Sign of the Times

COUNTIN' DOWN
How do you get sunburned (and almost suffer from heat stroke) and then get hailed on all in one day? The answer, of course, is that you live in Boston. Boston's weather is just as schizophrenic as its people. At a barbecue on Sunday, Beth and I were informed by a man there that roughly 95% of the people in this city are either crazy or well on their way there. Far be it for us to call anyone crazy, but at least we're functionally insane...and when you throw in the height problem, the disproportional amount of post-frat boys, the massive amount of people manifesting Entitled Personality Disorder, and, of course, the MBTA...well, the answer speaks for itself. One of my student's on Friday told that I couldn't possibly leave because Boston is the best city in the world. I told him...for every reason you can think to stay, I can think of at least five reasons to dispute it...