"Allow myself to introduce...myself!"
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Finally, I've come up with my "getting to know you" post, a theme that has been making the rounds. I was trying to craft just what I had to share with you guys and so I went digging into my brain and here's what came up.
- I'm on Shotgun.tv!
- I started watching MTV when I was about 2 and used to want to be Tina Turner, and I had a Boy George poster behind my high chair. The more I think about these two small things, the more it makes sense for who I am today.
- Favorite boy band members: New Kids on the Block - Jordan Knight, N Sync - JC, Backstreet Boys - Brian.
- This is my second snow-less winter ever. Confusing...just yesterday I thought it was October for a minute. I'm from Massachusetts and now reside in Oakland, California because one day I decided it was time to move the hell out of Boston. I don't miss having to walk in the freezing cold/snow (and in fact, I am more of a wuss about the cold every day), but I sometimes miss seeing snow, New England architecture, my mom and OJ, my younger brother.
- I live with 2 roommates, one I have known for 18 years (!), and the other I met through her, and he and I have been friends since we were in school in Boston.
- OJ and I used to build forts in the living room, snow forts outside, and then one day I found him and his friends built an igloo just to smoke pot in it...there goes their innocence. Up through high school I was the good kid and he was the baaaaad kid. Sometime since then the tables may have turned...
- High school obsessions were the guys in bands, which did wonders for my music collection, and driving around with friends listening to mostly classic rock radio (102.1FM The Shark!). This is how I wound up seeing (some variation of) Lynyrd Skynyrd/Deep Purple in concert.
- In '06 I graduated from Emerson College with a degree in writing, literature & publishing. My freshman year research paper was about rap videos and I used Jay-Z's "Big Pimpin'" as an example. Column-writing with Jeff Seglin was my favorite class, along with Novel Into Film. Does fine-tuning my gaydar count as an extracurricular? That's a true life skill you can learn at Emerson.
- 30 Rock is my favorite tv show lately. I'm still catching up on Weeds.
- I LOVE food! Sushi, burritos, Indian, Thai, etc... I'll eat anything, even Slim Jims.
- I'm excited to visit my mom in January so I can give her a big hug and make fun of her accent (I've never had a Boston accent but she says "horse" "hoss," "car" "cah," etc.) and see her new holiday purses she's made w/ her trusty old glue gun (same glue gun which OJ burned me with when we were little that left me with a permanent scar on my forearm).
- 25 makes me feel older than it should, and does anyone else feel like it's a second puberty?
Comments (44)
Another east coast thing I miss is Dunkin Donuts!!!!:
Hey Brittany, I used to live in little old Sturbridge Mass and every once in a while I'd go in to Boston to see a band or The Nutcracker!
Nice "getting to know you" post..
I'm also an East Coast to West Coast transplant--going on 3 years now and it would take an act of God to make me move back.
My roommate went to Emerson also, BTW.
Nice post I am feeling a little overwhelmed by all the writers on MOG. always have enjoyed the excitement you have shown here.
darmuzz, oh good old Sturbridge Village! Actually I think I have only been to Plymouth Plantation. It was funny this year, how excited a West Coaster got to celebrate Thanksgiving with a Massachusetts-bred person such as myself (except I don't look like a pilgrim!). I feel like if I saw The Nutcracker here it'd feel out of season with no snow.
astronot, ya don't say! I can't picture myself on the east coast either. Life is way too good here. Hmm I wonder if I know of your roommate? That'd make the world really small!
cpetersonart3, thanks for stopping through! i'm really glad you can feel the excitement in my writing.
Oh yeah, 25 is ancient...NOT. Nice to have you around and you do get around this MOG. Never would have guessed Mass., but that's why these posts are so cool.
