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...perhaps Joel is crying on the inside. Perhaps he's curled up on the couch at home, eating chocolate ice cream straight out of the carton and torturing himself with a baleful inner monologue about democracy, popularity and the price you pay for chauvinism...
...ride around town in a car decorated with advertising, you're in luck. Several new companies in California, such as Autowraps and MyFreeCar, are paying people $200 to $500 a month for driving their own vehicles around town emblazoned with ads from companies like Yahoo and Dreyer's ice cream. Not everyone will qualify; you gotta have a nice enough ride and spend plenty of time tooling around the highways...
...there and meet as many people as possible. But don't worry--orientation week friendships are notorious for their impermanence: You won't find your best friend in the first week and you don't have to. All you need is someone to go to the ice cream bash with. Sit down with random people in Annenberg. Attend the Crimson Key screenings of "Love Story"--it is hilarious. (But sit near the front so that you can still hear the actual movie...
...Regional differences even extend themselves to desserts. For example, those candy sprinkles that go on your ice cream at Herrell's are called jimmies. Frappes have ice cream, milkshakes don't. And even though Mike's Pastry is the biggest bakery in the North End, it's nowhere near the best. Locals in the know get their canolis at Modern Pastry on Hanover or at Maria's on Cross Street--if they can navigate around the Big Dig to get there...
...shift, snow--and to be enchanted by the smallest event. "A martini!" my father would say, as if he had not mixed it himself. "Pie a la mode!"--with a lusty accent on "mode," as if he were recalling a village in France and not a scoop of ice cream...