Day 15

You guys seem eager to hear about Anime Boston. A surprisingly monumental number of people (~6-8) have actually commented on the blog's pause. So here we go.

Thursday May 23rd, 2013

Normal work day. It's honestly been too long for me to remember specifics. I probably played ping pong with Matt or Giles (not Ryan - that kid is too good for me dammit), but other than that all I remember is being very excited to go get my ANIME BOSTON BADGE!!!

For those of you who don't know anything about anime conventions (the majority of my supposed 'readers'), 9 times out of 10, you need a 'badge' to get into the convention. This badge is like your ticket. Think of it like a pass to Cedar Point. A neon green bracelet you wear to prove that you paid to get in to laser tag.

Yes, you have to pay to get into anime conventions. Yes, it's a hefty amount. I shelled out $55 for a weekend pass to AB (Anime Boston). And that's just to walk into the front door. If you buy a 2-day pass at the convention, you'll have to fork over $60 (eh, not that much more. But we're entering a whole 'nother deca (??) here).

And a badge is LITERALLY a printed slip of paper with your name on it - with a shiny sticker on it - that you hang around your neck. Or as the form was formatted for AB, "Name (as written on ID), Handle (name you want on your badge)" -- that's for people who want to be called "neko" or "dark lord-sama" or some shit. I'm just Lulu, jesus.

I left at 8:00 PM on the dot to catch Bus 1 to the Hynes Convention Center, where AB was being held. I'm sitting on the bus and I'm jittery. I'm so excited. I'm looking at my clothes, wondering if I look weird enough to be picking up a badge for an anime convention. I'm not, but that's okay because I'm so happy. All I have is a loose Hello Kitty top on. Good enough. I get off the bus and I make my way to the center. The closer I get to Hynes, the higher the saturation of WEIRD ASS PEOPLE is. My heart is beating faster and faster, I'm muttering things like "oh my god oh geez" as I approach the front doors. And when I enter, the lobby is filled with cosplayers and chubby nerds and normal people with purple and pink wigs on. I see the most color I've seen in a crowd of people in a while and I practically JUMP out of my skin in excitement.

I walk up to the Pre-Reg counter and I start getting my ID out. The girl behind the counter goes, "Oh my god I love your Hello Kitty shirt!!! I wish I could have it!"

I'm at home.

After getting my badge, I started looking through the guidebook for events and panels and shows and things like that. Nothing was happening on Thursday, so I hopped on the green line back home.

And then missed my stop. Of course.

I sat down on the train next to an Indian guy talking on his phone and started flipping through the guidebook (this thing is thick. Lots to read. Lots to plan.). As I'm looking at the schedule, the guy next to me finishes his phone call and looks over.

Him: "Is that the schedule for Memorial weekend?"
Me: "Hm? Oh, no, this is, heh, the schedule for Anime Boston."
Him: "Anime!"
Me: "Yeah, it's an anime convention happening starting tomorrow through the weekend."

I'm thoroughly embarrassed. Anime is a bit embarrassing. Regular non-anime-fan Americans usually don't get it and think it's all about the tentacle porn (NOT ANIME) and superpowered pink-haired girls (some anime).

Anyways, I started chatting with this guy. His name was Pamelov or Palemov or Pavelom or something. And he told me about the beaches around Boston and how he's been in Boston for 5 years and there are good restaurants near his stop on the green line and... "Did I miss my stop? I was supposed to get off at Kenmore." "Yep."

So I got off with him at his stop and he pointed me towards the 57 bus I was supposed to get on down the street.

As I made my way down the street, a sketch older man says, "Miss! Excuse me, miss!" Being the naive, distinctly not city girl I am, I stopped and gave him my brief attention.

Him: "Miss, when I saw you -- you really broke my heart. You - You just broke my heart --"
Me: *interrupting him* "Excuse me, I have to go."

I quickly turned and fast-walked to the bus stop. Well, that was terrifying. As I waited patiently at the correct bus stop, I saw a bus on the opposite side of the street with the bus information that I was looking for -- Correct direction, correct number -- Gee, I said to myself. That Indian guy who has lived here for 5 years might have pointed me in the wrong direction. I should get on this bus!!

I dashed across the street and just made it onto the wrong. bus. I didn't know this at first, so I sat down and waited three stops before I walked up to the bus driver and asked:

Me: "Is this bus going towards Brighton?"
Bus driver: "No."

Oh yeah, and my phone was completely dead. So I got off at the next stop and walked across the road, waited about 20 minutes, and finally got on the correct bus that took me basically to my doorstep. Geez oh wheeze.

And even after all that -- even after ALL OF THAT -- all I could think about was anime. So I made a bowl of ramen, pulled out the AB guidebook and its three 13"x17" pages of schedules, and made THIS BEAUTIFUL SCHEDULE.

Now just wait until you hear about the actual convention and not just the process of getting the goddamn badge.

Pause!

Hello! I'm pausing updates until tomorrow or Monday while I'm attending Anime Boston. Then I'll post a nice big update about all of AB.

Day 15

That was such a cop-out post for yesterday, I apologize. Who am I apologizing to!? Evan Hahn is the only one that actually reads this blog every single day, I think.

Today I woke up at a decent time and ate a yogurt in the kitchen. On the bus, I reached Part Two of Life of Pi -- and things are really starting to pick up now!! There were a few bus rides that I didn't read anything and just opted for staring out the window while listening to Jesse McCartney or Justin Timberlake or some other fruity music. I'm not very into the whole religious thing. It's not that I don't respect religion or anything -- but when I hear religion it's like hearing about politics and it kind of bores me and I think it's because I'm ignorant. So I'm trying not to be. I don't skim over the parts about religion in Life of Pi. I probably pay even more attention because I'm forcing myself to read every word he says about Hinduism and Christianity and Islam.

I got to the office and headed over to the Starbucks down the street to try an Ice White Chocolate Mocha. I usually get the hot, normal version of it, but it was warm-ish today.

I'm never getting it again!

They fill up the cup 3/5 of the way and use the ice to finish the remaining 2/5! Then they put the whipped cream ON TOP OF THE ICE and the whipped cream just kinda melts all over the ice cubes and I don't wanna drink watery whipped cream! Come on! I like whipped cream! A LOT!

I was going to make eggs this morning - trying to be healthy and what not, start the day off on a good foot blah blah blah - but to my dismay, the girl I'm subletting from doesn't own a frying pan. The family I live with is so picky about what I can (more like can't) use and where I can put my things, so I didn't want to use one of their pans and then dry it off as if it was never touched. Not in the morning anyway.

