There's a session about to start in this cafe I picked today. Yesterday's cafe was, as my host puts it, "a little boozh" - bourgeois. And it was. Though they had a rocking cheese danish and free wifi, so I managed ( Read more... )

I owe you - and me - an update. I've been writing in my head, taking note of little details and stories as they unfold around me, thinking, Ah - I should blog about this! ...And I will, soon. Really ( Read more... )

I am back in State College, and back in the Co-op. It is a bit weird, because I had so manifestly left this place, but it is also good, because it was my home for so long, and it's relieving to find that it still can be.

I'll write more later. Now, I think, I am going to wander and reacquaint myself with this town.

You know, it hasn't sunk in yet. I don't know when it will, and part of me suspects the process will be somewhat painful, but so far it hasn't sunk in that I am really gone, and away, and do not have a room to return to - at least not for a long time ( Read more... )

With only six of us remaining at the co-op last night (because PSU gives everyone a week off for Thanksgiving break, so most folks were gone by Sunday), we shared a nice, intimate meal (chili! cornbread! fried potatoes! and third helpings of all three!), and watched the snow fall outside. Because it was snowing. The ground was completely covered. I ( Read more... )