With defeat of the legislative attempt to get a ballot question calling for an end to gay marriage looking pretty certain, Shelley says:

Once again, I'm happy to live in Massachusetts.

That still leaves the citizen-initiated petition, but the earliest that could get on the ballot would be 2008.

Sarah groans at 8 a.m.:

Gin & Tonics until 1AM seemed like a good idea at the time...

However now i wish i was dead.

Beth thinks that rather than watching today's loss due to a sleeping offense and a home run by a steroid-using cheater, she would have been better off giving herself:

a radical appendectomy with nothing but a pair of rusty scissors and some embroidery thread.

And when she starts feeling like that, she knows it's time to take a few days off to chill.

Evan, though, is feeling a bit better about it all - after all, look who's still in first place:

... In the last eight games, we have gotten five great performances, and only one bad performance. Our starting pitching is starting to come around, and at the right time. Our bullpen is recieving tremendous rest, and as a whole, our pitching is simply clicking. It only took all year, but it's clicking. ...

Newly arrived from Los Angeles for graduate study, Jessie notices a difference between the two cities in a parking garage:

... On level 2B (not to be confused with 2A), someone had written underneath 2B "OR NOT TO BE." How original. What cracks me up about this whole thing is that - in L.A., it's easy to come across graffiti that is unreadable, or makes absolutely no sense. But in Boston, where the concentration of schools of higher learning are more concentrated than Starbucks coffeehouses on the street corners in Seattle, graffiti is "smart" and readable. ...

Also see:
Urban hieroglyphics