Here’s what I like about California: 1) My parents. 2) My parent’s dog 3) Listening to loud techno in a mini-van with an above average sound system 4) thinking while doing number 3 5)Meals cooked by someone other than me, without me even asking for them 6) The sunrise drive through the big desert hills 7) Knowing I don’t live here when looking at smog or analyzing traffic 8) In-N-Out Burger 9) That my family is the kind of family who really stop everything and watch the silent tribute to our war dead at the end of the Jim Leher Newshour, which is just haunting and should be exceptionally relevant to our daily mindset as a nation – especially since that program is the only one doing it.(!)
What I don’t like about California: 1) My Parent’s TV, which is ironically my old TV, the pride of young teen years since I sold my saxaphone to buy it and it was the biggest most beautiful thing ever – considering we had a 13″ my whole life and it was 25″. I still remember seeing Picard’s big bald head on it the first day I owned it, and thus awash with pride. ( I watched a ridiculous amount of TV back then, totally ridiculous –) Anyway now the TV is way old and has a high pitched whine that only I can hear (well the Dog must hear it too but has just resigned herself to bear it I guess) – I cringe at the whine, at the commercials, and the volume that seems to increase with every visit – 2) The pathetic lack of any good sandwich places around where I work, I would sell your first born child for a Cosi or Chacarero in Corona, CA 3) The fact that I know two people here I would like to see and they are too far away to see when factoring in traffic and my insane work load. It’d be like working a 10-12 hour day in New York City and then trying to hang out with someone in Hartford the same night. That’s bullshit.
What I miss about Boston: 1) You, if you are in Boston 2) My Shower and its reliable instant heat and perfectly violent spray 3) My bed 4)On that note, You, if you are in Boston, and single, and perfect for me, and a woman 5) My dual monitors – working with Excel just sucks when you get used to them and then dont have them. 6) My 3 eggs every morning, the moment I get out of bed. 7) My poor pathetic plant which is alive because I remember to water it occasionally 8) That first “is it going to snow today?” day which I’m sure I have missed.
What I don’t miss about Boston: 1) College students, especially the ones in my building. 2) You, if you annoy me or represent everything I hate about the world, like People Magazine or raw white onions. 3) Irrational Red Sox fans intentionally burning themselves on the hot stove.