Bets on how long it takes someone to vault off the edge

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Cool. Keep thinking you're special and like, totally rad. I'm sure a ton of people disagree with you, which only makes you so much cooler.

You won’t be disappointed! (I hope!)

I like bovas a lot! I just prefer mikes for cannoli. I will give bovas cannoli another whirl though. it’s been a while and maybe my memory serves me incorrect haha.

I don’t claim to be cool. I just think the movie sucks.

Yeah it totally sucked, it definitely doesn't deserve the 8.3/10 rating it has on IMDB. What a shitty movie that totally doesn't have great character development. Everybody loves it, but you're right to shit on it because you're so fucking cool

Good Will Hunting is possibly the most cloying, maudlin and irritating movie ever made.

I have my reasons…I feel very isolated working from home and living in Roslindale. I thought I would keep up with my friends from my post doc program but I realize that was an ambitious idea because no one really keeps up the same way when they no longer work together and traffic gets so congested here it becomes a 45 min drive one way to go into parts of Boston for after work activities. Without traffic I live like 20 min from Boston, but that would only be at undesirable times like at 1 am lol. But if I lived closer to Boston I could join some social clubs or use Bumble BFF with ease, and it would be cool to meet new people and potentially make some new friends. So going back to my story, I lost my Cambridge apartment after 1 year because my roommate couldn’t justify the cost anymore since we were both post docs. I loved living there but I didn’t actually even get to enjoy the apartment much because I had a major knee injury during the time of the lease and was in/out of recovering from surgeries. From there (I left this part out from the original post because of how traumatic it is) I actually moved to a gorgeous new condo as a third roommate in Mission Hill for a summer (was supposed to be for a year or more) but got essentially evicted from that apartment in only 3 months because my landlord/roommate was upset that I wouldn’t listen to her every neurotic demand (I was asked not to brush my hair in my own bathroom because the guests also used it and she didn’t want long hairs on the ground) and I didn’t want to be best friends with her outside of being roommates (I made a big mistake moving into that place, I should have known that woman was stunted when I walked in on her watching Camp Cretaceous the cartoon when I was interviewing). I learned to be careful of who you find on FB roommates groups after that experience! I know there are laws to protect the tenant but the situation was so uncomfortable and she started threatening to change the locks and harassing me through text message on a daily basis (about how this is her condo and she can’t live unless she felt like she had full control of the situation in it), so I moved out but not without forcing her to agree to pay for my moving fees with the help of my lawyer friend reminding her that tenant laws are a thing and she was in violation of them. Then I begrudgingly moved into the current place at Roslindale with a guy friend because I was essentially homeless. Things have been fine in Rozzy but it never felt like my space, it’s more so his. It’s truly not at all what I envisioned for my Boston life when I moved here from suburban NJ 3 years ago. Boston has simultaneously been the worst and best times of my adult life. I tried to move out of my current space in July when I first started my new job but my younger brother committed suicide 2 days into my job, so I just didn’t have the energy to do it immediately after. I was just so run down by what life had been throwing at me for the past 3 years. Now that I finally had time to process things and have this higher income job after a decade of schooling and training, I can finally afford stuff and I really want to regain control of my life and write a better middle and ending to my Boston narrative. I’m really not “humble bragging” about anything, I just want genuine advice because I’m not from around here and I don’t come from a lot of money so I have to consider saving for a house and retirement like any normal person. Thank you to everyone who provided helpful advice and didn’t troll me ❤️

Mattapan

Harvard Vanguard - several locations

Reliant medical group in Metrowest https://reliantmedicalgroup.org

Holy hell I had no idea Mike’s had a Florentine cannoli. I gotta try it asap

No one besides you is arguing about what people talked like in 1984.

I found a lot of this info online with a combination of:

tools.usps.com for USPS services, and

Google maps to get me actual locations.

I have personally used the Fort Point office to mail a package just before I boarded an Amtrak train.

The Fort Point location is next to South Station, so, you could take the Silver Line SL-1 bus to.from Logan, although it is rather slow.

The USPS.com site used to be better about telling you if a USPS APC is at an office; like it now says there's an APC at Chelsea, but I'm unsure if East Boston has one. The APCs are very useful for printing that special oversized label you need for a late nite early morning mailing.

MBTA police have been locking up South Station after 10PM to drive the homeless out, so, to reach USPS Fort Point from South Station, you may have to walk outside via Summer Street to USPS.

Ummm idk about undeserved tbh, I lived in Baltimore for 5 years and tbh Lynn is the only time I've ever thought like "this dude night actually kill us" when I've had a gun pulled on me

And if you like water, dip into a bath

They turn and burn their guests, and treat their staff like shit too. They’ve got a few new locations and concepts in the works this year, and the only thing they’re good at making, is money. They’re the worst of the worst in the industry for biting the hands that feed them.

IIRC the Whopper got rejected by the zoning board despite being a 40B project due to sewage system overload concerns and the "landscape design, open space arrangements and building design of the project are inadequate and pose a threat to public health and safety"

https://www.weston.org/1366/518-South-Avenue

Wow, thank you!

Union Oyster House is actually awesome.

The USPS Office at Fort Point, South Station (25 Dorchester Ave, Bos, 02205) Operates 6AM-Midnite, Mon-Sunday.

The East Boston USPS Office is at 50 Meridian Street, but has more normal hours, 9AM-5PM

If you can provide the envelope, many (if not most) USPS locations (Fort Point, Milk Street, Back Bay) have an APC (Automated Postal Center == A Postal ATM kiosk), whcih can dispense pre-printed stamps & labels.

Most Post Offices offer free envelopes for Flat Rate and Express Mail Service; you could carry the envelopes with you, and print appropriate lables at the USPS APC kiosk.

USPS Flat Rate means you pay the highest postage, irrespective of weight or distance, for the item. USPS Express Mail, like the name, is basically next day delivery, for a premium price.

Fedex has a "Ship Center" service desk with normal business hours, (9AM-9:30PM), and a Fedex "On Site" Office, at 1 Kelley Sq East Boston, which claims to be 24 hours.

EDIT: Further Thoughts:

A Fedex Office site (used to be Kinko's) may be a perfect match. They can print, box and mail your document for you. Fedex Office can also do remote printing to other Fedex Office sites.

The nearest Fedex Office site seems to be (ironically) 10 Post Office Square, Boston 02109. Only Fedex Drop Boxes in East Boston.

whale watching, so you can be in the middle of the atlantic in the middle of winter 🥶

Awesome! The best place to start is the AMC Boston website. There are a bunch of different committees. I normally lead/co-lead hikes with the local hikes & walks and the 20s and 30s committees.

anytime i return from a vacation, the first thing i appreciate is water