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Thu | February 15, 2007
a morning in Boston
Well, that was annoying. Just spent an hour futilely trying to make the wireless work on my sister's laptop, so that I could email myself the document that I had been working on. I should have known that the wireless was unreliable. She has a router but it just doesn't seem to be reliable. It's annoying because I worked on it for an hour or so and then spent almost as much time just clicking around the wireless options trying to do this thing that should have only taken a second. Now I am completely frustrated and it's just not a very nice conclusion to an otherwise tolerable trip. Also, it's kind of annoying to sit around all morning and do nothing. But, I didn't expect anything much, so I am not disappointed. There was a lot of sitting around on this trip, but there was some activity- went to a cafe for a bit yesterday morning, and at night went to the MFA and dinner. On Tuesday night when I got here we hung out for a bit and then went to dinner also. It snowed a lot yesterday and now I have to decide whether to take back this luggage that is going to be difficult to naviagte over all the ice and slush. I think some sidewalks are cleared but others, may not be. Anyway, I suppose I survived V-day. By sitting around all afternoon and then getting out, which we might not have, if I had not been resolute. I also read a few chapters of a novel. The Ambassadors. I usually say HJ is my favorite, and yet I have only read a few of his books. This time I am understanding it a bit better. I think last time I must not have, because I was apparently on page 100 and did not really have a handle on it. Now I am back to that spot, at which I stopped, and I completely know what's going on. So I think I'll finish this hopefully, as long as I don't get stuck again at this previous sticking point, and then I'll read the Golden Bowl, maybe. In a while, that is. I don't read that many books anymore and it was bad advice to hear, and hear again, that I should be reading a book every two days, or whatever. That's insane. And no fun. And if I don't enjoy myself a little, I will really not make any progress. I have tried it. I have a tendency to not have fun, and not make progress, because I take things too seriously. Anyway maybe I will try to get my sister out of bed now (she had gotten up but has gone back, thus leaving her desktop available for me to use) and maybe we can go to lunch before I leave. Maybe the wireless will magically work now and I can upload that document.
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