tipping the scales & persuaded by a well-known bakery
it seems that the scales tip in favor of the w. coast these days. so many people i know are moving west. my college friend alison is finishing law school and eventually wants to move to california to join her boyfriend. my sister did that move in 1997 after med school. my former next door neighbor lorena (who had the same last name as me incidentally!) moved to seattle after getting her master's degree in nursing. my current next door neighbor amy, who graduated from stanford in '98, hopes to move back there this summer after getting her ph.d. a guy i know from grad. school moved to portland, oregon. he works at cascade behavioral health systems and his wife is an attorney. another girl from my program is moving to l.a. this summer to be with her boyfriend.
i've thought about it, too, though i have no immediate plans. maybe one day. now it looks like amishboy is also contemplating a move either to seattle, or charleston, sc. i vote in favor of seattle.
to be fair, i've only bypassed charleston driving home from florida, but never been in the city. i've heard it's a beautiful port on the atlantic, with classy southern charm and beautiful old architecture. plus there's the spoleto festival. jenn, a friend from grad school, always said she loved charleston and used to drive all the way down there every weekend to visit her boyfriend at the citadel (but it didn't last). i'd like to visit charleston at some point.
it looks like a whole crew of d-landers have been trying to tip amishboy's scales in favor of seattle. it started when i left him a note mentioning this lovely bakery . apparently from reading several other notes left for him after mine, this bakery must be quite well-known among the locals. and, from what he wrote here , it looks like maybe he's slowly being persuaded by the thought of those sinfully decadent baked goods he can get if he moves out to the emerald city. ;)
LOL! if that doesn't tip the scales, i don't know what will. i never thought i'd find myself recommending this cake shop to someone over d-land. but there it is. i don't know how famous the shop really is for city residents. you see, i only know about it b/c i drove by it often on the way through wallingford and down towards the udistrict... not b/c i patronized the shop. no lie!
check in later. more as it happens...
