wow….talk about cheap renting out here! the ad also said utlities came out to $10-20/month. Good grief! In the bay area, I remember paying more for a one bedroom apartment in Richmond 🙁 I’m still happy with my dorm in Evanston, though. I don’t have to pay for cable, Internet access, and utlities. Plus, Northwestern automatically takes it out of my loans. So, I don’t have to write out checks for this place :0
I also have a funny joke for you. So, we had a Jesuit priest from Loyola University at Sheil, last Sunday. He said his father, a good Irish Catholic, inisted that Joesph must have been at the wedding in Canaan. He must have been proud to see his son perform the whole water into wine miracle. Then, the next morning, he woke up with a wee headache. He asked Mary to bring him a class of water and said, “For God’s sake, don’t let the kid touch it!”
Mark went down to LA this weekend. Cali people get the Martin Luther King, Jr, holiday off. (and in Virginia….hell….the decided to celebrate Dr. King’s b-day along with the heroes of the Confederacy….under the excuse that all these men were “defenders of causes”)….as for Northwestern University – the holiday was OBSERVED from 11 AM to 4 PM. NU thought that counted as a day off…..even though I still had to get up at the break of dawn to catch the train to the downtown Chicago campus for Ethics and Law.
Still, I’m happy Mark went down to LA. He went down to be closer to me, to hang with my family and our mutual friends. Plus, my family kept asking him questions about me (he’s the last person I talk to before I go to sleep, every night). So, it’s like we met in LA this weekend. That felt good. Jennie showed him a picture of me when I was little (grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr). It was one of those Magic Mountain viewfinders. She said that in this picture, this was when I knew I was going to Harvard. Daffy little Kristina, wearing a green Harvard sweatership….thinking her parents can afford to send her to a private ivy league university, after all the money they poured into my skating.
By the way, Evanston’s not exactly the safest place in the world….The Chicago Tribune reported two people were jumped on Sunday. What the hell…..I thought it was tooo cold for that sort of thing!
I also had a dream last night….I was working on a story about rape that happened in Evanston. I kept interviewing witnesses and police who named other victims who were attacked by that asshole. But each name kept leading to another name…..I had so many questions. It was like running around and chasing my own tail. With every new interview, my stomach clenched. I wanted to throw up.
Not a bad price at all.