Jenn Martinelli Blogging in Boston

This makes me laugh. Not just because Dan thinks he's old but because Korn thinks they're allowed to put out a greatest hits album. Who are they kidding?

I was in love with you for a little while, what with your free wireless (or wired, your choice) internet access, your big nice reading room where people can go to get work done, your excellent location, and your new little cafes.

But then you have to go and do stupid stuff like put a zillion limitations on your internet access and rent yourself out to private functions that shut the library down for the public. The PUBLIC library. Not open to the public. Nice.

Just cut it out already. It's ridiculous. Aren't you supposed to be about free access to information? Yeah.

I think I've had too much soda. I don't think I'll have trouble falling asleep but I'm also not particularly sleepy at the moment.

OK, I'm making myself and Rob Reed go to sleep now. We had a crazy snowstorm this weekend and they initially did a good job of clearing the snow but now the roads are mush and apparently they aren't going to plow again. Doing laundry tonight was very very annoying (have to walk to the laundromat).

It's supposed to snow more tomorrow too. Fantastic.

Especially now that I've posted some old scanned photos with miscellaneous characters in them, check out my Cast of Characters!

Here is just the beginning of a lot of old photos I have to scan into the computer and post. Enjoy. The worst are definitely still to come.

At least that's what it says in this article. Billy didn't want to go too far to do his business this morning, that's for sure. We don't want to be trapped inside all day either, and it's fortunate that we live right downtown so we don't have far to go to get anywhere, but I'm not sure how many places might be closed and/or how impractical it might be to get places anyway. I guess you just walk in the middle of the road.

To help you slog your way through my boring posts where I drone on and on about my boring life, here is a place where I'll be keeping little bios/info pages about the people I talk about. Enjoy!

Apparently the judge in this case has lost his f-ing mind.

What kind of utter insanity makes someone think that it's OK to make a woman stay married to a guy who's in jail for beating her, just because she's pregnant? (And it's not even his baby, by the way.) Aren't there cases where children are taken out of homes because of abusive parents? So why, if this guy is proven to be abusive, would you make the mother stay with him? It's just totally nuts. What a lunatic.

Here are some common mistakes certain of us make. Not me of course.

Other mistakes I don't make include wearing underwear that sits 6 inches above the waistline of my pants. Would the rest of you please stop making this mistake? Thanks. Especially the girl who works at the Starbucks on School Street in Boston. She seems to enjoy showing the world her undies. Not what I want to see when I'm getting coffee, thanks.

My crazy parents decided to round out their cruise last week with some emergency room trips. Well, they didn't actually decide, it just worked out that way.

First my mom had something in her eye scratching her cornea that she couldn't get out. It eventually came out on its own but an opthalmologist gave her some drops for the abrasion and in the meantime they were up at 5am on Saturday to get off their ship first before everyone else so my mom could get to the emergency room in New Orleans. Then they drove home to Knoxville and around midnight my mom had chest pains and they went to the emergency room in Knoxville. Luckily it was stomach related and not her heart but they did lots of tests. She thinks it might have been withdrawal from the anti-motion sickness patch she'd been wearing on their trip. It can cause withdrawal.

Oh, Mom! Settle down! Quit causing trouble! Geez!

My first one: get my freaking apartment and life in order. On that note, I'm off to clean the kitchen and the turtle's tank. We started off the new year with all clean clothes as all our laundry got done the morning of new year's eve. So that's a good start.