The "catching up on Weeds" is telling, fellow imbider lol :-) I was just in Boston for only the second time this past summer, and I loved it! Cool city, IMO. Farthest west I've been is Nevada, and tell you the truth I don't think I would ever give up the East Coast...especially if I was lucky enough to ever move up to Maine! I'm not a winter person/skiier/snowboarder or anything, but I think I would miss the little challenges the change of seasons presents. I have to go buy a new set of tires this week because we're gonna get hit with snow this weekend supposedly, and it's not a good time to be buying anything, so, yeah, there are advantages to living in a fair(er) weather climate, but I would miss the snow too :-) And, I would miss NYC! And Maxwell's in Hoboken :-) :-)
Mmmmm . . . Dunkin Donuts . . .
I'll bet your mom can't wait to see you eithah!!! She'll probably back her "cahhh" out of the "gharahge", go down the driveway which is wicked icy! Drive to "Bohston"...and if she goes by "Hahhvahd"...she's gone the wrong way...! She'll be at "Lohgan Ahaport" "pahked" in the cell phone "pakhing lot" and when you come out will give you a wicked big hug!!!
Cody B, I don't seem like a Mass type? Yeah not really.
GarageRock, haha. It's not often I hear people like Boston particularly. How refreshing! I'll always feel east coast.
Groon, I'm daydreaming of their bagels and veggie cream cheese!
Guad, hahaha you're probably wicked right about all of that!
Nicely done, brit! From our kitchen to yours:
well, maybe that just makes things worse??....
Does fine-tuning my gaydar count as an extracurricular? That's a true life skill you can learn at Emerson.
this got me laughing outright! boston is cold and salty right now, but the coffee is good
25 is definitely a second puberty for women. That's the transition from care-free to "Oh, my GOD, I'm still single with no kids! What will I do? Must find a husband!!!" :D
Thus my rule to not date any women over 25.
i agree on both counts: JC Chasez is the best of the nsync bunch (always had a huge crush on him...Justin can kiss my ass :P); and yes, 25 does feel incredibly old...not as old as realizing you're not even 25 but about to be 26, but still very old...
scott, YUMMMY! one of each please!
rob, hahaha. it's true! you've crossed through the corner of the commons that is pretty much emerson's "campus"...see what i mean? happy to provide some laughs for ya. oooh, i forgot about how annoying it is to have dried up salt staining the bottom of your pants.
troy, not just that but even my guy friends are confused. it's figuring out how to act "like an adult" part that suxx.
cali, i went a little anti-JC once he started dating tara reid, hahaha but he held my heart for a good while! i'm glad you hear me on this 25 thing. i gots growing pains!
hahaha, i know, at first I was startled by the gradually increasing beeping noise, but then I relaxed, it was just my gaydar. i also have a geesedar for avoiding droppings, so both of those go alittle nuts simultaneously as I cross the common
don't even get me started on salt britt, my shoes are not happy about it
I lost all respect for JC after that all day long I dream about sex video. HA HA, but hit me up when you come to the east coast, I'll buy you some D&D.
rob, ahhhaha!!! multiple beeping territory. you're lucky you have the geesedar. i never got that one :)
greg: sweeet! thanks, i can't turn down D&D! about JC, i dont think i saw that video but i kind of remember it happened...
Acting like an adult is highly over-rated. I can't be bothered with it.
Do I get extra cool points for knowing which jackass said, "Allow myself to introduce...myself"?
haha hell yeah! i was actually waiting to see who would know where that line is from. let 'em all know, troy!
lol...I think we'll just let that be an inside thing, but great title. I had to laugh at that one. And I think there's only one person on the planet who could say something like that and actually pull it off. "Ladies and gentlemen...allow myself...to introduce...MYSELF!" To this day, one of my favorite tracks.
what we lack in Dunkin Donuts we make up for in Krispy Kremes!
Krispy Kreme beats Dunkin Donuts any day!
