there were shops at Central [Square]. Yes, there are shops at Central. Then he asked if I knew whether there was a Tibetan shop there. Yes, there is, but I can't remember the name. Turned out he had just visited the one near Porter Square, been disappointed, and trying to find out if "the other one" was at Central or Harvard Square. He also asked if I knew the location, and all I could tell him is that it's not far from the T stop. Even if I did remember, I still haven't gotten a handle on compass directions for most of the Boston area, and someone who had to ask whether there are shops at Central Square isn't going to find "it's in the same direction as|opposite direction from Tosci's" useful. After talking to him, it occurred to me that he might have read the ice cream cone as "local, likely to know her way around"; my next thought was that "woman eating ice cream" could probably be used as an ideogram for "harmless."

There's a newsstand in South Station. Magazines, newspapers, gum, candy, I think cigarettes, that sort of stuff. And, as of yesterday, calendars. A single design of calendar. In large friendly letters, it said "Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States," next to a photograph of the president-elect.