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[greybird]

i heard back about interviews! stanford and berkeley want me.  they will wine me and dine me for nine days total during the process. i have the grand teetering scheme of a california adventure hatching. i want to travel from san diego to san francisco.  (how far can that be? its one state!) the mode of transport is to be determined. and i'll climb

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[gesellschaft]

I live 5 hours north of san franciso in Arcata. Berkeley is a nice place to live if you can afford it. I've been told that many of the full professors there have to commute from other places in the bay area.

[greybird]

this is true of princeton and brown, too. most professors can't afford expensive college towns. i'm thinking maybe i'll live in a co-op... housing and food are much much cheaper that way. and the people come a shade more interesting.

[chirplet]

co-ops are the way to go. and if you look early, roomshares in berkeley aren't bad either.

[chirplet]

roomshares meaning big houses that rent by room, shared bathrooms/kitchens

[greybird]

yes, i'll make sure to look into those, too.
in other notes, i was wondering if you have some advice on moving my "blog" out of livejournal. the adds and cumbersome user interface are getting to me. and i refuse to pay for this stuff. i would want to carry all the old baggage over...

[chirplet]

yes, livejournal and its appeal has been deteriorating for some time. regarding backups, i googled and found this: http://brown-betty.livejournal.com/284083.html

i have a frivolous media blog at tumblr. it's very different from livejournal but could potentially function in the same way. you could easily upload your archived entries onto webspace somewhere, but i don't know anything about carrying over entries from lj to another service. personally, i've resigned to abandoning my baggage here.