cool and rainy and boring
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bunrabIt's been in the high 70's for a couple of days; today it dropped to 50 and rainy, so at least instead of June it feels like April. But this is January, damn it!!
Students are beginning to settle in, answer questions, do their homework - the panic of the first week of class is over.
We continue to research exactly where in the Baltimore area we'd like to live. Right now, Howard and Carroll counties look the best in terms of affordability; from there, Howard county looks better in terms of being eclectic and diverse. Carroll county has several towns that look way lily-white, which makes me doubt the availability of assorted ethnic food at midnight. I want a place where Chinese or Vietnamese or whatever is available! Columbia looks good - houses look affordable; short drive to Montgomery Village for their community band, somewhat longer to Bel-Air for their community band. Carroll county would be a shorter drive to Bel-Air; it would make Montg. Village and Bel Air about equidistant. They rehearse on different nights, and we'd love to be in both.
Meanwhile, I am packing more books... three more boxes of books and a box of Christmas stuff over to the storage unit today. So there's about 18 boxes of stuff, a couple of them the very large plastic boxes - and yet, it looks like NOTHING is gone yet. How can we have gotten that many cubic feet out of the house and not made any visible dent whatsoever?
Meanwhile tomorrow looks to be busy - 2 classes, a small training session, a faculty meeting, and some guinea pig cages desperately need cleaning. Yay!
Students are beginning to settle in, answer questions, do their homework - the panic of the first week of class is over.
We continue to research exactly where in the Baltimore area we'd like to live. Right now, Howard and Carroll counties look the best in terms of affordability; from there, Howard county looks better in terms of being eclectic and diverse. Carroll county has several towns that look way lily-white, which makes me doubt the availability of assorted ethnic food at midnight. I want a place where Chinese or Vietnamese or whatever is available! Columbia looks good - houses look affordable; short drive to Montgomery Village for their community band, somewhat longer to Bel-Air for their community band. Carroll county would be a shorter drive to Bel-Air; it would make Montg. Village and Bel Air about equidistant. They rehearse on different nights, and we'd love to be in both.
Meanwhile, I am packing more books... three more boxes of books and a box of Christmas stuff over to the storage unit today. So there's about 18 boxes of stuff, a couple of them the very large plastic boxes - and yet, it looks like NOTHING is gone yet. How can we have gotten that many cubic feet out of the house and not made any visible dent whatsoever?
Meanwhile tomorrow looks to be busy - 2 classes, a small training session, a faculty meeting, and some guinea pig cages desperately need cleaning. Yay!
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Date: 2005-01-28 02:37 pm (UTC)I also hate moving. Glad it's you and not me. I'm with you on the ethnic cuisine, though. I hate living in places where Taco Bell is the height of ethnic. Here in Huntsville, due to the large influx of people from *somewhere else besides Alabama*, we have a pretty good selection of ethnic restaurants. It's one of the best things about this city - LOTS of people who are from, not only other STATES, but from other COUNTRIES. And all well-educated and brainy. Gotta love it.
Good luck with the packing!
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Date: 2005-01-28 05:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-28 08:39 pm (UTC)