How Is It Hotter Here Than N.C.?

Well pretty much all I can think about the past couple of days is the weather. Today on weather.com it said it was 97 degrees in Boston, and the humidity made it feel worse than that. Then again I don't need a website to tell me its sweltering. I couldn't sleep last night because it was amazingly still 82, I have no air conditioning, and not a molecule of air is moving through my open window. Enough complaining, but I just never thought it would actually be 10 degrees hotter here than it is in N.C.!

This week has been pretty cool besides the equatorial climate (no pun intended). On Sunday and Tuesday I volunteered through work at special performance of the Boston Pops called Edge fest. Symphony Hall is gorgeous and it was a really awesome experience. The Pops played by themselves for 20 min. both nights and they performed songs from West Side Story... which wouldn't have meant anything to me except I had just seen the N.C. School of the Arts put it on in May. Then they played original scores by special composers. The main performance was with Cowboy Junkies and Hem, respectively. The Pops played the band's music with a full orchestra and the band themselves... a really great effect! Hem was definitely more my style. Their sound is melancholic and folksy although the band is from Brooklyn. I have already downloaded half their songs on iTunes. The part of the performance I was helping with was the pre, intermission, and post performances by up-and-coming artists sponsored by OurStage.As if being in Symphony Hall with an all-access pass and listening to the Pops perform wasn't enough, I went to the VIP after-party on Tuesday hosted by Paste magazine. Wait, let me rephrase that... I helped work the door (controlled the door, the guest list, the wristbands, etc.) Although I guess the crowd can't be too rowdy if you let a couple of interns hold down the door. Keith Lockhart, the Pops conductor was there, as was Paul Oakenfold, probably the world's most famous DJ and lots of other Boston big-wigs. After the after-party... Lailaa, Kelly, Katie and I (all interns) went around the corner to a place Lailaa knew about since she goes to Northeastern. We stumbled upon a big crowd because it happened to be their karaoke night! Yes, of course we sang.

In other news:
-I have been running along the Charles River several days a week and it is beautiful, especially when it is windy and all the sailboats are out on the water or it is early in the morning and all the crew teams are practicing.
-Because today was the Northeastern co-op interns' last day... the whole office is spending the day tomorrow at Canobie Lake Park, an amusement park in New Hampshire. Yeah I thought N.H. was in the middle of nowhere too, but apparently this place is only 30 miles from Boston. We are meeting at the office at 11 am and then carpooling... how cute is that? Rollercoasters and funnel cakes: here I come! But not in that order.
-One of the people I met at the Scene First Student Film Festival wants Kelly and me to help out on a movie shoot next week while he is in town as the production designer... not sure if we can get off work to do it but we are sure going to try!