dinner with a non-foodie/the importance of the capitalization of proper nouns.

  • Ben: Opentable says 9:30 - that okay?
  • Midori: Omg that's late. Do you want to try calling them again and see if you can get an earlier spot?
  • Midori: There's also ten tables - it's Boston's "best affordable romantic restaurant", apparently? But if you're sold on the burger, I won't try and change that.
  • Ben: Haha you think that would be offputting to me? A little simple "romantic" restaurant?
  • Midori: ?
  • Ben: We went to Haru last week, I've had my mass market glitz/glam fix.
  • Midori: I agree.
  • Ben: So why would telling me that it's little and romantic make me not want to go?
  • Midori: No, I didn't think that...? I thought that it not having a burger would.
  • Ben: But it has a burger, the best burger, no?
  • Midori: Yes, Radius does. So I thought since Ten Tables doesn't, you wouldn't want to go
  • Ben: Oh oh oh. "ten tables" is a restaurant - I thought Radius only had ten tables in it or something.
  • Midori: LOL no. Hahaha. Aw, cutie.
  • Ben: What!
  • Midori: HAHAHA. I see what happened.
  • Ben: "There's also ten tables"
  • Ben: To a non-foodie that sounds like, "The room contains only ten tables"
  • Ben: Foodie to normal person communication fail.

Windows 7 launch & party tomorrow!

Going to Microsoft Cambridge to celebrate and check out Win7, even though most of the attendees (myself included) have already had it for a while now, hahah :P

Since it’s a bit of a special day, tomorrow’s episode of NUrd Radio is going to feature the Win7 party, and it’ll be filmed and recorded on location - I’ll be posting the video/link here, so remember to check it out!

xo, M.

Does anyone know a good cheer/gymnastics gym in Boston?

I landed on my head while doing a standing back handspring yesterday night (oops) and decided I should probably start going to tumbling classes.

…If there were any to go to in Boston. I mean, it is a city, I can’t imagine there isn’t somewhere I can go.

(In other news: Work and cheerleading preseason is eating up my life.)

Barely There, and Boston Bound

I like this kid’s way of words. It makes [no] sense in a Ginsberg or Sarkin way

And sometimes, it’s better to let someone else say it for you.

thewilliambeckett:

Barely there, and Boston bound
You’re not where I need you
I don’t care who else is around
To witness this loneliness
So I’ll paste this plastic smile in it’s proper place,
and shoot a few across the room
In secret, hoping this disguise that encases me cracks,
exposing fractions of my true face
And while the bright light fights through the space it creates
I squint and struggle to adjust my eyes to it
And in that moment I see a shape start to fill the frame
Dark and undistinguished, I try my best to sharpen focus
I hope to life to find you there,
My fabled love, the fate of fear
The fear of fate, the face of faith
I told myself I’d never pray, never ask a single thing
Wasted words, a stammer curse,
I’d give anything to hear that voice of yours say my name
Barely there, and Boston bound
You’re not where I need you
I don’t care who else is around
To witness this loneliness
Deep breaths and exhaustion sets,
While I stutter through
Another afternoon
Without you.