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The park across the street may function as one or many of a myriad of possibilities: a playground, a drug haven, an attempted rejection of hyper-urbanization, a place to take loud human beings of all ages. Whatever the function may be –– and it has fulfilled many of these possibilities in the two days since I've arrived –– this park does give me a gorgeous, un-edifice-obstructed view.

I SEE TREES!!

I can also see the Columbia Medical Center. If I climb one of these trees and fall, help is just around the corner.

I love the city. I had an interview today that went very well, pending the follow-up stipend discussion that will hopefully ensue on Thursday or Friday of this week.

Please, please, please, please, please, come visit me! If I've asked you to visit, I truly mean it. I wouldn't have invited you to trek 3,o00 miles just to be amiable.

Winter is just around the corner –– ice skating at the Rockefeller Center is a requisite for me this year.