"Wipe down the stove every time you use it! Though, I don't expect you'll be using it much since you're so busy!" Basically, "We don't really expect you to use the stove or know how to cook." To me that means they probably don't want me crowding the kitchen space when they're home. So I just hide up in my room like always.

Okay -- went out of order there a little bit.

I had a really good ping-pong run with Matt today! I think I'm getting better!! We talked about younger siblings and Matt told me about his brilliant little brother who seems to be a star at everything. It was cute! Reminds me of when I talk about my sister and I'm just so proud of her and I love her and she's so much smarter than me and I'm so glad I'm her older sister abububububu <3

I also learned about WordPress today. I started a tutorial on making WP themes and I'm about halfway through it. AUUUUGHHH!!

I went out with Matt for lunch. On our way to Flat Patties, we ducked into an expensive shoe store right next door to Koa Labs. They always seem to have sales outside their store, but inside it's a whole 'nother story. We're talking shoes so expensive, you might as well not look at the price tags, 'cause you're not gonna be able to afford any of them

Matt: "Let's get out of here. I feel poor. I feel so poor. I want a $4 burger."

So we went to Flat Patties and we got our ~$4 burgers. I GOT A FISH SANDWICH!!! OH MY GOD, like a dream come true. Flat Patties is where it's at. I'm gonna go there a LOT now. They have grilled cheese, hot dogs, grilled chicken, FISH SANDWICHES. Ugh. It's disgusting how awesome this place is. I'm ready, Flat Patties, I'm ready. It's like a real fish. In my sandwich!!

Matt: "We went to Flat Patricia."

I got home relatively early again today (around 8:30 ish or so) and cracked open a Compleats Mac & Cheese. It was DISGUSTING. I couldn't eat more than 3 bites. Never again. Compleats has failed me in spaghetti and mac & cheese. It has satisfied me with it's Chicken and Noodles -- and even then it's a bit too salty.

The landlady had just finished making dinner and was assembling the family at the dinner table to eat. (I'm not invited -- I have my microwave dinner, I'm a busy girl. Busy reading comics and watching anime.) But she, so proud of the ginormous pot of soup she has made, offers me a small bowl. I stick around and eat it while standing at the counter, complementing her 1, 2, 3 times before skittering back into my room with my gross mac and cheese and tiny portion of soup. The soup was great! Too bad the landlady is not! I followed up dinner with my very last pack of Gushers. Joe says he'll bring me more when he visits. Heh. Hehehehe.

Tomorrow is TechStars Demo Day and people are probably gonna leave early for the after party and after after party. I'm going to leave early for a different, more shameful, but makes-me-too-happy reason. I'm leaving early tomorrow to pick up my WEEKEND PASS TO ANIME BOSTON.

CAN. YOU. BELIEVE. IT.

I can't wait. And I'm so, so happy that I brought my camera with me to Boston. 

Day 14

Tuesday May 21, 2013

I don't remember much of this day. This was just yesterday and geez my memory sucks. I'm gonna break this post down into a bullet point list to make it easier to digest!

• Breakfast: NONE!
• Lunch: Panera!
• Dinner: Market In The Square Sushi!
• Work! Work! Work!
• Ping pong with Matt!
• Flowers are sprouting! but most of them haven't!
• STAR TREK!!!

• "It's just that end of the day 'I want popcorn' time." - @alexschiff #fetchquotes
  — Fetchnotes (@fetchnotes) May 22, 2013

• Waiting for the subway on our way to Star Trek! twitter.com/lubibul/status…
  — Lulu Tang (@lubibul) May 22, 2013 

• Star Trek was fantastic! I arrived with Schiff and Ryan and shared a refilling large popcorn with Schiff. We sat in the 2nd row of the theatre. It was very close to the screen. Everything was distorted, but it was still so good.
• Got home and finished reading Saga, one of the comics I bought at Million Year Picnic. FANTASTIC. I'm gonna go get volume 2 now!!
• Sleep!

Day 13

Homesickness hit me like a cold brick today on the bus home, looking at a man dressed in traditional African clothing talking on his smartphone and staring at this Rolex. He looked confused, constantly watching the LED screen at the front of the bus and asking the bus driver questions. For whatever reason, this made me homesick for sitting on the couch with my sister at home while we watched 2NE1 videos, and going out to dinner with Joe and him telling me not to order the ice cream for dessert, and walking to class to sit next to Meredith during another 281 lecture.

I've been having weird nightmares recently. The Kidnapper Evan type of 'nightmare', if you can even call it that. Not sure why. Pretty sure it has something to do with the way my foot is positioned on the bed and the yelling in the house and the creepy old guys that look at me at the bus stop when I go home late.

I've been tripping up on posting to this blog too. I'm sure it's affected by the fact that I keep forgetting to make my bed and the increasingly messier desk I come home to. Once I lose routine, I lose everything -- so I have to get back into good habits and structure.

But TODAY...!

Today I got to work and brought a Key Lime Pie Yoplait, which made my stomach hurt later on. Fun fact: Every Asian is at least slightly lactose intolerant! I pulled this fact out of my butt, so it's probably not 100% true. But every Asian that I know - and I know a lot - is slightly lactose intolerant. Some can't drink any milk (Joe), and some can, but either fart a lot afterwards or get stomach aches (me).

I played ping-pong with Matt again today! Speaking of ping-pong, the rankings list on the whiteboard got ERASED by some DEVIL. I don't know who thought it was a cool move to get rid of that list, but it wasn't cool, dude. Nope. Anyways, while Matt was helping me practice, Ryan came in and CHALLENGED ME.

Ryan: "Ehh, I'm not very good."

I thought this meant he was on the same level as I was before I trained hardcore with Matt. In some ways, that's true, in others -- he BEAT ME TO A PULP.

Ryan kept hitting the ball REAL HARD and RIGHT AT ME (like, I guess you're supposed to...) and I lost 3 games in a row real bad. I will beat you someday Ryan!! I WILL! I just... have to learn to aim!

For lunch, Greg (the mechanical engie from matter.io), Matt, and I went out to lunch at "Crema Cafe", which has little cakes. I didn't buy any this time, but I'll be back very soon. I got a grilled cheese and some soup that I don't know the name of.

Me: "And... what kind of soups do you have?"
Cashier: "blah blah blah, blah blah, blah cream blah."
Me: "I'll take that last one then."

Thankfully it was chock full of veggies and tasted really good! The grilled cheese was meh. I'll get a real sandwich next time.

