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Even the animals here are friendly.

As much as I’m really looking forward to getting a new macbook pro (it’s really a lot cheaper here!), I have to say this advertisement is rather good:

Everyone should know I’m a little addicted to notebooks — in all shapes and sizes. And that I’m really anal about my books. Notebook Stories has my heart thumping.

This is the Charles River, just outside of my house here at Cambridge, MA:

The animals are friendly here! :)

Today I:
1. Moved my stuff into the dorm and felt really Asian trying to sterilize everything with wet wipes.

2. Whacked my finger against the window ledge. It’s my left middle finger — which is my favourite finger to wear rings on — but now it’s bruised and swollen.

3. Took the subway — definitely ranks above Paris’s and NYC’s (OMG don’t even get me started), but nothing quite beats the wonder that is SMRT.

4. Went to the gym. Gyms are the same everywhere.

5. On my way to the Thai restaurant for some tom yum soup, I saw:

(i) a demonstration outside the Boston public library; re Iran. “We voted, they killed us”.

(ii) a wedding, at the church next to the library.

Ah, America.

Flew in to boston 8 hours ago; I like it very much already. It’s only been a week, but I do feel like I’ve been out for a month. Hopefully I’ll take a few pictures and post them up soon! :)

Many parts of Paris smell of pee. But OK, I have to admit that the buildings are rather beautiful. Very, in fact. I wish I had photos to show you but… I’m leaving for Frankfurt in a few hours.

So, we really needed Britain’s Supreme Court of Judicature to tell us this: Pringles are Potato Chips

The story’s rather simple: P&G wanted to get out of paying $160 million for selling potato-based products, lawyers thought a bit, and argued that Pringles aren’t potato chips!

This is a rather good quote, though:

A tyro thinks to puzzle you by asking you where you are going to draw the line and an advocate of more experience will show the arbitrariness of the line proposed by putting cases very near it on one side or the other.

So, Shanghai is buying itself a major makeover before the 2010 Expo. Hopefully they’ll do something about the air too. Then we can all finally breathe easy in that part of the world again. I miss Shanghai from time to time, just not its air. :(

Very Pop tonight! I hope people care more about art than they let on.