[crazyoldcatlady]

okay, so i'm going to take my mitt romney rant to the choice thread, but i just wanted to say that i can't hear his name without thinking about what my sister said to me one day when i was being a bit of a pill:

"you're about as much fun as mitt romney at a kegger."

[gumby_cc]

Yeah, I second Laurenann, what happened was pretty sweet. I had no idea it was so close a vote, either. I can't wait to hear the lovely words Mitt Romney will have to say during debates about his "heroic defeat."

[laurenann]

I was stoked to hear that the proposal was defeated - OBVIOUSLY the right decision - but I'm sick over reading the arguments and editorials and hearing everyone's stupid opinion. That this is even a topic of discussion gives me so much anxiety. Grrr. I can't take it anymore!

[anarch]

Re the amendment to ban gay marriage in MA:

"Amendment supporters may have lost one of their legislative supporters, Representative Anthony J. Verga, a Democrat from Gloucester, who slipped and fell in a State House hallway Wednesday. He was carried by stretcher to an ambulance and taken to Massachusetts General Hospital. His chief of staff said last night that the 72-year old Verga was conscious but it was not clear whether he would be able to attend Thursday’s constitutional convention."

Oooo, the schadenfreude! Heh heh HEH heh heh. (Yeah, I'm going to hell for being glad about an old geezer's physical trauma. Doesnt matter cuz I was on the way anyway.)

I may drop by the State House tomorrow around lunch time, to show support.





http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachus...on_state_house/

[gumby_cc]

maddy, i'm going vegas that weekend, otherwise my boyfriend AND I would both be going. It sounds wicked interesting, you'll have to let me know how it was afterwards : )

[maddy29]

you can check out the schedule at http://www.wheelock.edu/ppc/

"Thanks for registering for the conference on Pornography and Pop Culture to be held at Wheelock College on March 23-25. We have been overwhelmed by the interest; more than 400 people from around the country, including some from outside the U.S., will attend. The activists, anti-violence educators, academics, and concerned citizens who will be there are ready to confront the pornographic imagery that increasingly invades our lives, our relationships and our cultural landscape."

[maddy29]

anyone going to the free porn conference at wheelock college on march 24-25? i'm going-looks sooo interesting!!!!

[gumby_cc]

Welcome, Sybarite! The end of summer is a great time to be up around these parts...

[tankgirl]

yay snow! snow that isnt icy!


(btw i hate snow normally but i like it right now)

[stargazer]

Well my fellow Bostonian Busties, it looks like I will be moving to your parts at the end of the summer. I got my residency position in your neck of the woods!!

[maddy29]

gah, i spent an hour friday night with a hammer and a shovel, hammering the hell out of my sidewalk, trying to break the ice. it was SO hard! an amazing workout, i'm still sore. and i got to work out a lot of agression with the hammer.

of course, neither one of my neighbors bothered to do anything at all, so i've got like 20 feet of cleared sidewalk in between 30 feet of pure ice.....

i've been emailing and calling officials and stuff-it's just silly-every friggin' year we go through this!!! today at least they are sending people oout to ticket people who haven't salted or shoveled-even dunkin donuts and the bus stops are all iced up. no one wants to take responsibility-the city is like "it's the property owners job" or "it's the MBTA's job" and "we don't have enough resources."

I mean it's like they are SHOCKED each year when we get snow. why is this a surprise to anyone? It snows every year! But they act like we're in Florida and just don't know what to do when it snows....

[wombat]

Oh, god, that ice. My car is immured okay? and may the gods of environmentalism and feminism forgive me for buying a big bag of wretched melty crystals, and then getting my boyfriend to chop.



Cause no matter how hard i think I am, if I didn't have the salt and the boyfriend I would have to leave the car there until spring.

[anarch]

Luckily, we didn't need the car until tonight. Went out late this afternoon after the sun had been on it all day and the ice had melted enough so it came off in slabs, and the snow around the tires had compacted so no digging necessary. Phew!

Debating whether to try & get tickets for The Police show at Fenway this summer (tix on sale Tues I hear).

[laurenann]

i de-iced wednesday night around 9:30. it sucked at the time, but i was glad i got everything off while it was fresh.

[maddy29]

gah, the sidewalks are SO bad. my bus stop was just a huge sheet of ice. it made me really cranky this morning-elderly people are trying to walk, this woman had crutches, i mean, it's insane!!! they just leave it until it melts. it makes it so hard to get around.

my boyfriend's roommates car is stuck in about 4 inches of solid ice, i don't know how he's going to get it unstuck.......i'm glad i don't have a car, although i'm just a cranky pedestrian now....

[gumby_cc]

So how long did it take for everyone to de-ice their cars and get them back on the road? It took us 1.5 hours and 2 miles on the odometer (rolling back and forth). Boyfriend and I thought we were being smart by waiting until today....I don't know why we thought that

[stargazer]

it wasn't much colder than chicago. i did go to cambridge/harvard square my first night in. it was so pretty when it started to snow. we haven't gotten pretty snow in the midwest. bedford is very pretty. definitely a family oriented town. the homes are beautiful. i really liked the atmosphere. i've been to boston before, but i wanted to see more of harvard square. after my interview i went back there to have some dinner and a drink. i went to a coffeehouse 1329 (or something like that).

lunasol~i was wondering if you didn't check this place out much. oh well. who knows where i will end up for my internship. but, if i end up in boston, i will let the busties here know for sure.

[lunasol]

stargazer - i'm so sorry i missed your post! I've been pretty scarce around these bustie parts lately - have pretty much migrated to ljland. I'm bummed I missed you! Did you have a good time when you were here?

[maddy29]

yah, it's pretty cold. winter has finally hit, although without the snow...bring a hat, gloves and scarf and a warm coat and you'll be fine. although, who knows what it'll be like next week, the weather is being so weird...

definitely wander around harvard square-there are lots of great shops and restaurants.

[gumby_cc]

Today is my baby brother's birthday so I can't go for dinner...but have a great time! Bring a hat!