12.5.01 – buffalo gal, won’t you come out tonight?

well, here i am in upstate new york. the bizarre weather persists: it was 65 degrees today. the theatre i’m working for (studio arena) is currently running a play about the blizzard of ’77 that buried buffalo in like 8 feet of snow. inside, the crew shovels several feet of fake snow into plastic bags, and then steps out the stage door into a balmy december evening. its actually colder inside my apartment than it is outside.

good things about buffalo:

-my new roommate, hannah. even zeke approves of her

-the apartment, like most of downtown buffalo, is a neat old turn-of-the-century building, with high ceilings, hardwood floors and wide white decorative molding

-spot coffee, a coffee house with lots of squishy couches that invite one to sit and drink and read the paper

-economic depression = low cost of living

-living with in walking distance of 1) the theatre, 2) the gym, and 3) spot coffee

-ready accessibility of the New York Times.

-canadian radio stations

bad things about buffalo:

-i’m disappointed in the lack of snow

-parking is still an irritating hassle, although it hardly compares to that of SF, of course

-one bedroom apartment + roommate with a boyfriend = i have to sleep in the living room

-lots of scary leering men loitering around main street at night when i walk home

-a significant lack of furniture means that i’m still surrounded by boxes and boxes that can’t be unpacked

-buffalo radio stations