As you can see, Somerville is dressed appropriately for the holiday. The above is quite a conservative example; never before in my life have I seen so much holiday kitsch shoved into a four-square-mile area. Once (if?) it ever stops snowing, I promise to take and then upload the finer examples of what the Somerville city website terms "folk artistry." (!)Anyway, this dispatch from Somerville is long overdue. It was with some shock that I discovered my last post was almost four months ago; I promise to rectify that in the coming months. Some day, this blogging thing will stick! To be fair, the last few months haven't exactly been blog-worthy. To wit:
-Job searching. Boring! However, if you need a resume revised, call me.
-Surgery. Fun! My first stay in a hospital, where the constant offers of morphine were actually a bit alarming. As was the guy that kept trying to violently escape from the post-op ward. Like I said, fun.
-Obsessively following the election. Gut-wrenching! Sadly, I thought this was one activity that might dissipate after the actual election, but I fully admit my addiction to political news and gossip. On the upside, having a date with this Valley resident every night at 9pm has made the political news palatable.
Less palatable, of course, was the outcome of the Prop 8 vote. Although fully aware that the gesture was probably ineffectual, we attended the Join the Impact rally in Boston. It was an impressively attended rally, however, and the number of Massachusetts politicians who attended and voiced their enthusiastic support of the GLBT community was a reassuring sight. It also turned into something of a mini-Smith reunion (of course), and I was pleased to see other Seven Sisters students in attendance:
Several weeks later, it's still hard not to feel infuriated by Prop 8 and similar ballot initiatives across the country. I had higher hopes for us in 2008. Keep your fingers crossed that California Attorney General Jerry Brown changing his mind is a sign of better things to come.
Otherwise, things have been fairly quiet in Somerville. As the title
of this blog suggests, we've been jaunting around a bit, catching sights like the trine of the moon, Venus, and Jupiter, and stopping by the beach in Rockport so that I can finally claim to have visited the Atlantic in Massachusetts after living here for ten years. We've been back to the Valley for some parties and good visits with friends (and also to take the LSAT; more on that in the future), enjoying some good meals (and quite a few So Valley! moments) and the picaresque beauty that sadly, you can really only find in western Mass. The photographic evidence of our jaunts has been limited by my inertia and constant forgetfulness, so consider it my new year's resolution to more properly document what I consider to be a (pleasingly) dull life.One final public service announcement, however: With your impending vacation days, do yourself a favor and see a) Milk and b) Slumdog Millionaire. Finally a couple of movies on which I don't actually mind spending ten dollars a ticket.
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