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queue does this, since he bought me this #@*%!@! RTO book!)
If you find yourself unable to go away to someplace exotic for vacation, try the "think global, act local" approach. Be a tourist in your hometown, as in where you are living this month, not where you grew up, wise ass!
As luck would have it, I'm getting the hell out of dodge this month. I'm going to Burning Man, which is about as offworld as I can get without access to a Stargate.
Last year, when I couldn't justify the expense, I still managed to go out and do stuff and experience something new, precisely so I wouldn't feel too sad. (I metcharliegirl, for one.) I've pretty much got this particular lesson down. But how about the rest of you?
YOUR MISSION, SHOULD YOU CHOOSE TO ACCEPT IT: (And you should -- aside from reassuring me that you don't hate me, or worse, simply don't care about me -- it's a worthy growing experience for yourself)
Send me a postcard, a photo, or some other record, of you being a tourist in your current hometown.
Are there museums, libraries, maybe a memorial statue or garden? What do you know about the history (founding, development) of your town? (prog only discovered the tombstone memorial on Elm street, like, last week.)
If you are living near where your family has been for generations, try to find the oldest known residence of any of your folks. Just visit the neighborhood of your youth and be completely weirded out at how much smaller everything is now that you've graduated kindergarten.
Just explore or perhaps picnic in a nice park or town square you never knew was there. Geocaching, and its no-GPS required predecessor, Letterboxing, are both excellent at heightening this sense of local awareness. Get out and see the world immediately around you.
She also recommends checking out restaurants and shops, but I'm trying to keep your expenses down, after all, you're saving up for planefare. Although, if you find a restaurant that looks sufficiently intriguing, maybe we can go there sometime and you can tell me about the rest of your "vacation" in your hometown.
That said:
(Make sure
queue does this, since he bought me this #@*%!@! RTO book!)If you find yourself unable to go away to someplace exotic for vacation, try the "think global, act local" approach. Be a tourist in your hometown, as in where you are living this month, not where you grew up, wise ass!
As luck would have it, I'm getting the hell out of dodge this month. I'm going to Burning Man, which is about as offworld as I can get without access to a Stargate.
Last year, when I couldn't justify the expense, I still managed to go out and do stuff and experience something new, precisely so I wouldn't feel too sad. (I met
charliegirl, for one.) I've pretty much got this particular lesson down. But how about the rest of you?YOUR MISSION, SHOULD YOU CHOOSE TO ACCEPT IT: (And you should -- aside from reassuring me that you don't hate me, or worse, simply don't care about me -- it's a worthy growing experience for yourself)
Send me a postcard, a photo, or some other record, of you being a tourist in your current hometown.
Are there museums, libraries, maybe a memorial statue or garden? What do you know about the history (founding, development) of your town? (
prog only discovered the tombstone memorial on Elm street, like, last week.)If you are living near where your family has been for generations, try to find the oldest known residence of any of your folks. Just visit the neighborhood of your youth and be completely weirded out at how much smaller everything is now that you've graduated kindergarten.
Just explore or perhaps picnic in a nice park or town square you never knew was there. Geocaching, and its no-GPS required predecessor, Letterboxing, are both excellent at heightening this sense of local awareness. Get out and see the world immediately around you.
She also recommends checking out restaurants and shops, but I'm trying to keep your expenses down, after all, you're saving up for planefare. Although, if you find a restaurant that looks sufficiently intriguing, maybe we can go there sometime and you can tell me about the rest of your "vacation" in your hometown.
That said:
- I still have Four free movie passes to the Dedham Community Theatre (swag from the Ramble), usable for any show, Monday-Thursday, that expire August 28th. The basement of that moviehouse is The Museum of Bad Art. The last night I could use them is tonight, and I'm getting too frantic about packing. (Also wondering if I need to shop for a new outfit for Autumn's wedding. Most of my semi-formal dresses are black, or the sort of soft, muted colors that realy irritate her... ) Let me know if you want them, and where I should leave them for you.
- I also have my member card to the MFA. If you're fairly organized, you can even pass it around amongst yourselves. (You can't get disocunted movies or special exhibits, I think they check against my membership records for that and will figure out you're not me, but you can visit the main galleries for free.)
- Harvard museums are free before noon on Saturdays.
- Somerville museum is always free.
- There are still some free outdoor movies and concerts left this season.
- People who live inland plan entire vacations on just getting a chance to look at the Ocean.
- Yes, even if you don't live in my neighborhood/state, I still want a record of your summer vacation.
- I hear there's a lot of Colonial and Revolutionary War tourist attractions in the Boston area.
- When I come back, I still want to go to the zoo (there is No other Way to get my mother to stop harrassing me about the baby zebra), play minigolf, check out the corn mazes, haunted houses, open studios, dine out, etc. A truly inspired response will probably get some kind of material reward.
- "Assignment" is "due" on September 6th, the official suspoid end of summer, so that I can tell everyone at roozle and sunspiral's just how amazingly cool you really are. (That's when I'll next have time to write up a report of what everyone did, it's an assignment for me too.)
