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First Night Alone

So I got here at about 12:30am on Wednesday. I unpacked, went to bed, and woke up early to get finalize my employment situation at the hospital. Afterwards, I came back to my room and started googling what I should do for dinner. I came across some "local favorites" and one of them only had "$$." I figured that $$ was better than $$$$, so I was decided why the heck not and started making my way over. Well, first.. I got on the wrong bus and sort of lost.. But eventually I found my way. Here's what it looked like on the outside, absolutely adorable: It was called "Bondir," French I think. When I walked in through that first door, I came to a tiny hallway and then had to cross through these super pretty lace curtains. Once inside, I immediated noticed how intimate the place was. There was only about 10 tables in there, and the waiting area was at a cute little fireplace. I hadn't made a reservation, but the first waiter who saw me went t...

Hello there,

Techhnically, I'm starting this blog thing because I am rather bored and annoyed by my upstairs neighbors so I need something to distract me. So, I'll give you a little breakdown of my life situation currently. Right now, I am living right outside of Boston. I have been here for a total of 4.5 days out of the 7 weeks I will be here. I am here for an internship at the Cambridge Spaulding Rehab Hospital (a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital - whoot whoot). I'm from Texas, so this whole city/public transport things it pretty foreign. And right now it is raining... so I don't quite feel like going out and about. I'm living with 2 women who have both already finished their graduate degrees and have full-time jobs - making me feel a little out of place. However, they are pretty nice and quite funny. We were able to abruptly introduce ourselves after we had to call the police on our upstairs neighbors 2 nights ago for trying to attack one of them. And now, those ...