A few interesting things have happened recently. I signed a lease on a new apartment, and I will be moving in at the end of this month. It's on the 11th floor of an apartment building in the midst of the city. I've wanted to live in a real city (I don't think most of Los Angeles counts, the neighborhoods are too distinct. Los Angeles is 95% sprawl). The place I'm in is more like living near Central Park in NYC. There's a good bakery down the street. The name of the apartment is the Dorchester - most of the apartments in the area have names like that, the names of hotels in London. The area is funny - you see women my age wearing fur coats. Drive 10 miles south and you see men my age wearing fur coats. The two groups don't have much in common other than the fur. There are also a lot of old women that like to rove around the park near my apartment, paired together, walking arm in arm. <p>
I got a watch a couple of days ago. It's the first watch I've had since a digital one that I lost somewhere, maybe in Washington DC, back in 8th grade. It's convenient in a way I didn't expect to know what time it is when I'm not near a computer.<P>
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