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Today featured bashing my leg on a lamppost base hard enough to draw blood, having the quarter peal I'd been psyching myself up for get cancelled after the fire alarm went off earlier in the afternoon,* and the discovery that TeaLuxe in Harvard Square is going out of business, probably because Harvard is on a short-sighted** quest to buy up all of Harvard Square and then systematically remove all local character in favor of chain-store wasteland.

However, practice went well, and I went out for tea with

nineweaving, which was pretty excellent; and bought my brother lots of tea.

* We were doing an afternoon of quarter peals--just for fun/as a learning exercise. This would have been the first time I rang any serious length of Kent, though I've been pushing for it. Anyway, though, during QP #1 either the ringing stirred up enough dust to confuse the fire alarm system, or it simply went haywire. Our sexton did NOT want to risk setting the fire alarm off again if it was the dust, so the rest of the QPs got cancelled. We'll hopefully try again in January.

** And also evil, but I kindof EXPECT that from a large institution in this country

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and the discovery that TeaLuxe in Harvard Square is going out of business

Wait, Crema Café just closed. What am I supposed to drink in Harvard Square now? I can't even step into a Starbucks!

*hugs gently, so as not to aggravate your leg*

Yeah, I'm sad about Tealuxe -- should remember to go there before I leave town. Oh, well, Harvard is going to be kicking me out also anyway...

...Oh right. Hence job applications.
My sympathies at being kicked out of the nest!

I kind've gave up on Harvard Square's uniqueness awhile ago, but i sure did like TeaLuxe. Sigh.

(Ow, leg.)

Sigh. And if TeaLuxe is going (with its many drawers of tea, like a Chinese apothecary, or a cabinet of curiosities), then probably Curious George is going. Damn it.

Nine

It *was* a good practice, and you rang Cambridge Minor without advance notice. Sorry about your leg.

I had been living up here for less than three days when I was told in no uncertain terms by a hip local that "Harvard Square is overrated, Davis Square is where all the *actually* cool things and people are". I was then dragged into a big ol' bookstore next to a beautiful coffee shop and was willing to accept this premise as correct.

So yeah, Harvard's been a wasteland since at least 2007, as far as I'm concerned. ;)

~Sor