SCATTERGORIES BEGINNINGS

Funny how most of my blog
starts are at the beginning of a long year
abroad and then they disappear...
Well NEW IDEAR
Now that i'm in Bahston
....and it's not poetry (thank god)

Well, I might throw in a poem every now and then when I'm feeling existential BUT most of the time I'm going to play scattergories instead.


Here is a summary of my summer in the official game's list 14:

1.)  WORN ABOVE THE WAIST
 my nerdy camelback nozzle. yes i did drink out of it sometimes.

2.) THINGS THAT ARE BRIGHT
the top of the state house! but not the students who, I learned, once tried scraping gold off the top of it to pay for college. it's not a very discreet place...


3.) THINGS THAT HAVE NUMBERS
 ages on student ID cards... whoooops.

4.) FOUND IN A GYM/HEALTH CLUB  
not me.

5.) CHAIN STORES
family dollar.      .....oh yeahhh.  nothing makes me feel entitled like all of the cleaning supplies i could ever want.


6.) WAYS TO SAY HI AND BYE
"Well.... now I'm bloated and disoriented. I'll go home" 

(a customer leaving the restaurant said this to me while I was hosting. It was actually a nice change from the routine greeting)

7.) THINGS IN THE BACKYARD
 the prudential! literally behind my window where I lived this summer!

8.) THINGS I USE TO DECORATE MY HOUSE
 a mouse.   ...is it still a decoration if you don't choose it?

9.) ITEMS IN AN OFFICE
in my office? bananagrams and scattergories and google images mug shots for ESL kids to describe and candy to pacify them... a sort of starbursts communion.

10.) THINGS IN PAIRS OR SETS
If Infinite Jest came in sets, I wouldn't need weights to lift for when I am not at the gym. I only made it about half way in the end, but there is always next summer!

11.) ARTISTS
this guy on Newbury who I will always remember singing the possibly drug-induced but very original acoustic lyrics, 
"your head is replaced by a cabbage/ is / something that could never happen"
I always wonder where quality control happens in the giving out of permits to street musicians.

I also got into the following artists, some thanks to one of my dearest friends, who emptied and refilled my ipod in june: Mountain Man, Nick Drake, Morphine, Frank Turner, Jackson C Frank, Laura Marling, and many others.

12.) THINGS IN LAS VEGAS
also not me. i did get out to vermont and cape cod though!