Other than that, work happened. Tomorrow we might be going out to see Star Trek or The Great Gatsby as a team! 

Day 12

Today, I had three things on my plate.

1. Do chores for the landlady 
2. Go to the Japan Festival
3. Hang out with Matt

1. Doing chores for the landlady

Ughhhh. Shouldn't have worn a tank top for this. Every week, I have to help the landlady with some kind of chores around the house/yard as part of the agreement. My rent's super cheap and my parents are happy that I'll be learning some "real life skills" by doing chores. So I raked dead leaves out from under these really tall bushes and I got scratched up all over the place. YARD WORK IS THE WORST. 

2. Go to the Japan Festival

This is a free event set up between Boston and the Consulate General of Japan in the Boston City Hall plaza. I wouldn't have known about it if Anime Boston didn't say they were selling Pre-Reg tickets there. It was pretty much what I expected: lots of little booths for selling Japanese knick-knacks, food, cloth, and other stuff. Also...

Lots of, uh, weird people hanging around. I saw cosplayers, Japanese school girls, kimonos & yukatas, a lot of fat people with cat ears, a lot of fat people with pikachu ears (and tails), Aperture Science shirts, girls in maid outfits, boys taking pictures with the girls in maid outfits, Marvel shirts, and MORE!

(my god, I'm terrible at formatting pictures on BlogSpot)

They were also holding performances on stage. According to the program, there were some J-pop performers, so I seated myself at 2:25 to watch YUSA Band. I expected some crazy dude to go running around stage with an awesome bass riff and girls singing the chorus and lots of pikapika and kirakira. I got a dude in a wheelchair singing folk tunes and a string quartet. Hmmmmm okay... I guess that's still J-pop? He was good, don't get me wrong, but I was a little disappointed, is all.

Overall, the Japan Festival was a bust for me. Probably would've been more fun if I went with someone slightly interested in Japanese stuff (Joe), but I think the event was mostly for families and nerds anyways. 

After a very long train/bus ride, I arrived at the team apartment.

3. Hang out with Matt

YAYY! I got to the team apartment and Matt and Mike were home. Mike was, of course, shirtless and hacking the mainframe and all that. Matt was still sick. I made some eggs (hahahahaha stealing their food...) and ate a banana then sang a diddy (Snails by The Format) while Matt played his crazy guitar tunes. Afterwards, we played some old skool kool games. Well, mostly Matt played them and I sucked at them.

Super Mario 2: wasn't originally a Mario game, so Matt says, "It's just weird. I don't know what's going on. Look at this."

Super Mario 3: Matt and I would switch between Mario and Luigi and Matt would just beat the levels and I'd just die over and over again until we moved maps. I never realized how bad I was at Mario!!! Geez!!

Dr. Mario: Okay, I did alright in this one. Matt was obviously way better and beat me every single time, but this game is similar enough to Tetris that I did... okay. I usually didn't top off, Matt just beat me first every time. Oh yeah and when I asked Matt for some "Tips and Trix" he just says, "The winner gets to play the synth with this button." Not a tip, nor a trick, Matt.

After Dr. Mario, we watched Anchorman. I'd never watched it before (which is, whoa! what? you've never seen Anchorman!? Oh my god!!! OKAY, WELL NOT I HAVE, YA DINGDONGS.) and it was funny and I'd heard half of the lines before from Tumblr and the general Internet. It was okay. Probably just 'okay' because the world had been hyping this movie up so much and because I'd heard half of the movie before watching it. But now I'll understand all the references.

Okay, after seeing all these gifs, I'm thinking the movie was pretty good.

After Anchorman, I bused home and a scary Mexican guy with a wandering eye and a moustache waved hello to me at the bus stop and then chuckled.

Day 11

Saturday May 18th, 2013

I went grocery shopping this morning. My weekly grocery trip, I guess. I can't carry too much stuff by myself and I don't have a car, so I can't get that many things each time I go to "Star Market". I'll probably have to go every week just to survive. Heh. Survival.

I first stopped by the CVS down the street to compare prices. Most of the stuff was either the same price or slightly more expensive. The only difference is that everything in CVS comes in a smaller package. I couldn't find the ramen in Star Market, so I knew I had to buy some at CVS (ramen is a STAPLE, guys). I found the shelf with all the ramen and I grabbed 4 packs. Then I thought about it a little bit more... and grabbed another 4 packs. And that was all I bought at CVS. When I went to the self checkout, the lady next to me just stared at my stack of 8 ramen packs, probably thinking, "... college kids."

Grocery shopping is so uneventful, and I always bring my iPod for the bus stop waiting time. I like to sing if I'm the only one there (which is most of the time). I'm a crraazyyyy~!

I think my body isn't used to going to sleep at regular times anymore. It doesn't know what to do if I'm not sleep deprived, so it likes to just... fall over on the bed and sleep in the middle of the day. I wouldn't even call these 2 hour long 'sleeps' naps. They're not naps. They come with dreams and I get all hot cause I slept in walking clothes. Today I had a horrible nightmare.

Evan was a kidnapper. And not just a kidnapper, a child rapist. He had a gang that would drive around in a van and kidnap, I guess. It was my family's job to catch him. So we climbed into his van and I just started YELLING at him. Just like yelling and yelling and yelling and yelling. And the whole dream was me yelling. When I woke up, I felt like such a horrible person.

I'm pretty sure the dream was influenced by how much yelling happens in this house. The landlady yells at her daughter all the time (like any asian mom would), but she also yells at her own 90 year old mother. What's up with that!? It's your own mother, lady! She can barely walk up the stairs, let alone fight back! I can't even sit on the bed and read Life of Pi peacefully because there's always some kind of commotion happening. People fighting -- but mostly the landlady telling off one of her relatives. It makes me feel like I'm in middle school again, back at home, listening to my mom yelling at everyone in the house. It's not very relaxing.

Anyways, after my weirdly long afternoon nap, I got up and told myself to do something productive. So I did  something I've been wanting to do ever since I got to Boston: HIT UP ALL THE COMIC BOOK SHOPS!!!

I hopped on the next bus to Harvard Square and pulled up my list of comic book store addresses on my Fetchnotes and started going for them.

1st Stop: "The Garage"
This place is a mini mall that has a small food court and some weird hipster shops. It used to be a parking garage, so there's a random ramp up the middle of the mall. That's cool. There are two comic book stores here, Anime Zakka and Newbury Comics.

Anime Zakka: disappointing. Almost all of the merch was Ghibli Studio stuff (mostly Totoro) and pretty much all of it was from China -- so, cheap quality figurines, terrible paint jobs, ugh. Don't get me wrong, I love Ghibli, but that's not the only anime out there.

