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Snow in the Slope

7th Ave. near 10th

Fine Dining in Park Slope

I ate a deep fried Twinkie tonight. It was great! Chris had a fried Mars bar. And I had several margaritas. At Lobo. And I bought a hat. And a Darth Vader bank. I need sleep now. Wait, Terminator I is on ION. Ok, I'M UP.

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Getting to know the neighborhood

Rainy fall afternoon at Prospect Park

We're doing fine. A few weeks have gone by and we have more or less successfully tackled a thousand more mundane issues connected to moving to a new place. We've calmed down. We are both job hunting. And what a time to be job hunting, but Chris has an interview in Manhattan next week. He's going to get it.

We found Grand Army Plaza and the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. While using the wi-fi there to job hunt, a very angelic, drooling little Park Slope cherub toddled over to me and beamed me squarely in the head with a book. I hate not having an internet connection at home yet, that's been a big issue. At least it was a paperback. I told her I was going to have her locked up. No, I didn't. Toddlers will do those things, it is their way. I'm told that as a tot I cracked my own sleeping mother in the face with some toy to get attention. That was back in the 70s, when toys were made out galvanized steel, lead paint, and asbestos. Well, maybe not, but they were not soft.

There really are a lot of kids here. It's not a complaint, I'm just agreeing with what has been written--yes, there are a lot of kids in strollers. I'm looking at one now in one of those double-wide ones, and I can say that I went to grad school with a girl not too much larger than that kid. I need someone to push me around like that. I'm exhausted.

Ferrari show on 7th Avenue, September 20, 2008

We've taken time out to explore Prospect Park and the zoo, some of the farmers' markets and flea markets, eaten a lot of pizza. There is so much going on. It's great. I don't miss anything about Chicago.

Today we learned that we live just down the street from Leonard Bernstein. And the Wizard of Oz (aka Frank Morgan, the actor who played that role in the movie), Jean-Michel Basquiat, Louis Comfort Tiffany, and even Walter Hunt, inventor of the safety pin. We learned all this by walking through the famous Green-Wood Cemetery, which is an amazingly beautiful place.

Welcome to Park Slope, Idiots

One day you are living in relative comfort and security in the Midwest. But you are not happy. Because you and your musician husband are arty and crafty and possibly harbor delusions of grandeur, you both decide to move to New York City. Actually, it's been your dream since childhood to live there.

So you pick Brooklyn because like most people you can't afford Manhattan. Within Brooklyn you choose Park Slope, because although the apartment is a heinous dump, you can afford it.