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• Made it to Boston with only an hour delay despite JetBlue having canceled all flights to NY-area airports, and Logan covered with snow.
• Big Dig seems almost finished, and they've taken down many of the barriers that had separated the North End from the rest of the city. It's almost possible to imagine what it's going to look like when the terraforming above ground is finished.
  
• Relatively quiet St. Patrick's Day with friends in the North End, although a few of us did a late stroll around the core of bars near Quincy Market to look at the drunk people. Kind of like a safari.
  
• Sunday, went to a parade party in Southie. I lived in Somerville for four years and sad to say, I had never even gone to Southie before let alone to the parade. More evidence of how Boston is a city of small neighborhoods. Anyway, I had a great introduction, plus a tour of the neighborhoods of Fort Point and South Boston.
  
• Met up with friends from Cambridge and Somerville, who have formed a support group for women breadwinners and the men staying at home (site to come). Society hasn't entirely adapted to this arrangement, they claim, and this Boston Globe article describes the disparate contribution to housework by women who outearn their husbands. Good thing Scooter doesn't read this blog.
• Went back to the old neighborhood watering hole. No trivia night and none of the regulars around. In retrospect, I'd have preferred to leave it in my memory as it was then, rather than as it was tonight.
• I had been giving some thought to coming back to Boston at some point. The way things go around here, it would probably look like a different city but feel exactly the same.
  

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