Nice Place this Druid

Here is a picture of the entrance of Druid. Very nice place. It feels like a Starbucks but with beer instead. Wireless Internet and very small. Not very crowded. I may return here. I had a burger which was better than the one at Cambridge Common. 

Geek... but with style!!!

I'm waiting here at the Druid for my friend. Nice bar/restaurant. Small and cosy. But I couldn't feel more geek than this. I'm drinking one beer and while he is not here also writing some Java code. The bar has Internet connection so I can test my crawler.

Druid

I'm leaving work to meet a friend from MIT. Dinner at the Druid.

Time is relative.

When I got here I had a lot of time in my hands but as I get more and more involved with research in the lab I find that time is moving faster. I don't quite have the time I had at first. I know I'm in the physics department but relativity should not be applicable just because of that, right? lol.

Just some thoughts

(email sent to my landlord. I was very upset at that time)

John,

I'm sorry to be writing this long email to you but it has been now 20 days since I got here and I thought I'd let you know my impressions.

Despite all my questions to you regarding the house, cleanness of the guys living here, maintenance of the house, etc. What I found was completely the opposite of what I was given the impression.

Here are a few things:

• the bathrooms are so dirty that they get to be unbearable. I got to the point that I prefer to stay at work as long as possible just to make sure I don't have to use the bathrooms here. I have used them only when I don't have another option. And for that I had to buy wipes and clean it to a minimum. Note that the little cleaning I've done is of mess that was not mine.
• When I asked you said that the house was maintained clean. I found quite the opposite. I had to clean my room when I arrived even though the least I'd expect was to get a clean room. I had to buy a broom just to do that. The house has so much dirt on the stairs and entrance that makes me think it hasn't been cleaned in months if not years.
• the shower still doesn't work. But this I already told you.
• the kitchen is also a problem. Today I took the trash out because in 20 days the trash only accumulated and no one took it out. 20 days of trash!! Again I'm talking about trash that is not mine. I keep my on trash in the room and take it out every two days. I only took part of the trash today because of the smell of it. I'm yet to use the kitchen because I don't have the guts to do it. Call me picky but I lived in college dorms but this much worse. The result is that I'm having to spend more money to eat out every day.

Nothing of the above was communicated to me when I inquired about the unit. In fact you told me only excellent things about the state of the house. I guess this is partially my fault for renting a place via the Internet. Lesson learned. I'm starting to regret the moment I rented this room. It is awful to spend 45 minutes on the T each way to get to here and to this kind of condition.

I'm also wondering what is going to happen when the cold goes away. Given the amount of trash/dirt in this house I'm starting to think that we'll have mice/rats around. I hope I'm wrong.

Again sorry for the long email. I also wish I didn't have to write it.

Your check is on the fridge.

Ronaldo