Newbury Comics: better. I didn't expect much from Newbury because it's a general comic store (which means pretty much only American comics). They had a lot of cool Minecraft stuff and a bunch of super cute superhero Pop! figurines. I almost got an Adventure Time one for $10, but realized I wasn't that invested in it, so I didn't lay out the money. Newbury is a lot bigger.

I got Subway on the bottom floor of The Garage and then went out to the next place.

2nd Stop: "Million Dollar Picnic"
Apparently this is the oldest comic book store in Cambridge/Boston/not sure, but it's old. The store is very small, but it's PACKED with comics. No figurines (well, a few) but this is the store that sparked my excitement. The cashier was an old black dude in a red shirt who was very chill. I spent a ton of time in here just looking flipping through books with good cover art. It's hard to pick something to buy when you're inundated with choices. I walked out with issues #3 and #4 of the Fionna and Cake series and Volume One of the supposedly popular (according to the cashier) Saga.

Fionna and Cake are SO funny. I haven't read Saga yet.

That's it, though. I actually didn't go to many stores at all (three). Unfortunately most of the anime shops around Cambridge have been shut down because people keep pirating episodes online. Eheh. Damn.

I got home and watched some Oreimo and chatted with Joe and people.

Comic books. Yeah~.

Day 10

Hey folks, forgot to write this last night (er, well, I kind of konked out pretty early last night).

Today we had a casual meeting in the ping pong room. 2 people sat on the couch, 2 people stood, and I sat on an upside down orange bucket while Schiff talked.

Anyways, after that, I went out to get coffee with Matt and Ryan. I think this might turn into a daily thing. I'm all for drinking a mocha EVERY. MORNING. ♥ I found out that Matt also needs to eat breakfast every day, unlike some of the weirdos at Fetchnotes (Alex, Ryan ahem), so we headed to Au Bon Pain. I got another 2 Egg Sandwich, but THIS TIME with a sausage patty in it! There was some bald guy there that was taking orders for some reason and I had to give him a name so, of course, my instinct was to go for Debra. Ughhhhhh. Matt got a 2 Egg and Cheese Sandwich.

While we were walking back to the office, a homeless guy was like "Hey!" and then Matt goes "Heyyy!" back. This little exchange isn't as funny when it's written down, but it cracks me up because I'm very a little scared of homeless people.

So Giles seems to be quite the aficionado when it comes to 3D modelling! He brought a model for the guys at matter.io to print (a little dome shaped thing). The first time it tried to print, it didn't quite work out, so there were just a bunch of little plastic legs of the dome. While it was printing the second time, Giles gave me one of the legs to look at and it was super cool! This is not the point of the story though -- This is: When we went to back to our seats at the table, I handed Giles the leg again and said "Here's your leg back."

Giles: "Oh, good. I wouldn't be able to walk without it."

Me: *distracted by the internet* "What?"

Giles: "I said, oh, good. I wouldn't be able to walk without it."

Me: *distracted again* "What?"

Giles: "Oh my gosh, it's a terrible joke and you're making me repeat it again??"

Me: "I'm listening this time! I'm listening! Tell it again!"

Giles: "I SAID," *deadpan*, "Oh, good. I wouldn't be able to walk without it."

Me: "That was terrible."

Giles: "I KNOW. And you made me say it THREE TIMES."

Later, Matt taught me a some basics in ping pong! I improved a lot within that half hour 'session' with the coach. In the middle of our 'lesson', Kelsey (♂) , one of the managers of Koa Labs or something (I'm not really sure, but he plays a lot of ping pong) challenges Matt to a 1-1, Matt's serve. Whoever wins, gets $10. 

Matt: *laughing maniacally* "What? Yeah, sure!"

Matt serves the ball.

Kelsey hits it back.

Matt's face gets real serious for about half a second and he SLAMS the ball. 

Kelsey loses.

I never thought I'd get into the ping pong culture of the office, but now that I can actually hit the ball about 70% of the time, if you go slow, I want to start moving up and improving!! RARRRGHHHH!!!

Giles challenged me again today and I BEAT HIM!

#koalife "I won ping pong against Giles 11-10!" - @lubibul. "You have to win by 2…" - @matthewbrandly "GET UP. NOW." - @gilesvangruisen
— Alex Schiff (@alexschiff) May 17, 2013

Consistently the worst ping pong player in the office. Word.
— Giles Van Gruisen (@gilesvangruisen) May 17, 2013

Here's the abbreviated rankings list on the white board right now (or, something close to it. I have a bad memory. There's a reason I use Fetchnotes.)

1. Horak
2. Schiff
3. Matt
...
...
9. Giles
...
12. Lulu

I'm at the very bottom of the list. Even though I beat Giles, I can't move up because you can only count challenges within 2 ranks of you. DAMMIT GILES!!!!!

Earlier that day, this exchange happened:
Me: "I watched Iron Man 2 last night!"
Giles: "You should go out and explore the city more." = "You should really get out more."
Matt: *starts cracking up*

DAMMIT GILES!!!!!

I got home relatively early today, around 8:40 PM, dicked around on the internet for a bit, Hung Out with Joe, then took a 10 minute nap, which turned into an hour-long nap, which turned into sleep.

Day 9

Today I woke up a little late so I didn't have time to eat breakfast at home. Plus I'm out of Dunkin Donuts munchkins so I couldn't bring any of those. I got to the office and went to Starbucks with Ryan and then this hackstar named Michelle came in and brought DONUTS FROM THE CIDER MILL. My lucky lucky day!!!!

It was weird to come in this morning and have half the team missing (Horak went to Germany, Giles is back at home, and Mike came in late after that crazy night).

This guy from matter.io (3D printer OS) named Greg showed me their bamf 3D scanner and then made me a 3D orange octopus that I named Lulupus! I put it on my head and then it fell off and lost a limb, though, so I renamed it to just Tom.

That donut must have filled me up, because I didn't get hungry again until around 6:30 PM. Matt, Ryan, and I went out to get some Pinkberry when suddenly... A FIRE ALARM GOES OFF!!!

Matt: Paid for a smoothie, was waiting for server Brittany to finish making it.
Me: Paid for a froyo, got a froyo.
Ryan: Got a froyo, was about to pay for it.

Ryan ended up with a free froyo and Matt waited a while for his smoothie while some firefighters sauntered into Pinkberry and found, I'm guessing, no fire.

