Ally's trip to Boston - Classic or Dud?

1. She's off all day at jury duty.

She's roaming the back streets of Amherst looking for a bus depot and cursing the days that Ramon and Otis were born.

All I know is that I had fun...

For my part, I had a pleasant (if blissfully uneventful) meeting w/ Ms. Ally. Found out that EVERYTHING in Boston closes @ 1 AM - what's up with that? Had nice, long conversations about life & stuff. And, of course, marveled at the ostentatious opulence of the Ritz Carleton - they actually press their logos into the ASHTRAYS outside of the elevators. Carrazy.

I was also surprised by the lack of complete lunacy, but I guess not every night can be a re-enactment of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas".

I have been very quiet, which was out of multiple reasons. First and foremost being jury duty, which will incapacitate me during the day today and tomorrow - I have just got home and am checking emails right now. So don't expect much chit chat until I'm out of JD. Secondly, I was SO FUCKING TIRED after getting no sleep for two days straight up, that I fell asleep at 7pm last night and woke up at 6am. I mean, so exhausted.

So yeah, my trip. David came and hung out with me the first night cos all my friends are lame and stayed in Amhurst, and I unfortunately don't have Fred's sister's phone number (FRED!) so I couldn't get her to come. But David was nice enough to stop by and keep me company while I ranted incessantly about how little sense it makes that Boston public transit closes at 1am. The clubs in the area were nice, if a little bit overtrendy looking.

Dan and Joei came by the next night to show us a much nicer club area, and that was very cool. Joei is really super nice and funny and I liked her a lot. We already know I like Dan loads. Otis got another ID confiscated because the bouncer asked him for his zip code and he said - wait, this is a classic - "Uhhhhhh....I don't know, I just moved." But we went to another place that used a handstamp system to let under 21s in, and some girl who looked like Alicia Silverstone still served him alcohol, so it was all good.

I have some awesome pictures from in the Ritz of Ramon looking like a poncy idiot in a bathrobe with a walking stick. That was the best part, the fact that they brought ridiculously unnecesary walking sticks to the Ritz - with all the comings and goings, and the fact that I clearly don't look like a Ritz customer, the people musta thought we were some up and coming rock stars, which would be great.

So yeah, we rather randomly decided to go back to Amhurst and harrass some hippies, which was great. One of them reminded me of Keanu Reeves, and they had legos everywhere, and their house seemed to have about 12 beds. We did not play More More More 800 times in the car, we also played Into the Groove, and I kept kicking Ramon and Otis in the head, and someone bit my foot after a while of that but I don't know who. Then the three of them (Otis, Ramon, Steph) made me hike thru the muddy wilderness in a skirt, fishnets and going-out high heel shoes, which was possibly the least cool thing to ever happen in my life.

At Amhurst, Steph and Otis, who supposedly hate each other but me and Ramon are suspicious that they are doing it, ditched the two of us for no reason and went to some diner, and so we did the same thing to them and came back and decided they were probably high, because they were soaking wet, playing with sticks, throwing things at each other, and Steph was hurling herself into a wall repeatedly. And they were laughing like psychopaths. At the train station they were laughing hysterically too, and it made me start.

I attempted to get sleep but every time we started dozing off those damn hippies would make noise or otis and Steph would start yelling really loud outside.

It was definitely the best get together we've ever had, I'd do it again every weekend if Amtrak wasn't so ridiculously priced. My dad recommended I charter a boat but that seems ostentatious.

May I recommend the Fung-Wah express? It goes from chinatown NY to chinatown Boston for like 10 bucks, runs like 5 times a day, and they drive like total lunatics so it's really fast. Plus they blast chinese radio the whole way. In New York they leave from some Buddhist temple on Canal street.

An update to the saga of Boston that seems to always come and bite us in the ass: Otis got his real license confiscated. Why? Because of that fake ID briefly mentioned above that was confiscated. What the hell kind of bouncer has nothing better to do then send in fakes? And what the hell kind of state government has nothing better to do than search DMV records til they find the person responsible and revoke their license?

1) Bring plenty of cigarettes with you.

2) Don't invite total strangers about.

3) Don't wait til you go to a hellhole like Boston to hook up with someone just cos your friends are all like pff yeah whatever.

4) Don't burn people with cigarettes in front of psychologists, it freaks them.

5) Don't use a fake ID, because the bouncers are vindictive as shit.