CityLurve: Cambridge

usually i don't like cambridge, because it's a schlep from my little nook in brighton, and because it involves the red line and almost no other reliable public transportation (the 86 doesn't count because it starts out great from here but somehow gets messed up on the way back), and because harvard and mit aren't necessarily so much some of the best universities in the nation as suppliers of stupid boys who break promises, and because it's where i sprained my ankle due to awful brickwork, and because it's the other side of the river and who wants that, especially when the best view of the 4th of july fireworks is from the esplanade!?, and because it's fly-over country en route to somerville, and because of the hellish traffic i encountered there on my commute home 5 days a week for 9 or 10 months...

but despite all that, there is lurve. because yesterday will, shabad, liz and i went to the gap and bought some awesome tops/shirts -- that we then left on a bus stop bench when we got on the 86. and when will and i decided to go back on a last-ditch off-chance to look for the bag, we found it sitting there, right where we left it, having been opened and pawed around in, but there nevertheless.

it might have happened in brighton, too -- but it happened in cambridge, and anyway brighton doesn't have too many quaint-looking wooden bus stop benches... so cambridge gets plus points.

(but not too many.)