Almost died in the Great Pinkberry fire of 2013 with @matthewbrandly and @lubibul.
— Ryan Gonzalez (@ryngonzalez) May 16, 2013

Nothing much else happened today. My bus was about an hour late (what the hey) and I'm about to watch Iron Man 2 with Joe over Skype. I had my first microwave dinner in Boston - some "Chicken and Noodles" stuff which was too salty but still good! And now I'm eating my knock off Apple Jacks cereal.

That was a short post. Here's a picture of Matt:

Day 8

Whew, well - got back home pretty late today. It's 12:54 AM as I'm typing this. Let's start.

I woke up this morning, no grandma in sight. She must've been up too late watching TV last night. I brought a day-old "Cherry Pastry" from Panera to work for breakfast. I start to eat it and Horak starts talking to me about how he's reading my blog (I see you, Horak) and how I don't eat healthy. I take a bite into my Cherry Pastry, the excess cherry filling oozes out and drops onto the paper plate I'm holding. "Uh huh," I say. Horak starts talking about how he started eating healthy because of Mike as he starts prepping his yogurt and grain and protein-whatever-blah-blah healthy breakfast on the counter. I nod as I take another bite into my Cherry Pastry. It's not looking as yummy anymore. The filling is too sweet all of a sudden. I start purposely squeezing it out so that it sits on the edge of my plate - I ain't eating it anymore. This exchange continues until I have devoured the whole pastry sans filling.

I'll buy some fruits over the weekend.

Today Ryan came in and worked with us!! Apparently he reads my blog, too (I see you, Ryan). Horak's leaving tomorrow for Germany ( ｡：ﾟ(｡ﾉω＼｡)ﾟ･｡ ) and Ryan will be here until he gets back - as well as after he gets back.THE DESIGN TRIO IS HERE! WE ARE THE TRINITY! WE ARE THE POWER! JK, it's mostly just Ryan and Giles doing the hard work - I just draw dogs.

For lunch, I went out with Horak to Panera and FINALLY GOT MY GRILLED CHEESE!!! Oh, you beautiful food. Everyone laughed as I ate it. I'll be the last one laughing, you fools!! Horak got a salad (blech) off the '~*~*hidden menu*~*~'.

Here's a picture I took while I went on a Starbucks towards the end of the day:

Boston why twitter.com/lubibul/status…
— Lulu Tang (@lubibul) May 15, 2013

And here's a thing that happened today:

.@alexschiff: "Lulu, what does ROI stand for?" @lubibul: "... Retail Octopus Integration."
— Fetchnotes (@fetchnotes) May 15, 2013

Anyways, we did our weekly team dinner tonight! Took a train to the humble Chinatown and ate at New Jumbo (a seafood restaurant).

It was delicioso! Until Mike got an allergic reaction to the seafood!!!!!!!! At the end of the meal, Mike starts feeling hot and not-so-hot and we're all very scared (since he went to the hospital earlier that year for food-related things). Matt was going to watch Iron Man 3 with his cousin in about 10 minutes and we were originally all going to go with him, but y'know -- Mike, hospital, allergic reaction, no good.

We walk outside for some fresh air and then Mike's like "I need a bathroom." So Horak escorts him hurriedly back into the restaurant for bathroom time.

Matt: *still worried* "I need to meet my cousin, like, now. Is anybody coming with me? Anyone?"
(please note that all the dialogue on this blog is paraphrased. I can't remember what people say exactly!)

Faces turn towards Mike's back and back to Matt. I'm like "Uh er me!" and we start walking briskly down the streets of Chinatown until we're not in Chinatown anymore.

Matt: "He'll probably be fine in a bit. By the time the paramedics arrived last time, he was already feeling fine."

We get into the theater and I meet Matt's cousin Jordan and his friend that I can't remember the name of. She's a female.

Before the actual movie had even started, Ryan sends Matt a text: "We're taking him to the hospital." AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

It wasn't until 4/5 of the movie was done that we heard from Ryan again: "Just got out of the hospital."
And Horak: "Mike benched the doctor."
PHHHHEEEWWWWWWW!!!

I don't know what that means, but there was a video attached to Horak's text and I can't open it for some reason. I can only imagine Mike lifting the doctor like a dumbbell. The team uses so much Cool™ Lingo, I have a lot to learn.

After the movie (which was, ugh, fantastic even the 2nd time around), Jordan/Matt offered me a ride in Jordan's car. As we drove back to Brighton, which is very close to where Jordan and his friend live, Jordan talked a lot with me. I was pleasantly surprised that I wasn't ignored like in most stranger-driving-me-home situations. He offered me lots of advice about the surrounding area and also told me get a fake ID. And also,

Jordan: "Okay, so spill about Matt. What does he do? What kind of bad things can you tell me that I can tell our grandma? You're not his girlfriend are you? Does he have a girl?"

I honestly don't know too much about Matt, and the worst thing I could think of was the fact that he cheys. So I divulge this information (with SOME RELUCTANCE, I GUESS) and also the fact that he plays a shitton of different instruments. I think Matt's cool. I'm sorry Matt for blowing your cover if you had one.

Jordan shows me where he lives, right past the baseball field, and points out a bunch of "great bars". I'm not going to any bars anytime soon, so, there's that, but Jordan's friend offers to get me a fake ID. I just laugh. I laughed a lot. It's a nervous tick and I also think things are (really) funny when they're really just mediocre at best.

Anyways, we get to my house at about 12:40 AM and came home to the mom watching a Chinese soap opera downstairs. Ummm... It's kinda late, lady... Okay...

Oh also, it was nice to come home to the beautiful GQ cover with RDJ on my desk. Hi Mr. Downey Jr., sir. Yes, you are very attractive.

Day 7

This morning, I woke up, stumbled out of my room in my pajamas - hair all a mess, vision still blurry, no bra on, eyes half closed - and the grandma in the house was like:

[in Chinese] "Lulu!? Is that you? I need some help!! The TV won't turn on again!!!"

I was like "Wha? What? What's going on? Oh, TV. Okay, oh. Not turning on. Right."

[in Chinese] "Okay, hang on a second. I'll help you in a bit!"

After showering and brushing my teeth (and putting on a bra), I went down and helped her. Turns out the internet was out and I just had to restart the router so that their little Chinese TV Box thing would work. But geez. If I haven't been around that morning to restart the internet and try out a bunch of stuff, there's no way grandma would know how to get the TV working.

Grandma: [in Chinese] "Oh thank you thank you!! I was worried I would have nothing to do all day!"

