I can't stand it. I'm watching the local real estate channel, and I guess this explains why many people choose to live here (or the equivalent all across the country). How about 150 acres, an old farmhouse (restorable or scrapable), timber rights, no natural gas rights but 100% free natural gas forever, adjacent to a pristine 2300 acre lake - for $115,000! Unbelievable. For $115K in San Diego you can get a 900 square foot condo in a bad part of town.
Spent time with Em last night refining the college list. Here they are, as well as I can remember. The list is evolving, as are the criteria, but it's looking good.
The A List
Berkeley
Stanford
Amherst
Dartmouth
Cornell
The B List
William and Mary
Rhodes
Brown
Butler
The C List
U of Kentucky
Whittaker
UCSD
I'm thankful she's willing to consider schools based on their merit, not simply how close they are to home. That's a common mistake of bright kids from small towns - settling on a school simply because it's safe, convenient, close.
Twenty degrees. Snow on the ground. Dark by 430pm. How does so much of the world deal with this for months on end? I think I've lost my weather rhythms by living in Socal so long. Thankfully, better weather is only a plane ride away.
