Boston Day 1

Boston, Boston, home of things Bostonian. Boss-ton.

I am stupid with exhaustion. Woke up at 5am to begin the trip here today. Figured I would type her up anyway or I never will. Fresh in my mind. First day. Fresh. First. First fresh.....zzzzzzzz HUH? Oh.

So yes, Tennessee and Jean-Francois kindly allowed me to tag along on their trip for some electronic conference about giant robots that build tiny robots...I am making that up unfortunately. They are here for a conference nonetheless. So I am on my own for seeing wuz up wit B to the Oston. I am probably not making a great deal of sense.

Anyway, so far, so good. Our hotel is super swank in that you can pay 5 for a can of vegetable juice plus a 3.25 delivery charge plus 15% gratuity fee plus 5% sales tax plus 1% admin fee. I am NOT kidding. Anyway, so I won't be ordering any juice but the view is awesome and we are right downtown. I can see the big, creepy Christian Scientist, U.S. headquarters. I went there to see this big stained glass, world map thing but they told me I could only go with the tour and the last tour had begun. I said:
"Well can I just join in, there's only 5 people and it just begun a minute ago."
"No, I'm sorry, it's an audio-visual tour actually and it wouldn't be fair to the people who had waited."
"By audio-visual you mean someone is talking and pointing at things?" (like what the hell was she going on about? It wasn't like some robot was shooting a laser powerpoint presentation into the sky)
"I'm sorry maam you can not join a tour that has already begun."
"So is this what Christian Science is all about?" I was pissed. Tired and pissed. Like I need someone to hold my effing hand in a big, stained glass world globe. Anyway, serves me right for trying to observe something related to religion.

Casting that off, I went for a 3 hour walk across the river and back and along the shoreline, following the 4 mile, absolutely beautiful park trail. Found my way back, got some hummus from the grocery store and head back to the hotel to crash for the evening. Saw Fox news for the first time. Geeyad! It's the sort of America that they make fun of in the Simpsons but it's not the Simpsons, it's real. Geraldo Rivera, O.J Simpson, child molesting senators...all sensationalised for entertainment value under the guise of "Hard News". I mean, why am I describing it like no one's ever heard of it. It's just that it's new to me. The U.S is new to me. It's so strange to have observed their culture my entire life through TV and movies and music and books and only just now be seeing it for real. Boston looks just like a movie set. A TV town. So American.

I feel like my head is full of hardening cement. Sooo tired. Is 7:45 too early to go to bed? I am such an elderly lady! I'm going to knit my sweater and watch more bad tv. More Boston to be observed on the morrow.