Have I said it enough?  I love my job!  I went to Boston for work training from August 8th to 13th.  My friend, Beth, and I were in training with 3 other people, so it was a great learning experience in such a small atmosphere.  Luckily, we have all had previous publishing experience, so the training was pretty even keel.  With my position as an Associate Editor, I will primarily deal with professors and Field Editors in helping Professors get their perfect custom textbook.  I love it, and I am so excited.

During the day, we had our training from 8 to 5.  After that, we would have the evenings mostly to ourselves.  Beth and I took the same flight and arrived around 4:00 pm on Sunday.  I have never been to Boston, so I had asked a few people for some suggestions.  An old high school friend recommended Abe & Louie’s, which was a steak place.  The filet?  TO DIE FOR!

I had a lot of oysters, which was heavenly!  My biggest want was to go see Harvard.  When I was a kid, I had an old Harvard sweatshirt, so I had to see the place with all the hype.  We ended up going there 2 nights since we missed most of the shopping on Night #1.  Apparently all of the shops close at 6pm.  What is that all about?  Harvard Yard was beautiful.  I really loved it and felt a wee bit smarter in my few hours of being on campus.  I just love the atmosphere.  Oh college how I miss thee.

I also enjoyed going to Modern Pastry, which was on the North End.  They had this “lobster claw,” which was a pastry filled with whipped cream.  I have had many delicious things in my life, but this really took the cake!  I honestly slept with it next to my pillow.  Mmmmmm!

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Ummm I just lost all stream of consciousness since I saw a copy of the new Rolling Stone cover with the True Blood hotties on the cover.  If I still had the Wall of Shame, I would happily make a large space available for this.  I will say that True Blood has been a helluva lot better this season.  The weird thing about watching it now?  The fact that Sookie and Bill are so into it.  Like those people are getting married.  I am kind of watching them have sex.  Like wow.  Oh Eric Northman, I love you!!!

Speaking of sex, now on to my new girl-crush of the moment.  After seeing Dear John a few months ago, I just have found Amanda Seyfried beguiling.  Sure, she has Gollum eyes and milky white skin, but I just KNOW she’s a FREAK and a SASS.  That is how I like my girl crushes.  I rented Chloe (which was God Awful) but it confirmed that her body is slamming.  I need a body like that.  Speaking of that, I got a new sweat sauna suit, which is horrible and disgusting.  I used it yesterday, and yep, totally hate it as I did years ago.

In other news, I have been working on my parents Christmas present.  I bought a VCR/DVD combo and MAC software.  So far I have converted all of our old family home movies.  It has been great seeing the past.  Charlie was so adorable as a kid.  I miss when he was a sweet little boy.  I won’t lie, but I have totally teared up a bit when I see bits with me and Phoenix.  Thank God I outgrew the ugly duckling phase.