I'm in love with Massachusetts when it's cold outside

I am spending my first night in my new apartment.

It is very much an apartment in progress. There are still-packed boxes everywhere. My books are in the library, stacked against the wall with the closet: there are over fifty boxes of them and they weigh just half a ton, according to the springs of the truck my brother brought them over in yesterday. I had to open three different boxes in the kitchen in order to assemble the pot I warmed tonight's chowder in, the oversized mug and the spoon I ate it with, the water glass on my windowsill and the mug from which I am currently drinking tea. (It has Greek fir honey in it from Follow the Honey, because nineweaving when she gave me the small spinet desk at which I am now writing said no one should ever give a cradle empty, or a desk.) I am sleeping on an air mattress borrowed from gaudior and rushthatspeaks until Friday when the futon mattress I have ordered comes in. I have to be awake and dressed earlier tomorrow than feels medically advisable in order to let in adrian_turtle's movers at ten in the morning, because of logistics. There is no art on my walls, I have no bookcases, I'm going to need to clean everything, and the closet built belatedly across the corner of my already small room is one of the most unhelpful architectural features known to man. My clothes are all in garbage bags.

It is very good to be here.

These are all the songs my computer seems to know about living in Boston. Admittedly I'm in Somerville, but I haven't got any songs for that specifically besides the ENSMB. Anyone know any? Want to write them?

Willie Alexander, "Mass. Ave."

You might see an old friend or run from a ghost
On Mass. Ave.

Jonathan Richman, "Roadrunner (Thrice)"

I can see the whole Boston harbor from where I am
Out on the rocks by Cohasset, in the night

Human Sexual Response, "Marone Offering"

I met you on a Rat date, Rat date by the river
The bonfires on the Fenway stretched away forever

Consonant, "That Boston Life"

They slept sweet on a dirty floor
Just once in that tiny flat
That first night of sirens

The Dresden Dolls, "Boston"

New York will still be there in the morning
Come back to bed, my darling

Samantha Crain & The Midnight Shivers, "Devils in Boston"

Mama always said Devil'll meet you at the railroad tracks
I ain't seen nothing but the subway here in Boston

Amanda Palmer, "Massachusetts Avenue"

Storrow Drive is pretty in the springtime
Storrow Drive is pretty in the fall
You don't have to go home in a straight line
You don't have to go back home at all

Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band, "Davis Square Double-Time"