Labor day and Stupid Day in one weekend!

[urbpan]

I celebrated the long Stupid Day weekend by going out every night and having fun.  Haven't done that in ages.  I'm left wanting another weekend to lay around the house with the wife.

Stupid Day, in case you missed my posts from past years, is when a quarter of a million young people flood into the city and don't leave for eight months or so.  Tragically, many of them bring their automobiles.  The result is a small city that feels infinitely more congested, impatient, and yes, stupid.  It makes us year-round Bostonians appreciate the summer so much.  We appear to have made it through Stupid Day without the traditional crashing of a moving van into a low clearance overpass on Storrow Drive, but I can personally attest to the decorating of all side streets near colleges (that's the whole city pretty much) with double parked cars and trucks.  I can't blame our new temporary residents for the chill in the air (I wore my hooded sweatshirt all day), or the fact that sunset appeared to come up on us an hour earlier.  It's still techinically Summer for three more weeks, but in a city defined by its schools, September first very much marks the end.

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[dosboof.livejournal.com]

"We appear to have made it through Stupid Day without the traditional crashing of a moving van into a low clearance overpass on Storrow Drive"

Oh, there's still a few hours left. We're in the double-bonus round now that it's dark and they're tired out, too. I have hope one will pull through with the annual sardine-canned truck.

[scottytoo.livejournal.com]

I live in a student community myself as well. That is to say, a neighbourhood where they party, live, etc. I have to remind my friends that we were there once, or some place like it. That, and don't blame the kids for a poorly planned community.

My stupid day party this year was the best one yet!

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

the scale of the invasion is pretty much unfathomable unless you experience it.

in our immediate area (within < 3 miles of our house):
boston university, 30,000
simmons college, 5,000
northeastern (boston campus), 20,000
the museum school, 1,000
mass art, 1,500
boston college, 15,000
emerson, 4,000
tufts, 10,000
harvard, 20,000
harvard medical school, 1,500
MIT, 10,000

so, about 120,000 kids.

[candent.livejournal.com]

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We appear to have made it through Stupid Day without the traditional crashing of a moving van into a low clearance overpass on Storrow Drive,

Damn!

[mildmannered.livejournal.com]

I myself participated in the Stupid Day Allston-Brighton Moving Truck Slalom Three Point Challenge, from which I managed to escape with a respectable time.

I've enjoyed your lj so much thru my Florida exile, now that I live in Brookline again, I'd love to buy you coffee. How about it?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I prefer bourbon, but coffee can be nice! Sure, what do you have in mind?