As though to tease me, the weather got briefly better today, only to turn cold again. But that is all right, because I still got a bike ride, a chat with a friend in a graveyard, and a dinner with said friend in cute local brewery inn, so that was a good day ( Read more... )

I never have to give specific directions to anyone who comes to visit me anymore, you see. I just tell them that I live in the watermelon house. It's all green on the outside, and inside it's bright bright pink. It's not so pink by the time you get upstairs into the living room I and the roommates occupy, and my own room is blissfully plain ( Read more... )

One particularly pleasant (for me) recent development has been thegreatmissjj's fiance moving to the Rutgers area, so that I now get to see JJ (she who is Neil Gaiman's magical niece) in my very own neighborhood as well as NY ( Read more... )

C. H. Martin's and George Street Co-op ( Read more... )

I think I finally get what everybody means when they talk about New Jersey drivers ( Read more... )

I keep wanting to post about Rutgers, but the anti-anxiety medication I'm taking makes me too tired. Anyway. For all the horrors of New Jersey, the campus I'm on is surprisingly pretty, with rather more green space than I'm used to. And I love the graduate studies office building: it's this old, dark, lovely antique house-looking thing, with an ( Read more... )