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teinedreugan and I went out to dinner at Mary's, which apparently approximately half of the Boston area thought would be a cool idea at the same time.Right after we were seated, a pair of smalls, all bundled up in their cold weather gear, came trundling by with a chair. They had apparently liberated it from one of the central tables and were going to push it until stopped, sliding it back first along the carpet as that way the seat was at the right level for both contributors to push. Where they happened to wind up stopped was right next to our booth, as the crowdedness permitted no further progress; they responded to this by carefully pushing the chair under the table at the end, patting it lightly, and informing us, "Chair!"
Parents pointed out that there were only two of us, and we were both sitting down, so we didn't need a chair. "Chair!" said the smalls, with enthusiasm.
Eventually small children were herded away by significantly nonplussed parents, who also returned the chair to whatever table near the front of the restaurant had misplaced it.
"Chair!"
It was awfully cute.
[ Processing much life. But the smalls needed to be remembered. Chair! ]
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I've read enough old stuff that smalls, to me, meant underwear, and I needed to parse-reparse to figure it out.
It's great that someone remembers these things!
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It's a family word for small children. I don't know if it's independent of my father's tendency to call his offspring "small change", though. (As the surname is pronounced the same as a low-denomination American coin . . .)
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Are you feeling functional enough to do lunch tomorrow somewhere?
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What's your transportation flexibility like? I've only got public transit. Definitely up to it if you've got someone with a car who can come find me -- depends much more on when/where if I've got to try to grab a bus or the train.
How hard is it to find a place that has food you can eat?
Oddly enough, one of the most convenient places for me to get to by transit is the airport, but the food there is expensive and mostly not that great . . . .
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I can't deposit my luggage at the airport because they have no left luggage because of "security". I don't think I want to wander around the place with several large bags, because that's just too impractical. Also my flight turns out to be at 18:05, not 19:05 as I had thought. So I really need to be at the airport by 3.30pm or so.
All that having been said, lunch is still a possibility, as long as I'm not obsessed with the idea of trying to "see" Boston in the morning. The purpose of my trip is to see people, and seeing the towns are somewhat secondary to that :) Today, the first restaurant (a Tibetan) we went to did several things I could eat (and did them very well). Generally speaking, Asian food is good. Any Chinese/Japanese that does vegetarian stuff is ok (as all Chinese vegetarian stuff is dairy-free by default, and egg is usually optional), Indian is ok if on reading the menu you don't see every single veggie item containing descriptions like "a creamy sauce" or "cooked in butter". Also, if you don't mind going somewhere that only sells vegan food (depending on what particular food issues you have - if soy or gluten are problems I wouldn't recommend it) I have a specific recommendation for this place:
Grasshopper
1 N Beacon St (at Allston-Brighton)
617-254-8883
No idea how to get there from here, but I can ask my native to help :)
I can probably give you his phone number so you can call something that's not an international number (if you want to), but I'd have to check that's ok first.
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*has a look at Grasshopper* I can probably find something I can eat there, if all else fails they're offering H&S soup I see and that's one of my favorites. *looks at map* I wonder how bad the snow around there is -- it's nearest the B line on the Green line, and I can get there, I'm loosely familiar with the area (I used to live on the B line). Not sure I know the most efficient way, but I can pull it off.
Might be easier to negotiate plans with a phone number -- please email me if your native doesn't want it in public. (lilairen@livejournal.com works fine)
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I'm fairly confident of my ability to find food at any random half-decent Chinese-type place, so it's not necessary to try to get there. I'm going to email you the phone number (it belongs to
I have to avoid bookshops! and record shops! and game shops! (although the latter is the most flexible for peeling off packaging and pretending I owned it all along) because I have precisely $3 left before I reach my duty-free allowance. You are only allowed to take 145 UKP worth of stuff into the UK, and if you exceed that you have to pay duty and VAT (tax) on ALL OF IT, not just the part that is over 145 pounds... Duty + VAT together add about 30% to the cost of things! So I MUST NOT go to shops where I would be tempted to spend, spend, spend... :(
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And wow, that VAT thing sounds like a real pain in the ass. :/
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squee!
suzi
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