it's almost 6 in the morning and i'm reminded of how weird my neighbors are. the people 2 houses to the right of me are typical mcmansioners with 2 children under the age of 8. the people who live in the other half of my large, creepy victorian that was never meant to house 2 seperate occupants are a creepy economist from bu and his wife who teaches spanish at tufts. they have a hot daughter at dartmouth, but that's irrelevant. they don't mow their yard unless i pay for it, which i do, which is bullshit, since he's totally-tenured.

the bu guy decided it would be a great idea to buy a yellow lab a year ago and not train it whatsoever. now this yellow lab is fully-grown and not trained. whatsoever. so it leaps at you when it sees you.

he also does not believe in leashes. so he walks it daily with no leash. of course an untrained yellow lab wlll run at young chidren(cue dual 7-series owning people 2 houses down) which it does with frightening regularity. so mcmansionguy screams at aloof academicguy most of the spring to "leash that dog". which he does not because his wife thinks it's "inhumane". so the battle continues.


starting in june, mcmansionguy starts calling cambridge pd everytime he sees "henry" walking the lab. somehow i've become the intermediary on this situation with mcmansionguy confiding "next time the dog knocks over my daughter, i'm going to shoot it before it exits my property". so we talk about guns. i'm kinda rooting for mcmansionguy since he has guns and he mows his lawn.

so who are your neighbors?