2008-07-26

The Golden Jade

Anyone know what's up with The Golden Jade on Broadway?
That was one of my favourite Chinese places, and when I went today to get lunch, I was met with tons of boxes outside of ketchup packets and other things and a guy yelling at me telling me they're closed.
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Runaway pupper!

Crossposted to my own journal, just in case.
At right around 9 am today, my neighbour and i were taking a left from Broadway onto Willow when a pug* RAN across the street, narrowly avoiding being hit by a car or two, and took off down Willow like a bat out of hell.  Not the normal, "i'm a bad puppy" run, but, "RUN RUN RUN THEY'RE GOING TO GET ME RUN!!!!!" 

My neighbour saw a  woman in a purple tshirt running after him, but she was down Bristol, i think, and really had no way of knowing he went straight down Willow.  We saw zero evidence he was fleeing Stinky's, BTW, before someone suggests that. 

So we kept him in sight as we drove, watching him run in front of more than one car.  He seems to tire around the ped path, so i jumped out and tried to get him. Nope, he ran back up Willow and took a left on Morrison.  No way was i going to catch him, but as i got back in the car, a different woman in a purple shirt asked which way he had gone, and said she knew the dog and his family, and that he was spooked by bikes after seeing their own dog get hit last week.  (As a cyclist, this breaketh my heart, not knowing if her own dog is all right.)

So, does anybody reading this know if Pupper on the Run was returned to his family?  Did anyone see him charging around?  He was pretty normal looking for a pug - short, muscular, tan/brindle coloured without any major markings, but black skin around the face and eyes.

Just hoping for a happy ending.

(We needed to be somewhere on time, so we couldn't linger and/or chase him any longer than we did.)

*I think he was a pug, or a pug mix. I'm not as familiar with small dog breeds. 

cheap to a good home....

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local pay for adjuncts

Hi all--

I'm going to be interviewing for adjunct teaching jobs. I am very new to Massachusetts, so I have no idea what to expect as far as salary. If anyone here has adjuncted (I'll be in English, btw), can you tell me roughly what you got paid per course?

Down south it seemed to usually be around $3000/course, but I also paid $315/month for a 1-BR apartment there. *rent nostalgia*
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Free Museum Entrance - Sat. Sept. 27th - Must sign up online

Hey, folks--

The Smithsonian is sponsoring a free museum day on Saturday, September 27th.  Local museums participating include the MFA, Museum of Science and Harvard Museum of Natural History.  The ticket admits two.

Go to http://microsite.smithsonianmag.com/museumday/ to sign up.