Dear So and So

[Owlie]

It is indeed WSU! I'm guessing some of the surrounding stuff moved onto the base, or is on the other side of it. There's some stuff, and there's stuff in the suburbs that are closer to Dayton itself, but it looks like it's a really car-centric campus. And Young's Dairy isn't that far away. I'll have a car there, so it's not too bad. (My parents are pretty convinced that if I bike on some of those roads, I'll get squished.) Guess I'll have to get used to driving again...and maybe pick up a commuter bike with a rack to keep gas costs down a bit.

I did discover that Dayton has a couple rail trails. They're not all connected, but the park that connects to the big one is about five miles from campus. (And I can go pester my sister via that trail...it actually stops not far from where she'll be living next year. Bwahaha!)
Jess, that's funny! Small world. And Graeter's...tastes of home!

My parents think (and I think they're right) that even if I decide not to go for a PhD, my only realistic choice is to go with this program, especially because I've been unemployed for a year (not for lack of trying, mind you). We've done the math, and it looks like I have just enough savings to pay the two years' tuition, but not necessarily living expenses. My parents have said they'd be willing to help with those if it weren't for their job situation. Just frustrating that my only option seems to be something that will eat all my money and only might get me anywhere. (And where I'll be living isn't ideal. I don't want to deal with undergrads...I didn't like most of my classmates when I was an undergrad. I need a cane and a lawn so that I can tell kids to get off the lawn and wave the cane at them menacingly.)

Dear wasp outside my window--
While according to the laws of quantum physics, there is a very tiny chance that the glass will disappear and you will be able to fly with gay abandon about my room, odds are that the glass will remain intact. Flying into it repeatedly will not get you anywhere. Instead, it'll just give you a headache.