What is your favorite place to go in your city?

Daily writing prompt

Boston, Massachusetts. My city. For my entire life it’s been this shining beacon of awesome sitting 20-30 miles to the South. I don’t have a favorite place in the city. I have a hundred favorite places in the city, maybe more. Here are a few of them, my personal highlights if you will.

• Fenway Park
• TD Garden
• Newbury Street
• Boylston Street
• Commonwealth Avenue
• Beacon Street
• Massachusetts Avenue
• Haymarket Square
• Faneuil Hall/Quincy Market
• Everything on the Freedom Trail
  • City Hall
  • Granary Burial Ground
  • Old North Church
  • Old South Meeting House
  • Paul Revere’s House, even though it’s a tough spot to visit if you’re really tall
  • The Old City Hall which currently houses a Ruth’s Chris’ Steak House
  • The Bunker Hill Monument
  • The USS Constitution
• Rose Kennedy Greenway
• Boston Common
• Boston Public Garden
• Cambridge is not Boston, but there are sites that are close enough to include
  • Harvard Square
  • Central Square
• Lansdowne Street
• Kenmore Square
• The North End

Okay… I am going to stop now. There are probably a couple of dozen more places that I love, but if I keep going I am going to spend hours writing this post and I’ll be late for work. Suffice to say that I love the holy hell out of the great city of Boston. There are other cities that I love, but Boston is mine. Boston is home.

What’s the first impression you want to give people?

daily writing prompt

This is a tough one. I don’t think I’ve ever considered it. I think maybe the first impression I want to give depends on the situation. If the first impression I get from someone is “good person” then the first impression I want to give is “good person”. If the first impression I get is “colossal douchebag” then the first impression I want to give is “I think you’re a colossal douchebag, go away”.

I suppose there are a few impressions I’d like to give off when first meeting someone new. Here’s a bit of a list of things.

• I am not a colossal douchebag
• I might be smart, but I am not sure. Hopefully I am smarter than I think I am
• If you are a decent person I will be your ally. If you are a fascist then go die in a fire or something
• I don’t care how you live your life or who you fall in love with or where you or your family come from. I only care that you are happy and content. Unless you are a fascist, in which case you can go eat a great big bag of VD encrusted dicks

Okay… maybe those things are a little too complicated to be first impressions. How about this:

I am nice, even though I am really shy and not very good socially.

Yeah… that’s probably it. That probably sums me up all right.