Do your old people do anything besides TV? I feel like watching TV in old age is a very Chinese thing. Every Chinese elder I know watches TV all day -- and only TV all day.

Oh, and then I got a chocolate muffin from her in return.

I started reading Life of Pi again today. It's really good! I feel like I'm learning how to speak and think all over again. Reading does that to you. I no good at read. The interesting thing about reading is the way I think after I read something. My internal voice starts talking to me like the voice in the book or article I just read and it's a cool state of mind.

Decision: I'm going to read on the bus from now on. I thought I would get carsick, but I didn't, so I'm gonna read LOTS OF THINGS!

Side note:

Doggy on the bus <3333 twitter.com/lubibul/status…
— Lulu Tang (@lubibul) May 14, 2013

I bought a GQ Magazine today -- I saw it last night while I was waiting for the bus. It caught my eye because

ROBERT DOWNEY JR.

was on the cover.

Fun fact: I love this guy. Also I like Iron Man. Also I LOVE Iron Man. ALSO I'M GONNA WATCH IRON MAN 2 TONIGHT. ALSO I'M GONNA WATCH IRON MAN 3 AGAIN.

It was worth the 5 bucks I spent. Since GQ is for men, there're lots of pictures of women AND men, which makes for really great drawing practice. (Also RDJ is just pretty.)

For lunch, I tried "Au Bon Pain" today. I dunno what it means, but I know that they don't put enough salt in their 2 Egg Breakfast Sandwhich or their Broccoli Cheddar Soup! Nonetheless, it was pretty good. I almost went to Panera again (for revenge on the missing grilled cheese...), but figured I should try something slightly different since I am in Boston or something.

Matt got a haircut today and it looks ULTRA CUTE!!! Which brings me to my worry: I think I may be getting a little overexcited around my coworkers lately. I have to tone it down or else I'll turn into an annoyance.

(but Matt's hair so fluffy, I want my hair to look like that!!)

Speaking of haircuts, I might get one soon. My bangs are getting real fugly and I ain't happy about it.

Here's a photo I took today at the bus stop:

And here's the sloth I promised from yesterday:

Laptop sloth twitter.com/lubibul/status…
— Lulu Tang (@lubibul) May 14, 2013

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go watch some Iron Man 2 while Skyping with Joe.

Day 6

Walking around Harvard Square today I realized that Cambridge is a lot less crowded than I thought it would be. The buses aren't packed, the streets aren't swarming, sometimes you can even jaywalk and not get hit by a car! Maybe if I go to downtown Boston I'll get the crowd I'm looking for.

Today was colder than the past few days ---- also just got a popup that Horak just started playing TF2. Mine is still updating from the version I had 34098145 years ago ---- ANYWAYS. I definitely shouldn't have worn leggings. 'twas chilly.

As per usual, I missed the early bus leaving for work and the earlier bus right after leaving from work. As per usual, I am a bumbling idiot in the city. Is the name of this blog "Baby in Boston" starting to make a little sense now? Why is public transportation so HARD!?! At least I didn't get lost on my way to the office like my last work-day. Actually I found it with quite a bit of ease ehehehe [my proudest moment].

I'm a CITY GIRL twitter.com/lubibul/status…
— Lulu Tang (@lubibul) May 13, 2013

Not much happened today other than work. Mike bought a roll of 'Twine'© (this is a new word to me, but I get it) a while back to attach his monitor to a back of a chair. When that plan fell through, the twine was just sitting there on the table and Mike said I could use it... So I started making a lanyard for my house keys with it. Almost done, too! Probably gonna finish that before I go to bed. I'll post pictures -- I know you're all very excited to see my middle school camp lanyard project.

That was sarcasm.

Okay okay, so get this!! For dinner, I went to Panera (oh goodness I'm so happy there's a Panera here). Panera was right next to a Qdoba, just like it is on North Campus back in Ann Arbor. I'm starting to think they're partnered up or something! BUT THAT'S NOT MY POINT. I ordered a broccoli cheddar soup and a grilled cheese. I walked out with a broccoli cheddar soup and... and... A SALAD!?!?!

Listen. LISTEN. I don't even know what kind of salad this was. And I didn't realize it until I got back to the office. I was in despair!! It had ONIONS AND GREENS AND DECIDEDLY NO CHEESE. My coworkers were very nonchalant.

Horak: "Just go back and tell them they got your order wrong and they'll give you a grilled cheese."
Brandly: "You walk in with a salad, and then you get to keep the salad while you eat your grilled cheese."
Mike: "..."
Schiff: "hehahaha!"

I admit it! I admit it! I'm lazy! And it was cold outside! So I put it in the fridge and... forgot it there. I'll throw it out tomorrow, I promise. ("Lulu, just eat the goddamn salad, jesus christ.")

While waiting for the bus home, I sat in Starbucks and worked on my Twine© lanyard. When I got home I started a download for TF2 so I could play with Joe and Horak. The reason TF2 is suddenly in the picture is because they have one of the best, funniest blogs I've ever read. I don't read a lot, so I guess it's not saying much, but pretty much every blog post on the Team Fortress page makes me laugh.

Of course, I'm still waiting for TF2 to finish updating as I write this and catch up on Girls With Slingshots.

Ah, also, I made a monitor sloth for Matt today. Er, this make sound weird out of context. I'll take a picture tomorrow.

And one more thing, Ananth, writer of Johnny Wander and Apple Geeks, TOTALLY FAVORITED A TWEET I MENTIONED HIM IN:

It tickles me pink that my favorite webcomickers all interact like old war buddies @ananthymous @boxerhockey twitter.com/lubibul/status…
— Lulu Tang (@lubibul) May 14, 2013

Day 5

Today was uh... today I walked a lot.

I did my very first solo grocery trip and bought half of what I needed, because the milk and shampoo were way too heavy to carry around. (Little known fact: I'm really weak.) Of course, I missed the bus that would take me there from the stop next to my house. But, you know, it's early in the morning, I should explore for a bit, so I just started walking along the bus route.

The number of Dunkin Donuts in Boston astounds me. Even as I was walking down some random street (well, probably not too random since a bus route goes through there), I found a Dunkin Donuts and stopped in for a box of Munchkins and a "Coolatta". TIL Coolattas are WAY too sweet, even for me. Why oh why did I ask for that extra whipped cream?



When I got on the bus that I had missed earlier, I swear the bus driver said "Any day now..." as I scanned my card. Hey! What the heck man!!! You calling me slow!?

