The Search is over
My new roommate has signed on the dotted line. It's official. Hooray! Thanks to all of you who offered to help. (Even those I don't know.)

Even my drycleaner was trying to help me find a roommate. A week or so ago when I dropped off a pair of pants, he asked what I was doing over the weekend. I said I was showing the apartment. He got all sad because he thought I was moving. I told him it was OK; I'm just looking for a roommate. Then today, he started knocking on the window as I walked by and waving for me to come in. Um, I remembered to pick up my pants; I was wearing them. He wanted to ask if I was still looking for a roommate because a girl who had been in this weekend was looking for a place. Drycleaners: helping bring the neighborhood together.

A date with Shakespeare
Saturday I waited in line for tickets to see Shakespeare in the Park. Andrea and I were planning to get there at 6 am, so I just didn't go to sleep the night before. Not such a swell idea. It made the seven hour wait that much harder. There was plenty of entertainment in line, though. The people sleeping on airbeds. The group that brought a collapsable picnic table. The women who brought her dog, which got in a fight with every passing dog. The flute playing guy who has played every time I've waited for tickets since the summer of 2001. He used to wear roller blades; I liked him better then. But the show was great. Better than the past two years. I never knew Jimmy Smits could be so funny. Then I went home and slept a lot.

The song that has been stuck in my head for the past couple of days
"Take your parachute and jump, you can't stay here forever
When everyone else is gone, being all alone won't seem thatclever
Take your parachute and go, there's gonna have to be somedanger
Take your parachute and jump, you're gonna have to take flight

If the wind don't catch you, I will, I will
If the wind's not there, I'm here

Don't look out before you, you know it's a long way down
I'll make it safer for you, your parachute won't let you down
Take your parachute and go, and maybe come back tomorrow
Take your parachute, I am, stop you ever getting sorrow

Cause the winds might change, and the winds might blow over you
And the winds might cut you in two, unless perhaps you get araincoat

Take your parachute and go, and wave to me as you are falling
Take your parachute and jump, you'll hear a sound, it's just mecalling
It's a beautiful day for jumping, and nothing's here to keep youback
I'll make it safer for you, your parachute is on your back

Cause the winds might change, and the winds might change

Take a parachute, I am

And jump (the wind should come and catch you)
And jump (before you hit the ground)
And jump (the wind should come and catch you)
And jump (before you hit the ground)
Jump
Take your parachute"
-"Parachute" Something Happens