Yeah to Democrats and BOOOO to the DNC

Rewind to last night:   11:30 pm stopping at CVS to pick up my blood pressure medication so my heart and/or head don't explode.  Back in the car.  Stop to get some water because I realize I'm thirsty.  Drive onto Rt. 93 where it looks like the Las Vegas strip:  giant floodlights, a gazillion signs telling people where to go (I'm considering putting up my own sign telling people where to go) and road markers, relfectors, and about 100 state troopers.  All told, it was relatively easy getting into Boston and I arrived there at 12:30 am. 

I'm staying with a friend in Boston until Wednesday night because I just don't want to deal with the traffic going back and forth to my home.  I generally don't like staying anywhere other than home because it's always a search for my stuff in the morning, I always forget something and I generally just feel like I've started my day out of place.  I am appreciative that I'm able to stay in town, though.

So Kerry, Kenny, Carter and Clinton (ok, and Edwards...I was just on a roll with the K sounds) are all in town and there's a general tension in the air.  All of the police and secret service and notices that there's a "credible threat" to Boston from Al Qaida just makes it creepy.  Everyone's a little jiggity and on edge.  Just as I got into Boston, the ballgame let out and as I was walking down the street with my bag filled with stuff, I got a lot of looks at the bag.  I think people are just wigged out and have their eye on everyone else.    I was ready to fling my skivvies out to prove I wasn't carrying anything scary.  (Although the skivvies could probably fall under that category)  What was more scary was how the entire street smelled like rank beer.  And that odor was coming out of the people from the ballgame.  Yuck.

Fast forward to today:  I've never seen Boston so empty.  There's hardly any cars on the road and not a lot of people walking around.  It's like everyone just up and left.  In fact, they probably did.   Everyone got into work on time and apparently, there were no traffic hassles at all.  But that was this morning.  After 4:00 they shut EVERYWHERE down and I can guarantee it's going to SUCK trying to get out of Boston.  Yeah for friends!

Kennedy has a big concert here at the hall tomorrow night and that's got everyone scrambling.  The secret service are making bigs demands, of course, and I feel SO bad for the crew here.  They're going to have a very long day tomorrow, and I'm sure it will be hectic and stressful. 
People are running around today hooking things up, decorating, there's about a million vacuum cleaners running right now, floors being mopped. 

I'm going to eat out for the next few days at my favorite restaurants (staying clear of the North End and the Fleet Center area):  Addis Red Sea (Ethiopian), Kaya (Korean), California Pizza Kitchen (self-explanatory) and maybe the S&S deli in Cambridge.   I  need to find a good Indian food place because if I don't have some naan soon, I just may go insane. 

So that's my first DNC update.  Chock full of political goodness, no?  Ok, ok....I'm just laying out the land for you.  It really is kind of creepy around here.  Like a ghost town....

 


- posted by Taunia @ 1:29 PM