Anyways, after my grocery trip, I got back to the house and found that my subletter person left Life of Pi on her bookshelf, so I started reading it a little bit. Aaaaand then I started a new TV show by Joss Whedon (after Firefly, I'm a huge Joss Whedon fangirl) called Dollhouse. I swear I'm going to finish that book though. Books. Reading. The bane of my existence?

Horak texts me about a water fight, so of course I miss it and respond almost an hour later (but somehow the party is still going?), so I hopped on a bus and went to the team's house around 5. But as soon as I showed up, Horak's like, "Heyyy!! I'm leaving now to go play some tennis!"

I walk back to the team apartment with Horak and walk in to see Matt... feeling sick!!! OH NO!!! So we made the remaining 4 eggs in the fridge and some Tofurky, then watched a few episodes of Adventure Time. I didn't want to intrude, but... I had traveled all the way up and getting home was not an easy trip... I have an excuse, right? Right??

When Horak, Schiff, and Mike all came home, Horak and I started watching Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, and eventually the whole team sans Schiff was on the couch in front of the laptop. I've never watched Star Wars and it was cool! The buildings and designs are so. DOPE. And Horak kept calling these farting camel things Lulus. My name is Lulu.

I left after the movie was over around 10:45 maybe? BUT ALAS, I GET LOST AGAIN. Well, not exactly. I got to Harvard Square alright, but then I couldn't find the bus stop for bus 66 and watched somberly as it zoomed past me into the night. So... Here we go -- I walked along the bus route again and eventually caught a 66 along the way, with some panicked help from Joe and lots of fast walking to avoid... hobos.

Well, I'm home now, so all is well and I'm writing this post. But I... Man. I walked a LOT today.

Day 4

Saturday May 11th, 2013 (now we're caught up with dates)

Today was move-in day. Time for me to move out of the team's apartment and into my room at some Chinese lady's house. It was a struggle, but I think we're gonna be alright.

Let me tell you what a terrible morning this was. My mom calls me at 10 AM (and after a night like last night's, I was tiiiired). I groggily pick up the phone and listened drowsily as she scolded me to call the landlady "RIGHT NOW".

The original plan was this:
Horak and I wake up whenever we wake up. We take my luggage, one for each of us (the big one for Horak cause I sure as hell ain't strong enough) and then hop on the bus down to Brighton. We come back up and chill.

What ended up happening was this:
I called the landlady and it turned out she was leaving at noon and wouldn't be back until late. She wanted me to get to the house before noon and get the keys from her before she left. Since the buses run weirdly on the weekends, I called a taxi, which arrived 15 minutes later than it should've (I waited half an hour for this goddamn taxi). Then when I finally got into the taxi, the driver asked if I knew how to get there and had me feed him directions from my phone even though he had a GPS right up front. What the hell?

I finally got to the house at 11:30ish with my purse and my little luggage dude. Then I hopped on bus 86 and got off at Harvard Square. At this point, I grabbed a donut from one of the dozens of Dunkin Donuts in the area and found a comic book store. OooooOOoooHhhh~! So things were looking up. I couldn't stay long since the bus back to the team apartment was coming so I left without really looking, but I am definitely going back to that store.

K. So I get back to the team apartment and now it's just one more luggage guy to take to the house. I wait in the light rain without an umbrella for bus 69 to get to the stop. Some chick tells me her app says it won't come for another 20 minutes even though Google Maps said it would be there in 1 minute. I end up dragging my luggage through the rain (thankfully, light rain) 15 minutes north to catch a bus all the way down to Brighton. I'm reaaaaaaal grumpy.

But alas!! I get off the bus in the right place and drag my luggage that one last stretch home. As soon as I got in, I took off my pants and laid on the mattress for literally 15 minutes.

After Skyping with Joe for a bit, I konk out for 2.5 hours. Then I spend the next 2 hours locked in my room because I'm scared of the family I'm living with. (Human interaction, Lulu no good).

At this point, I'm STARVING. But... How could I leave!? I'd have to talk with the landlady and her 11 year old kid and that grandma that's randomly there. Irrationally scared out of my wits, I devoured a pack of Gushers.

My mom calls while I'm unpacking all my clothes around 9:30... then proceeds to freak out that I haven't eaten anything except a donut. ALL. DAY. Mommm calm downnnnnnn, I'm just an idiot...

After pumping myself up to Meet The Family, I meet the family. First it's just the grandma, who was having trouble turning on the television. Then the landlady and her daughter come home and see me with my purse and jacket on.

Landlady: "You're going out right now?" (it's like already 10 at this point)
Lulu: "Well, I was just going to get something to eat and then be right back."

This won't do, she says, and offers me some food that is somehow already on the kitchen table. After declining a few times, I finally give in. It's dark outside and it's probably going to rain again if I go out and I'll most likely get lost. I end up eating with the family and she tells me a bunch of stuff about the house and her family's schedule and what not.

The little girl's name is Libby. I only know this because it's all over her door, which also has signs that say:

"No Populars!!!!" Like, OMG! Like, Totally~!!
"No Boys!!!! Only girls and moms, grandmas, and girl cousins allowed!!!!"

You know, typical 5th grade stuff on a door. Interestingly enough, there are no males in this house.

Anyways, one of the first things Libby says to me is, "Do you like Taylor Swift!?!??!!", really excitedly. I say "YES!" and she gets even more excited. Turns out this 11-year-old girl is going to a TSwift concert sometime soon. What?! 11-year-olds go to concerts!?!?!?! dafuq??

They ask me about my job at Fetchnotes, so I demonstrate the app and Libby thinks Swype is hella cool. She asks if she can play with my keyboard and I say sure, so she spends the rest of the dinner playing with my Swype on Fetchnotes and Temple Run.

I think I could get used to the house. Libby's really cute and nice. She goes to a Catholic school which she says is "psh easy" and she seems like a spunky kinda kid. I'm cool with letting her adopt me as her older sister for the summer.

After dinner, I finished cleaning up my room and setting things up. Probably gonna go to sleep early tonight so I can see what's happening around this area in the morning. Find some food that my landlady didn't cook for me. You know.

Day 3

Friday May 10th, 2013

I was determined not to be late to work this morning -- also to get some breakfast. The sunlight woke me up at 8:30, I was in the shower by 9 and out the door by 9:30. According to Matt, we don't have to get to work until 11 (preferably before 11), so I took my time to take a walk around the streets and find my way to work by myself.

I got lost. Duh.

See, I got to Harvard Square successfully. But I had the wrong address for our office. The one I had pointed to a random spot between two streets that had no buildings. I stared at my Google Maps for a whole hour, walking around looking for our office, recognizing places from yesterday, but NOT OUR OFFICE. Finally, I texted Matt with an "Oh geez I'm lost" and he gave me the correct address.

