Liking it here.

Things I have done in Pittsburgh so far:

1) Made a deposit at my new bank.
2) Bought the best tickets left to see Phantom of the Opera with Chris at this gorgeous theater which is 5 miles (about a 10-15 minute drive) from my house:





I've decided I don't go out to see plays and musicals enough. Those I have seen I have enjoyed so immensely I have decided to take advantage of being in the city. I am surrounded by culture. I am ready to embrace it. I love Phantom and am extremely excited to see it performed in a very reputable theater! It was a small splurge but I am thinking well worth putting off some unncessary decorating for.

More discoveries:

I am a 10 minute walk from my local grocerey store, TWO independent theaters and my bank.

I am a 15 minute walk from the library which is very nice. I just got my library card. They have an absolutely fabulous selection, including dvds! We will never have to pay to rent a dvd again! There is also an abundance of computers and work places.

I am a 15-20 minute walk from an extremely large park filled with trails and walking paths.

I am a 20-25 (on the outside) walk from my job. I timed it today, and it's a walk down a gorgeous residential street that after about ten minutes in becomes very high class. You start seeing large well cared for homes with luxury cars in the driveways. All houses have gardens and the street is tree lined and pleasant. I decided I would walk to work every day the weather allows.

Though the houses are much more modest on our street and populated with younger people there are many nice gardens and porches with plants hanging on hooks, wind chimes and decorations of that sort. It's an extremely pleasant and nice neighborhood.

The houses on my street are small, some with grad students in the townhouses, but a few houses up they become single family homes with young families in them.

The nieghbors on both sides of me have introduced themselves upon seeing me, something no nearly as common in Worcester.

So far i am finding I have the best of both worlds, a 15 minutes drive into the heart of the city, twenty minute bus ride to campus, and the persk of living in a residential neighboorhood with lawns and trees and quiet.

i think I will have a good year here, and if possible, maybe even stay.