i think this is the start of a beautiful friendship.

86.3 the groove recently celebrated its one year anniversary. CONGRATS TO US. an entire year living together, and no one has died. or gone to jail. that's truly remarkable. We also recently (or about a month ago) started renovating our apartment to make it look like grown ups live here. or at least a house full of good actors who from time to time like to play make believe. we still have a little work to do, but what we've done so far is looking prettttty good. i really do LOVE my roommates and feel so happy and honored to be a part of this somewhat dysfunctional, but ultimately loving and supportive family we've created here in nyc.

Here's some pictures courtesy of Roger.

It also was nice to spend all weekend couped up in the apartment together with nothing but good company, good conversation and some paint fumes. We had a lot of good conversations about Sylvia Plath, were jared reminded me that i couldn't say things like "i just can't imagine killing myself while my children were in the house" because i'm not a mother yet. i may or may not still feel like that when the time comes. we read parts of the Kinsey report after a discussion of the Feminine Mystique where i finally found motivation to go to grad school. "Women with higher education are more likely to orgasm than women who get married young." These bachelor's degree O's just aren't cutting it for me. I also remembered how funny the name "Patches O'Houlihan" was. I said "you know whats funny? the name Patches O'Houlihan." and laughed to myself for 25 minutes.

matt also had one of the wittiest quickest comebacks i've ever heard.

Casey: Aren't you guys glad i'm not a total girlie girl, and i'm actually handy around the house?
Matt: I'll be a lot happier when i start receiving those handies.



another important discovery made while working on these renovations. the True Value 2 blocks from our house in the most happenin' place in brooklyn. every time we went to the hardware store we'd end up staying for at least an extra half an hour laughing about things such as 11" ballcocks. and the music there is better than any club i've been to in the city. i'm not even joking. now if only we could get them to fix the soda machine so we could be drinking orange soda while we walk around, and stay open til 4am, i think we may just have ourselves a new hangout.