morning time

[quietann]

I saw JBVB on the train this morning. That was nice, though he was gruff as usual. Actually, he may have been a bit more gruff than usual, given the huge numbers of not-very-quiet children on the train.

Relatedly, I would like to know what IDIOT decided that the matinees of the Incredibles on Ice show at the TD Banknorth Garden should end at the HEIGHT of rush hour, when there isn't even enough room in North Station for the regular commuters. And some families taking the commuter rail at rush hour are VERY demanding about the whole family sitting together -- on trains where there aren't enough seats for the regular commuters. A lot of us will be very happy next week, when all the kids are back in school.

(For the non-Boston folk: the TD Banknorth Garden is a large arena with an ice rink. It's where the Boston Bruins and the Celtics play. It is built more or less right on top of North Station, which handles about 30,000 commuters per day. One cannot get into the Garden without going through North Station, which has no waiting area per se, and seems acoustically designed to maximize the reverb of screaming toddlers. This causes much crankiness, although occasionally it's amusing, as when Madonna did a show at the Garden a few years back, and North Station was full of Madonna wannabees.)

I could get really cranky about all the social stuff we aren't invited to this weekend. ("It's a busy social weekend? That's news to me!") But I won't. Rather, I will say that Ben and I are 95% sure that we will be having an *open* Suspects party sometime in May, and I just hope that we don't end up scheduling it on top of some Very Important private invite thing that we don't know about, because that would utterly suck.

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[donnad.livejournal.com]

Busy social weekend?
Not for us. You are not the only ones left off invitations.

yeah

[cthulhia]

we can all be the uncool kids together, except for couples preferred events, which seems to be most of them these days.

Re: yeah

[quietann.livejournal.com]

hm, the only social things I might end up doing are decidedly not just for couples.

[jim-p.livejournal.com]

Us neither... no parties for us this weekend. I'm going to try and get us reservations at The Student Prince for Saturday night, though...

Maybe when I'm living closer to boston things will be different. If nothing else, all the uncool kids will be welcome to hang out at my place ;)

[bedfull-o-books.livejournal.com]

Me neither....

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

I suspect you know about something that is slipping your mind right now, but in any case, there's always Booty Vortex at Johnny D's! Woo! I'll be away myself, but everyone else should be there. :)

[quietann.livejournal.com]

there is, in fact, one private invite thing we are invited to.

But the hostess was rather rude to Ben when he asked her what else was going on this weekend.

[deguspice.livejournal.com]

there is, in fact, one private invite thing we are invited to.

Unfortunately, I have an Arisia meeting that conflicts, so I can't go to the party.

But the hostess was rather rude to Ben when he asked her what else was going on this weekend.

I'd say her reply was terse, not rude.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Now I don't even know if it's the same thing I was thinking of. :) I *do* know for certain of something you're invited to next weekend, in any case.

FWIW, while I can think of a thing or two, it doesn't go as far as "ridiculous" or "absurd" as others have described the weekend, though I suppose I may be auto-deleting events I know I won't make it to. Don't discount the possibility that you may be doing something similar. For all that it can be a nice ego-boo to receive lots of invites, I'd rather be invited to the one thing I really want to be at than a dozen about which I could care less.

[quietann.livejournal.com]

I know about next weekend... someone's trying to convince me to, um, dress up for her birthday party. But I have a scheduling conflict with something more lowkey and probably more my style in general.

[whuffle.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know what you mean about North Station. Damned what a bad series of design choices they made! Should really have been a separate entrance and lobby for both the Garden and the train terminal. Even if you have to go through the train terminal to get to the lobby of the Garden. Sigh. More horridly managed and planned civic works projects...

BTW, if there are a ton of social activities going on, usually I don't know about them either. But then, I usually prefer the smaller gatherings anyhow. So I just shrug it off. I would rather be relaxing on the weekend than worrying about having on my "social face". I didn't realize that I had a "social face" until I was horribly overcommitted with too many social activities and I really didn't want to go to any of them at all. I finally took a step back and decided to do what was best for me and skip them when I am not feeling up to it or organize smaller social activities that are more suited to my comfort level. Hence the reason I was hosting project nights. (Speaking of which, I need to start doing that again.)

[marmota.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what's up this weekend. Last weekend was the full social calendar, I hear nothin' but the sound of crickets for this one. Are you sure?

[quietann.livejournal.com]

you should be on the invite list for one thing but it will probably be kid-laden as it's in the afternoon.

[marmota.livejournal.com]

If it's the one I'm thinking of, you're right, I forgot about it. I can't imagine dealing with the logistics of cooking for a food-based early afternoon saturday (when I typically sleep until noon) event that I'm not even sure I can get to by public transit anyway, only to then have to deal with the interruptions of hordes of free range rug rats while trying to get even a little into the intelligent conversations I'd be looking for. I meant evening grownup stuff.

[quietann.livejournal.com]

OK. Evening grownup stuff was what I was talking about, too.

I will probably spend the day working on my brother's wedding quilt; the wedding is 4 months from tomorrow and I still have a lot of work to do.

[ceo]

North Station is like that because, when they built the new Boston Garden Shawmut Center FleetCenter TD Banknorth Garden, they were going to built a new North Station lobby as part of whatever got built on the site of the old Boston Garden. Which is still the plan, but they haven't built anything there yet. That's also why the new entrance from the North Station subway station comes up in front of the Garden instead of inside it.

[frotz.livejournal.com]

And here I was assuming they were just planning on finishing the north-south rail link and make South Station the primary loading point.

Any century now...

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

Hey, you know what? If you end up scheduling opposite some Very Important Private Function that no one told you about, that's really not your fault. And at a certain point it's not your problem. No time is going to be good for everyone, there are only a certain number of weekends in the year, yada yada.

(Of course, I can say that. What social life?)

[quietann.livejournal.com]

True enough. But I'd be mightily pissed off if it happenned. (I am thinking the sort of Very Important event that would be more attractive to most of our friends than hauling out to the burbs for a relatively low-key party... like... hm. A wedding. Or a sex party. Or something like that...)

[frotz.livejournal.com]

Why be pissed off? You'll get people who are self-selected as wanting to be there, instead of just being there because there's nothing else to do. I've found lately that weekends with multiple big things going on are a big advantage.

Anyway, I'm totally with Diane on this.

[koshmom.livejournal.com]

I know of nothing happening this weekend, except for something tonite (friday) which I doubt has any overlapping people with LJ people.

[sensesurfer.livejournal.com]

Ok I'll bite last minute pizza party at my house this Saturday....... I'll post it in my journal!

[gingicat]

Well, people are generally invited to teddywolf's Radio Sunday thing, it's just that you might not have noticed it go by in his LJ.