Your Girlfriend is Ugly

Notes from the Path train

Now that I live in Hoboken and commute into Manhattan twice a week I've become a slave to public transportation. I even take (gasp) the bus sometimes. I'm no stranger to using the NYC subway it's just that I haven't had to do it in a while and living in Boston and the 'burbs of Boston you drive everywhere.

So the Path trainhas become my new best friend. I honestly don't know why everyone hems and haws about living in Hoboken. My commute to work is 40 minutes door to door. Even when the trains are packed and you're standing in someone's armpit I still get to 57th and Madison in exactly 40 minutes. Take THAT B line! (If you're from Boston you totally get that reference.)

The one thing I will never understand though is people who stand right in front of the doors. For example this morning I get off the 126 bus and make my way down to the train. It was already brimming with people. I selected the car I wanted to ride in and noticed that there was a girl standing with her back to the open door.

"Excuse me."

Naturally she was wearing an iPod.

"EXCUSE ME!"

She shimmied over a little and I took my place next to her but away from the door.

About three minutes went by and people kept filing into this car. Everyone had to say excuse me to this dumb bitch standing in the door way. And every time someone say excuse me she's huff, give a sideways glance and move a little to allow them in, but then she'd go right back to standing in front of the door.

Ok fine. You want to stand in front of the door whatever. I could give a shit. But don't be a bitch about it! Don't huff at the fat guy with the backpack who is trying to make the train just because you have some weird need to stand in front of the Path door.

I was telling LK about this and she explained that the same thing happens on the F train. Apparently there is a stop where everyone gets out to connect to the A train and the train basically empties out but there is always one person standing in front of the doors who will not move.

Is it like a sense of entitlement thing? Are people just being bad-asses?

Why do I care?

Re-entry back into society.

Well it's October 6th. Summer has long since been over (even though it's going to be in the 70's on Monday??? WTF?!) and daylight savings ends on the 29th. Boo-Hooooo...It's time to bust out the pashminas, woolly mittens and corn stalks.

It's also time for Lisa's re-entry back into society.

Listen carefully: from Memorial Day to Labor Day I am out of commission. I head to the Cape every Friday to my parents house and chill out. I go to the beach, watch the Sox game, go shopping, nap, get a mani/pedi, get a little drunk with my bad self off of wine, go out to dinner. Rinse & Repeat. I hang out with no one, except The Donna, The Esteban and my sister. Or unless my parents are throwing a ripper, which during the Summer of 2006 was every weekend.

My family is pretty much the best so I have no problem spending weekends with them. Plus I don't live at home any more so the face to faces are nice.

During the summer months my friends would always sigh and say, "Ooooh Leeees you can't hang this weekend?! But there's a killer kegger at Molly Sue's house! Don't you want to come?"

Um. No. I really don't want to waste a beach day on empty carbs.

But now that summer is over I'm all for pounding empty carbs and chilling at Molly Sue's.

Call it what you will: you can say I'm pimping myself out, shamelessly promoting myself. Whatever. But know this: I am officially back in action, that is until May. So you have a solid 7.5 months to do what you will with me (erm) so make it count.

Things I am interested in:

• Seeing Body Worlds at the Museum of Science
• Seeing the giant jelly fish at the Museum of Science
• Making glass blown Christmas Ornaments
• Shopping (for me, for you, for your brother, for your grand pappy...)
• Shopping for mass-market cosmetics
• Coffee
• Coffee
• Coffee
• Gin & Tonics

So. Wanna hang out?!?!?!

WTF are they thinking in Colorado?!

Erm. So I make it known that I get my news from CNN.com. By the time I get home or get to the gym I have the option to either watch the news or watch the Red Sox game. And any excuse to watch Jason Varitek squat up and down for hours on end beats having any knowledge of  who dropped what in the Middle East.

So I sign into the the news website every day for my daily fix of national and worldly events. I just signed on a few mins ago and what is the top story listed under Latest News???!!!!

• 15 year old girls can marry, courts rule

I'm sorry......what?!

According to CNN.com and the Associated Press (I'm new to this public blogging thing and I'm giving everyone credit. I'm not trying to get hit with a copywright suit.....or whatever...)

"Colorado is one of 10 states, plus the District of Columbia, that recognize common-law marriage, which is based on English law dating back hundreds of years."

The article went on to say that:

"It appears that Colorado has adopted the common-law age of consent for marriage as 14 for a male and 12 for a female, which existed under English common law," the ruling said. "Nevertheless, we need only hold here that a 15-year-old female may enter into a valid common-law marriage."

This, to me, is horrifying. I think when I was 15, I was working at CVS during the week and during the weekends working at Great Woods (now it's called the Tweeter Center....but to everyone who grew up in Norton or Mansfield...it will always be Great Woods) in the concession stand serving nasty nachos and crusty hot dogs to 21 year olds during Ozz Fest and The Allman Brothers.

There's gonna be a whole lotta this in the Rocky Mountain State:

or worse...maybe this....

"Uuuuh...lisa....EW!!! GROOOOOSSSSSSS-AAAAH!!!"

I know.

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