well, by now i've alienated anyone who might have read my blog in the past. oh well.

if you didn't know, cavin and i are back in philly. the month of october was dedicated to packing and moving. i have to say that although moving is my least favorite thing to do, this time around it wasn't that bad. it rained the day we moved, and there was major traffic which led to a 12 hour total move, but we had lots of help from john&cheri, pv&chief bro, and jano and rudy.

but yes, we are finally here and we are trying to figure out how to live comfortably and without chaos with vicky and rudy (my parents). [i should also mention that crosby and jano are also living under the same roof also.]

with that in mind, i've decided that i need to find a place where cavin and i can go to escape. right now since i am jobless (i start in a week - yikes!), being at home all the time coupled with being around my parents in the evenings has already started to prove disastrous. i exaggerate, but i can imagine it only getting worse. and of course, once i start my job, i won't be around them so much, but i still need an escape to go to when i need to get out of the house. kind of like a second home to hang out in (beck's anyone?).

so for the past week or so that we've been living in roxborough, we've been trying to find a decent place (or bar) to go to that is relatively close. it's actually harder than it might seem.

we've gone to a few places so far: manayunk diner (meh), manayunk brew pub (totally not worth going to), mcnallys in chestnut hill (the lights at the bar are piercing - how can anyone stand it?). last night we went to the general lafayette inn. i used to frequent this place when i would visit town and stay with my parents. it's close and i would run into people i knew (which may or may not be a good thing). the only bad thing about it is the smoke. i guess the no smoking ban is only in philadelphia, and since this is in lafayette hill, patrons can smoke to their hearts content. when i woke up this morning and put on my sweatshirt, it reeked of smoke and then i started to miss dc dearly. :(

my next place to try is this coffee house less than a mile from my parents house: spoons. i'll have to check it out - once i get un-lazy and walk my ass over there.

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