Living in Maine now.
If you want my top 10 list for the year look at the last comment and you have a very long posting.
So I finally found a place in Westbrook, Maine which is where my wife wanted to be all along (less then a mile from the in-laws) ... I had my heart set on a place on the beach but that mysteriously fell through ....
The new place is very nice although FAR too open .. With new windows and no blinds .. This is a situation that must be remedied ... It is very central though and right on the river which is nice....
Its amazing also how much you can spend on a new place getting things ... Its also really, really unbelivable how much Time Warner wants to charge for cable. (Debating on getting a Dish, so any feedback on Dish Network or DirectTV would be awesome) ....
Actually having a land-line phone for the first time in a while ... And for the first time ever me and my wifey Ninanna have a place without roommates.
College Football is over tonight for the year and it looks like USC is the National Champion with an outrageous 38-10 halftime lead.
Curious in any moving stories people have had and in any great films they have rented/seen recently ....
I need to keep up on the job search.
Having wifey in NYC while I am here is also really, really hard.
Need to look into teacher ed programs in Maine as would really like to settle into a full-time teaching position ... I am extraordinarily sick of temping and want to move on.
I hope everyone had an awesome new year and greetings to all you SGNY types, who I have met .. I hope to make it to at least one more shindig.
ecq
If you want my top 10 list for the year look at the last comment and you have a very long posting.
So I finally found a place in Westbrook, Maine which is where my wife wanted to be all along (less then a mile from the in-laws) ... I had my heart set on a place on the beach but that mysteriously fell through ....
The new place is very nice although FAR too open .. With new windows and no blinds .. This is a situation that must be remedied ... It is very central though and right on the river which is nice....
Its amazing also how much you can spend on a new place getting things ... Its also really, really unbelivable how much Time Warner wants to charge for cable. (Debating on getting a Dish, so any feedback on Dish Network or DirectTV would be awesome) ....
Actually having a land-line phone for the first time in a while ... And for the first time ever me and my wifey Ninanna have a place without roommates.
College Football is over tonight for the year and it looks like USC is the National Champion with an outrageous 38-10 halftime lead.
Curious in any moving stories people have had and in any great films they have rented/seen recently ....
I need to keep up on the job search.
Having wifey in NYC while I am here is also really, really hard.
Need to look into teacher ed programs in Maine as would really like to settle into a full-time teaching position ... I am extraordinarily sick of temping and want to move on.
I hope everyone had an awesome new year and greetings to all you SGNY types, who I have met .. I hope to make it to at least one more shindig.
ecq
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[Edited on Jan 08, 2005 2:53PM]
A place where restaurants serve breakfast, which people eat before walking out into the streets flanked by six-foot snowbanks.
A place where the sun goes down and there's so much room between everything that bouncing streetlight illuminates the outdoor sky.
A place where the financial district was built to form the windiest point in the western hemisphere.
A place which holds the title of 'world capital of slurpees', despite the city itself being frozen half the year.
A place where faces are distorted by the cold--a cold which transcends the distinction between celcius and fahrenheit (-40˚ ).
A place where university students' spring break was moved to the end of February; specifically, the week which had previously hosted the most sudent suicides out of the year.
A place where a someone may come along to help push your car out of the snow without ever saying a word.
A place where all of this is mutually forgotten and taboo for the summer months.
Even if Guy Maddin was attempting to mythologize his home town, it is a bizarre enough place to be called the world capital of sorrow.
[Edited on Jan 09, 2005 11:45PM]