My Christmas was nothing special this year. My parents and grandfather gave me $300 of free money. They gave my brother and his girlfriend a trip to Foxwoods.
Yesterday I went to Boston to spend most of that Christmas money. The first place I went was the infoshop I used to work at, the Lucy Parsons Center. A few months ago they finally made the move from the South End to Jamaica Plain (near Jackson Sq., still on the orange line). To make things more meaningful, the first person who trained me, Corry, was the one working there that day. I helped her shelve some of the new books they received in the past days. In return, she let me take whatever books I wanted from the 50-cent book box (which was full of marxist-leninist-maoist texts; I'm assuming they had been donated to the shop by the local PSL chapter). I picked out all three volumes of Marx's Capital. I also purchased a few classic gems which I've been meaning to read: Emma Goldman's memoirs and a few others. I had so many books with me that I ended up breaking the little bag I carried them back in. When I got to this little store in Harvard Sq. to buy a new sweater with the remainder of my Christmas money I asked for a big paper bag for the books. It ended up breaking too (on the T no less). It was a very agitating first-world problem.
My birthday is in less than an hour. Yay for me!
3 comments:
Happy Birthday, Julia!
But damn, that sucks to have your birthday so close to X-mas.
I spent my Christmas in Cleveland finishing up a project in my hotel room. Oh JOY! That's cool cause I'm off to Los Angeles for 3 weeks and then I'm off to Phoenix for nice warm weather and sunny skies:D
Happy birthday!
Ur b-day's sandwiched between X-mas & New Year's! Damn that's a hella of week. Glad that ain't me, cuz that time is a bloated, drunken, consumerist, overly-familYar stupor as it is now.
Hope u had fun though ; D
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