i am going to the ballet with esme next week!

nohrnberg warned me, back at uva, that boston "has much of what one calls civilisation," but if i choose to live there i will have to go without a reputable ballet. i found out what he meant my first week in cambridge when i tried to get the boston ballet to send me their brochure. my roommate proclaims herself a nyc ballet snob and won't go to the boston ballet. i quite understand how she feels - the same way psmith and mike wouldn't play cricket for sedleigh - and if one could go to the new york city ballet who wouldn't? but how does she manage to stand one whole semester without going to a ballet? i've not so far been overly impressed by the boston ballet (and yet the globe reviewers always write absolutely sterling reviews that make me wonder whether they've lost their marbles, or if i have.) but competent is good enough for me. oh i know, there is much of interest to do in boston, don't i know it! and yet nothing - no other of the performing arts - quite compares to the ballet and if i filled all my days up with the theatre and symphony and opera i should still feel an unhappy void.