Work happens.

Lunch: Chipotle.

More work happens.

At some point, I was getting a little restless and wanted to go outside for a bit. So I did. Unfortunately, it was after the outer doors had locked to the office and I was locked out without my phone.

@lubibul got locked out of the building, so naturally she attempted to scale the wall and climb in via the roof #theFetchnotesDifference
— Fetchnotes (@fetchnotes) May 10, 2013

About half way up that wall, I stopped and realized maybe I was being a little dangerous. I went to the Market In The Square next door and used a dude's phone to call my own. Schiff finally picked up after the third call and I got back in.

I finally catch a bus home with Horak, Matt, and Mike at about 8:30, 9 ish. We get home, and I sing some "Snails" by The Format with Matt's funky guitar skills.

Horak is itching to be outside that night, so him and I decided to take a walk. Horak, Matt, and I 'chey'd and then... this is where things get interesting.

While going down the stairs Horak talked about how he thinks we could be father and daughter. I said, no way. We get out the door and he, being the charismatic fellow he is, stopped a young man on the sidewalk and asked him "How old do you think she is?"

I put on my most childish face and pose and he guessed 20. WHAT THE HELL. I'm 19, turning 20. He then guessed Horak's age right, and we got his age right.

Horak: "Would you like to go on a walk with us?"
Ryan (this kid): "Well, uh... Sure! My roommates are asleep anyways."

We started walking and talking with Ryan to wherever and ended up in a sort of shady part of town. Later, Ryan told us that this is where he got a little scared that we were going to kill him. We turned around and went towards civilization again and ended up at the Lilypad, some kind of performance avenue where they were doing an improv tournament-sort-of-thing that night. We stopped in to see what all the fuss was about and it was HILARIOUS. We ended up sitting down and watching until 1:30 at night, when it finished.

After that, we devoured a Francesca pizza at Pizza Pie-ed where I swallowed my disgust of mushrooms and ate a lot of mushrooms. Ryan came back to the team apartment with us and we all chilled out to some good James Blake before he went home.

Some things about Ryan that we found out that night:
- 6'4"
- Violinist at The Rivers School Conservatory (I think)
- Does a lot of gigs with his orchestra friends
- Has a small Asian girlfriend
- Has a very high metabolism
- Chill dude
- Lives right down the street from the team

That was my first impromptu night and it was super fun!!!

Day 2

Thursday May 9th, 2013

First day of work. Woke up a little too late and got to work with Matt around 11:15AM. We took the subway, which was COOOOOOOOL.

The team works at Koa Labs, which is basically a TechArb for Cambridge. We spent a lot of the morning just figuring out how to rearrange tables and chairs so that the newly expanded team could all work in the same space. The team used to be a manageable 4 people, but with the addition of Giles (UI/UX Intern) and Me (I dunno what my title is yet), and later Ryan (UI/UX Intern), we were struggling to feel comfortable. Everything worked out in the end and our setup is hella nice.

Some work happens.

For brunch, I got some sushi at the "Market In The Square" next door - and then quickly realized just how expensive Boston was compared to Ann Arbor. It's not that the prices are so much higher, I think. It's just that the tax is a bit more of toll than you'd think.

More work happens.

For lunch/dinner, I had no idea what to get. I was asking Horak about food and what to eat and all kinds of questions. I'm sitting there going "what am I doinggggg" and Giles says to me "... Are you even real?" Ended up getting a wrap from the same place next door. It was HUGE.

That night, I went back to the team apartment with Horak and we walked through a bit of the Harvard campus, which was gorgeous and very campus-y.

If you look closely you will see me in front of a building in harvaaaard!!!! twitter.com/lubibul/status…
— Lulu Tang (@lubibul) May 10, 2013

For dinner, it was leftover catfish from last night's Mongo BBQ (which was still delicious). And then some Adventure Time with Matt and Mike.

Day 1

Wednesday May 8th, 2013

I arrived in Boston at about 9:30 AM on a Wednesday morning. I met this lady on the plane who sat next to me and started talking to me about how she was related to the original Pilgrims and was on an adventure to figure out her family tree... the entire 1.5 hour ride there. Which doesn't seem that long. But oh, was it long. I mean, that's cool, but, eaugh.

Anyways, I get to the team's apartment around 10:30 after a wallet draining taxi ride ($52, what???).

I'm in BOSTON!!!! twitter.com/lubibul/status…
— Lulu Tang (@lubibul) May 8, 2013

First thing Horak says to me is "I have a surprise! We're all taking the day off and going kayaking!!!" We didn't go kayaking -- but we did go to laser tag! WHICH WAS A VERY COOL AND FUN THING. ALSO, I AM HORRIBLE AT ANY SPORT, LASER TAG INCLUDED. Horak bought a plastic bow and arrow from the 'prizes' (for their arcade games). Boys.

After that, we're driving home and everyone's kind of musing about what they want to do for dinner. Do we go home first? Do we eat out? Do we make food? We're slowly inching down a street and we all see a Brazilian BBQ All-You-Can-Eat Buffet.

Schiff: "Do you guys want to get Brazilian BBQ All-You-Can-Eat?"
Everyone hesitates.
Schiff: *slowly inching forward with the car* "Yes? No? Yes or No? Hurry up guys!!"
Somebody say "yes" very quietly and then it's a YES OKAY LET'S GO, PARK!

Brazilian BBQ: Delicious and shady. Also lots of catfish.

After that, I had a headache. Probably from travelling all day and just shock of getting to a new city? Not sure. Maybe allergies. Doesn't matter. The rest of the guys were going to a concert that night and I had already bought a ticket for it. I ended up foregoing the money so I could get some sleep. Watch the Firefly movie, Serenity. Take a breather.

Once they guys got back, we all chilled a bit. Matt played some hipster guitar tunes and I sang along while strumming random notes on his ukulele. Horak tried to play ukulele, but he "doesn't have musical talent", he says. 

Intro

Hello, Lulu here!

I find myself in Boston for the next 2.5 months, working for my favorite company and favorite people in the world: Fetchnotes. Like most trips, I'm going to document this one very well. (I still remember when I went to DC with my best friend Emily and we counted how many squirrels, taxis, limos, etc. we saw. We were 12 or something.).

I'm going to try and post something every day -- but if nothing especially interesting happens, I probably won't. Also, knowing me, I'll slip up and stop posting for a month on "accident".

Let's go, then?

- Lulu