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August will rock the me in Boston. Now, which college can I pretend to visit and get a free night's stay?

I see there's a Coastal Management conference in New Orleans in July. That could put me in about the right place at about the right time...unfortunately my wife has got in first and we're going to a conference for her in NZ in May. 2 conference trips in a year may be hard to swing - shame - I'd really love to go to New Orleans too.

Anyway - it's a long shot - but I'll see what I can do.

The White Hat wrote:August will rock the me in Boston. Now, which college can I pretend to visit and get a free night's stay?

Boston's not much of a college town. But I'd recommend Amherst, they're fancy.

edit: scratch that, Amherst is two hours from Boston. Just go with U-Mass. You can sing the Pixies song.

Caravan Ray wrote:I see there's a Coastal Management conference in New Orleans in July. That could put me in about the right place at about the right time...unfortunately my wife has got in first and we're going to a conference for her in NZ in May. 2 conference trips in a year may be hard to swing - shame - I'd really love to go to New Orleans too.

Anyway - it's a long shot - but I'll see what I can do.

Is there a New Orleans near Boston, or does your post have nothing to do with the topic?

jb wrote:

Caravan Ray wrote:I see there's a Coastal Management conference in New Orleans in July. That could put me in about the right place at about the right time...unfortunately my wife has got in first and we're going to a conference for her in NZ in May. 2 conference trips in a year may be hard to swing - shame - I'd really love to go to New Orleans too.

Anyway - it's a long shot - but I'll see what I can do.

Is there a New Orleans near Boston, or does your post have nothing to do with the topic?

Closer to Boston than Brisbane is.

Anyway, it only seems to be about 1500km - about the same as Brisbane to Townesville - 'just down the road' as far as I'm concerned

mkilly wrote:edit: scratch that, Amherst is two hours from Boston. Just go with U-Mass.

UMass Amherst, maybe?

I would suggest Berklee except they are stingy bastards with their sleeping space.

mkilly wrote:Boston's not much of a college town. But I'd recommend Amherst, they're fancy.

um, you're kidding, right? boston and cambridge are like the epicenter of education. there are the obvious big ones (harvard, m.i.t., boston university) and also a ton of lesser known ones (umass boston, boston college, emerson, cambridge college, tufts, massachusetts college of art, new england institute of art, etc).

I would hit up Harvard because their dorms are nicer than MIT's, and plus you'd be in Harvard Square when you weren't rocking out.

the idiot king wrote:

mkilly wrote:Boston's not much of a college town. But I'd recommend Amherst, they're fancy.

um, you're kidding, right? boston and cambridge are like the epicenter of education. there are the obvious big ones (harvard, m.i.t., boston university) and also a ton of lesser known ones (umass boston, boston college, emerson, cambridge college, tufts, massachusetts college of art, new england institute of art, etc).

Man. idiot king, have you never seen This is Spinal Tap?

Ian Faith: The Boston gig has been cancelled...
David St. Hubbins: What?
Ian Faith: Yeah. I wouldn't worry about it though, it's not a big college town.

There's a fine line between clever and stupid.

None of the dates in June would work for me (school and Europe respectively). But July and August are fine.

Thanks for picking dates when the Red Sox are home.

If any of you kids are going to be in Boston this weekend, you should check out the Spinto Band playing at 10 Moore Street on Saturday.

I don't really know what the deal is, but it seems like it's a house party with a fancy website: http://www.10moorestreet.com/ . So yeah, party?

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mkilly wrote:
Man. idiot king, have you never seen This is Spinal Tap?

Ian Faith: The Boston gig has been cancelled...
David St. Hubbins: What?
Ian Faith: Yeah. I wouldn't worry about it though, it's not a big college town.

i have, but i was too overtired to catch the reference.

July and August rock. That also gives me more 'fights to actually try and write for between now and then.

Yay, songfight boston. I'd like to play this show, please.

Can I play drums for you?

john m wrote:Can I play drums for you?

only if he can play drums for YOU.

Anyways, It would be nice to finally meet you mister SS.

Of course, I'm banking on being there...but it's gonna be tight financially.

woOt! I'm gonna be off work for paternity leave in July and August, so I'm almost certainly gonna be there!

I am jazzed at the prospect of puttin' faces to the namez, yo.

Whoo HOO!

TheHipCola wrote:woOt! I'm gonna be off work for paternity leave in July and August, so I'm almost certainly gonna be there!

The baby's not born yet, right?

I hope I'm wrong, but that looks like a sentence that may come back to haunt you

(NB: last night was my 7th wedding anniversary - which we spent at a 5-star hotel in the city. Much of the evening was spent walking around the hotel lobby trying to calm a screaming 6-month-old who had taken a violently irrational dislike to her baby-sitter)

CR,

I hope you are wrong too...we did have a miscarriage a year ago, and I of course had told everyone under the sun...you'd think I'd learn!

Oh well...nature is nature, what will be will be...I'm exuberantly confident I guess!

I still plan to be there either way!

Cheers!

TheHipCola wrote:CR,

I hope you are wrong too...we did have a miscarriage a year ago, and I of course had told everyone under the sun...you'd think I'd learn!

Oh well...nature is nature, what will be will be...I'm exuberantly confident I guess!

I still plan to be there either way!

Cheers!

I'm sure everything will go well - I just meant that once baby arrives, a lot of you plans may go out the window!

good luck

john m wrote:Can I play drums for you?

Yes, that would be quite good.