Emily Best of luck to you in Chicago. I have 3 words for you "Shaw's Crab House". I'ts downtown and it is the bomb. Seafood from all over the world fresh everyday. I have been there tons of times. Don't forget to spin Hejira on your way.
Paz on 1/27/02 7:16 AM, Emily Gray Tedrowe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi all. i've been quiet recently; still enjoying all > of your writing on this great list. > > some news from this corner of brooklyn: courtney and i > are moving to chicago on february 1 (oak park, actually, > a little neighborhood just west of chicago). he's got > a new job there, and will show me all sorts of fun things > in the windy city, his hometown. > > and i will...um, adjust to this great sea change in my > life...finish my dissertation, write more fiction (from > a prairie perspective?), listen to lots of joni. > > on a new york note: i'm very conflicted about leaving. > patrick, david, debra, tanya and the rest of the NYC gang: > thank you for all sorts of fun joni outings here, for > a wonderful john kelly night, but most of all: for support > and solace during the months since 9/11. i'm both > relieved and miserable at the idea of leaving new york > while we are still reeling, still rebuilding, still > mourning and healing. i'm interested to see what it will > be like to contemplate 9/11 from outside new york, and > yet i know it will be hard to be in another place. the > comfort i find in my melancholy here is that there is no > need to explain anything to other new yorkers. there is > a sense of going through/having gone through something > life altering together. > > don't mean to sound so sad -- many parts of this big > change are exciting and challenging to me. and i will > make sure to carry all my born-and-bred-in-brooklyn > spirit over to the windy city, and tell them just what > i think of the bulls, while wearing my knicks hat! > (proudly, after last night's double-OT win!) > > more later from chi-town, > emily
