As you know, I spent Thanksgiving in Chapel Hill. Most of the time I was hanging out with three of my friends - Clint, Dana, and one of Dana's good friends, N'Gai. Got much studying done, and listened to a lot of John Coltrane. Have you ever heard his version of "My Favorite Things"? To say it is very beautiful would be an understatement.
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I'm really enjoying living off campus with my friends. Now that we're all settled into our house, our utility costs have stabilized at about $40 per person, per month. We all pay for things like lightbulbs, paper towels, and toilet paper communally. We also went in on a newspaper subscription and cable TV.
- letter to Dad
(Note from 2009 - to say I "got much studying done" that Thanksgiving break was the biggest overstatement ever. We had been invited down to C-line's place in Charlotte for the meal, but were having far too good of a time by ourselves at the Pink House to motivate.
Eventually, everyone got tired of paying for communal household supplies and I started vic'ing whatever paper products we needed from UNC. It was some scratchy-ass toilet paper, but the price was right. I seem to remember a hacker hooking us up with free cable at some point, but maybe that's just wishful thinking, because I also remember lots of trips to the Time Warner cable office up at Timberlyne to pay our late bills.)
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