Everyone Loves a Boston Girl

In an effort to begin our “try something new every week,” we went to Ryles Jazz Club in Cambridge last night. I’ve never been to a jazz club before and I have to say, while it wasn’t quite my crowd of people, it was a lot of fun. I’m not crazy into jazz so I was pretty surprised by how much I enjoyed the music. Legit could not sit still in my seat. There wasn’t a dance floor but some people got up and danced anyway. I wanted to, but didn’t due to the fact that the people dancing were a bit odd, or were pro dancers and would have made me look like a fool.

Anyway, my roommate’s sister is looking to have her wedding reception at Ryles so we went with her to check it out and enjoy a low-key Friday night. I think this place would be a lot of fun if we got a big group of friends to go to. Or it would be a super cute place to have a date. Maybe not a first date though as it can get pretty loud. But it seriously made me want to listen to more jazz. I think a lot of people have the misconception that jazz is slow, boring, Sunday morning type music. I figured out this wasn’t true after seeing Dave Brubeck in Chautauqua a while back, who was amazing. But I still never really think about listening to it often. I love that everyone in the band seemed to be having so much fun. The saxophone player was amazing. And every song with lyrics was about drinking/getting drunk. Gotta love it.

Game six tonight…let’s hope Schilling can pull it off! I have a lot of homework this weekend; tons of writing and editing, but luckily it’s all stuff I enjoy and am obsessed with doing. And I’m obviously squeezing in some quality Sox time. I’m in the middle of reading a million books right now but I just got Eat, Pray, Love and I can’t wait to start it.