A Saturday Afternoon (in photos)

tea at higher ground with michael.

walk to old city. Book Trader finds. (and a small gift for someone...)

Meet with Min Hee, buy these from Urban. 

Acquire these items from Anthropologie 

Buy Intelligentsia loose leaf organic earl grey and a new tea infuser from De Bruno Brothers. 

buy my perfume and mascara at Sephora. 

Gelato at Capogiro (Apple/Tangerine) Min Hee got Avocado/Chocolate Malt 

at this point, we go our separate ways (but shared a wonderful day with a new friend!) I train it to Spring Garden and meet Justin and his friends at Arbol Cafe where Oscar, the owner greets me with a warm "Ti Kanis?" (Although Oscar is Paraguayan, he once worked at a Greek restaurant) 

More tea and conversation. 

Home. (In time to make dinner with a new friend)

Letters from Mikey

Let me preface this by explaining one of my dearest friendships. Michael Audette and I became friends in the ninth grade. We took Mr Bianca's social studies class together and became good friends by way of his friendships with Courtney Ober and Megan Smith (I believe we sat at the same lunch table at some point freshman year). Somewhere along the line, Mikey and I started seeing concerts together. My dad would drive us one way, his dad would usually drive us back (as far as worcester haha). Some of my fondest memories of these trips include..acquiring as many bouncy balls as possible and letting them loose in enclosed spaces. playing wall ball at the Palladium. Seeing American Nightmare...and living to tell about it. Watching Mike and his dad eat quarter pounders at a rest stop. Listening to Coheed and Cambria for the first time from an Equal Vision sampler..and kind of liking it.  

Things have changed a bit since I was 14 years old. I can't believe we've been friends for ten years ha. Mike has the worst and best luck ever (being struck by lightning...etc etc) Is the only person I know to have ever been admitted into a fraternity (at UMASS none the less) without drinking a drop of alcohol. Rode to Philly on a motorcycle from massachusetts once. Has owned more $25 dollar cars and white guitars than anyone I know. Has painted the Green Monster in his room..(almost to scale and with incredible precision). and he is one of my closest friends...

That said, Mikey has been sending me letters and packages over the last couple of months. I've decided to share them on the interweb in a series I'm calling Letters from Mikey. 

I received the following about a month ago:

(the dinosaur image is a tshirt.)