It's Friday afternoon in the city (July 9, 2010). It's an absolutely beautiful day and @ 85 degrees. I'm headed out of the Eastlake neighborhood just after 5:00 PM. I mentioned it was Friday, right? City traffic is rush hour jammed so over the hill, Capitol Hill that is...
I have it down now after five months of working in the city again. Left down the alley out of our building, up Lynn St, right on Boylston. As I approach the freeway entrance I have about 5 seconds to make up my mind, "Freeway or over the hill?" I know over the hill means about an hour to get home at this time of the day. I gage my decision quickly weighing time verses enjoyment.
5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0... and over the hill. Lakeview Avenue it is, up Belmont and Roy pass my old Alma Mater, Cornish Institute (now Cornish College of the Arts). Right on Boylston, left at Mercer, up to 12th and take a right. Most days I stay on 12th through Chinatown and over Beacon Hill. Today I'm curious and take a left at Union and head up the hill to Martin Luther King Jr Way. I opened title orders this week on a couple of listings in the neighborhood and I want to check them out.
I'm having a good time enjoying the weather, windows are down, music is playing, I pull up to the red light at Cherry St and OMG THAT SMELLS AWESOME! I'm instantly overwhelmingly starving. I look right and there it is, Catfish Corner.
I seriously have to try this place!
Note to self: This is a Yelp review just waiting to happen!
Why do 4 day work weeks seem longer?
There's a lot of change around here in the past couple of years. A lot of new housing and commercial development. It was a little startling to have a train pass me in the left lane. There's a curb, but it didn't feel like it.
What a great way to end a week. I helped a lot of clients, had some great conversations, launched another video, did my duty, the weather's fabulous, and today I'm loving that Friday afternoon attitude, "I've got the whole weekend ahead of me."
From: The Blackberry Chronicles
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