I'm in Boston...
...I thought I was supposed to leave the 23rd, but then I looked at my ticket. Ooops. Not only did I leave the 22nd, I left early in the morning. The airport express bus was early, so there are full garbage and recylcing bags sitting in the middle of the living room. I didn't quite have time to throw them out. But maybe one of the people taking care of my cat will take pity on my poor apartment and do it for me...but somehow I doubt it.
Tis the christmas season. I have a milllion things to be dragged along to here in Boston and a busy schedule of wrapping and tree-decorating.
4 days in Boston and 6 in Colorado. Not bad, not bad...
saw "Mona Lisa Smile" with my mother and sister yesterday. My mother had been talking about how badly she wanted to see this movie that was set 10 years before her tenure at Wellesley and starred julia roberts as the art historian prof. my mother had always wanted to be (and is). Too bad it's a terrible movie... My mom said it was pretty accurate about many things but that 1) Wellesly was always much more open to free thinking (consider: Nabokov was on the faculty in the 40's) 2) The students weren't that promiscuous and 3) Some of the marriages actually worked. Oh, and in real life they didn't have a terrible script. And Julia Stiles' accent (supposed to be mine, or maybe my mother's) was AWFUL and overdone.
I did love the following moment: Julia Roberts: "Now you don't need to own an original Van Gogh to experience...blah blah" Random Student: "Oh, we do. At the Newport house. but it's small."
I laughed a lot.
Last night I went to a Christmas party and was subjected to the sight of boys I helped corral when they were in Sunday school and about 2 feet tall...all around 16 or 17 now and over 6' tall.

I'll be pretty sporadic (in case you hadn't noticed) over the "holiday season". It's too hard to grab a good internet connection and monopolize it with all the relatives.
- posted by Heidi @ 8:38 AM