I've lived on the East Coast for a good portion of my life and could never understand the fascination with D&D...Y'all West Coasters have so many coffee shops that make their own doughnuts..that's what I like. Fer instance that place down the block from Amoeba in SF (if it's still there): I had eclairs (they called 'em long johns) for lunch everyday.
hahh, long johns? i didnt know eclair was an east coast terminology. my fascination is that i'm more in it for the bagels and veggie cream cheese than the donuts, and when it's summer blueberry iced coffees are what's UP. it was a huge deal when krispy kreme opened in boston but i think at least one of their locations there has since closed down. isn't krispy kreme a southern thing?
KK is a southern thing..all the NYC outlets moved away, though I did like them (a lot). D&D bagels...eeek. You can be jailed in Brooklyn for getting bagels from them. I have two shops less than a rock throw from my house that make their own bagels.
Fatburger and In-n-Out Burger make up for no D&D, in my book.
funniest post title in this getting-to-know-you thread.
Tina Turner? girl, you are so black you don't even know it. (;
i am also still finetuning my gaydar but it's gotten much better in the last few years. one of my best friends has somehow always ended up falling in love with someone gay so, yeah, i've had practice.
and 35 will feel like a third puberty. darn, it never ends.
You forgot to mention that there were two "BrittanyF.s" in your high school. One was you...the other just became Paris Hilton's BFF!
Wow. 25, eh? Pushing on. Thought about moving to Florida? Be around people your own age? I believe they get a little sun there. You'd like that.
Great post. (I'm not receiving your notifications so I'm glad I stopped by.) But...whatcha mean you're on Shogun.tv? I like that store.
cody, i know it's bad...total guilty pleasure!
chris, ahh In N Out is possibly my favorite fast food ever. Fatburger is cool cuz it's funny that bay area rapper E-40 has an endorsement with them but i've only been to one in San Diego.
ilay, "Tina Turner? girl, you are so black you don't even know it." HAhahha!! this should be my bad day mantra..i'll just repeat your words in my head over and over. as far as gaydar goes, yeah i'm up there with kathy griffin! ...and 35..oyy, at least it still sounds far away!
Fluxy, hahaha. Florida, oh lord. Please show me to the nearest old folks home and grab my cane for me, will ya?
So you know the Shotgun store? I am on the homepage, in the window where the photo changes right at the top, and you get to say your favorite brand. Make sure to hit the pause button and look for a girl with a watermelon. Tell me if you find it!
Ha! I found you! A model in our midst. Very cool. ;)
PS. Notice how I resisted the melon jokes? I like to keep it classy.
Hahaha, sparing the melon jokes. you're so good, Colin.
the designer is a friend of mine and i've "modeled" for him before under his old label "Faux Couture" - fancy that!
Designer? I thought Shotgun had moved into the fruit & veg game. I ordered 14 of those melons this morning! :(
So, do you ever NOT wear sunglasses?
Colin, you'll look great wearing the fashion melons! ;)
Troypowers, only when I'm eating...
awesome. knew you were right for the gig.
Wow, you DO have eyes!
Well...kinda. :D
haha i know right. i started looking for pictures w/o sunglasses and there were a lot where i'm smiling too big and i got no eyes! hah!
I lived in Boston for 10 years and met my wife there ... love the town, but it is kind of small and provincial and after 10 years, well, it was _done - if you know what I mean. (if you don't, that's cool too... Beantowners fall in to one of two camps!)
Cheers!
Van
Right on, Van! 5 years was my max haha.
LOL!! I was done after school, but it took another 5 or so to pry my wife away, but she feels the same way now too... :)
I've gotta say, 25 didn't feel old, my approaching 35 isn't feeling old, and feels better than 25. Maybe I didn't have enough fun when younger... I was kind of glad to see snow again (apart from the Sierras) here in the UK after 6 years in Sacramento.
Oh, hello there! I am actually looking forward to being 35. Seems a lot better than 25 (which does have its good aspects as well), but I'm in no hurry to get there - will be ready when it hits me! As nights get colder in the Bay Area I keep telling myself to buck up, so I'll not be so bad when I touch down on the east coast. I think it will take a lot of scarves to keep my poor bones warm!