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June 28, 2005
My Four Days of Unemployment - Day Two
I had originally planned on posting something each day during my four days of unemployment between my full-time job ending (June 24) and my consulting assignment starting, since I'd obviously have some time on my hands and had nothing more planned than strolling around Boston looking for Wi-Fi hotspots. Sadly, I was so into the whole doing nothing business on day one that I neglected to make a post, oops. Anyway, the highlight of the day was just missing a run in with the Cleveland Indian's Kevin Millwood at the bar in the Radisson. The gentlemen at the bar insisted that he was a very nice guy.
So today, I decided to take it up a notch and throw a little culture into Day 2. I stopped at the Christian Science Mapparium, since walking inside a giant stained-glass globe seemed like it might be fun and I've walked by the building about 700 times in the last 8 years without going in. Sadly, they didn't allow photography inside the Maparium, so you'll just have to take my word that, while pretty, it wasn't exactly awe inspiring. On the way out, the tour guide allowed each of us to whisper any "thoughts or encouragement" to the world, to which I'm sure the most common response is to lean in towards Iceland and gently whisper, "this wasn't worth six bucks."
Another little exhibit they had there was the "Hall of Ideas," which was basically a light display flashing inspiring quotes on the walls and in a fountain like so:
Other than that, it was basically a bunch of Mary Baker Eddy and/or Christian Science Monitor propaganda - they are both really great, according to the museum. My favorite part of the whole thing were these ceiling lamps:
After that I went to play pool for two hours and had a couple Dunkin' Donuts iced coffees; not much of a cultural event. But then I stopped by the Boston Public Library to peek at the Boston Ink exhibit about the Boston Society of Printers' history. It was both free and interesting, I learned some things about the history of the Western Alphabet that I'm sure can go right onto my resume.
That was it for Day Two, other than to report that I got a haircut today and, lets just say that in the future if the barber is an ex-military man I'll refrain from insisting that I want my hair "really, really short." Also, we'll be heading to a little barbecue later on. I've heard reports that the steaks, "really do look good," so I'm looking forward to that.
Stay tuned for tomorrow, I'll be dropping by the Sox v. Indians afternoon game at Fenway.
Posted by stan at June 28, 2005 05:08 PM