On this day when some feel it is necessary to celebrate something people are supposed to do, I am thinking of going to grad school and finish this time. Finally all of my parental units have died and I have money to pay for grad school. That sounds more bitter than I intended it to sound.
I have lived where the teams are either too expensive (U of I for people not associated with the university is/was outrageously expensive) or there has been no team for too long. I want to do laps with others who want to do laps. I don't want to do laps where people don't complain about me swimming in there way as the piddle (my father's favorite word) down the lane doing something that looks like a *** stroke.
Here are the choices. I want to hear opinions -both good and bad.
Indianapolis (have friends)
Cleveland (as a kid a big Indians fan)
Phoenix (Did everyone see that they increased both their football & baseball budget? How does Ms. Love justify that?)
Northridge, CA (quaint)
San Francisco, Ca (looks like it might be more fun than it really is)
Portland, OR (Seattle-want-to-be)
Kansas City, MO ()
Denver, CO (Good friend lives there)
(The statements are from some one else not me)
The furthest west I've ever been is Iowa City, Topeka, San Antonio. I've lived in a small towns (Galesburg, IL the center of the universe and home of the Ferris Wheel), university/intellectual towns (Champaign/Urbana & Topeka, when Menninger was still there) and center cities with lots of suburbs. (DC, St. Louis, Houston). I've never lived in a suburb.
I think of the list only Northridge, CA is a suburb. I think Kansas City, MO is considered central city. To do this I am also thinking of buying a car. I'm 50 & never had one. I've been to Indy, Cleveland (it really has become a beautiful city), and Kansas City, MO (not the center of the universe as LDSers think).
Any response will be most welcomed.
Thanks a bill,
Craig
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U Delaware. It has a wonderful international section to its nonprofit management course. Not may responses about it. also what abbout Rutgers? this is new to me and I have't really explored it.
I grew up fairly close to Rutgers in NJ. It's a good school, but it's in New Jersey - fuhgeddaboutit unless you can handle the NJ mindset. (Example: You say "Excuse me, but is the 'Resolving Interpersonal Conflicts' course full this semester?" The response, in the local dialect is: "Yeah, you got a problem with that?" I actually LOVE going back to NJ because I get tired of the whole Pennsylvania repressed, passive-aggressive attitude. I also slip back in to my NJ accent. My wife, originally from western PA, looks on it as akin to being dropped off in Iraq without a weapon.) Of course, the good swimming news about Rutgers is that you have easy access to the Jersey shore and NYC and Connecticut open water races.
Most people I've known who went to U Delaware liked it and then got the h@ll out of Delaware once they graduated. It has reasonable access to open water races in NJ shore and Maryland.
I still say "PENN STATE."
-LBJ
U Delaware. It has a wonderful international section to its nonprofit management course. Not may responses about it. also what abbout Rutgers? this is new to me and I have't really explored it.
I grew up fairly close to Rutgers in NJ. It's a good school, but it's in New Jersey - fuhgeddaboutit unless you can handle the NJ mindset. (Example: You say "Excuse me, but is the 'Resolving Interpersonal Conflicts' course full this semester?" The response, in the local dialect is: "Yeah, you got a problem with that?" I actually LOVE going back to NJ because I get tired of the whole Pennsylvania repressed, passive-aggressive attitude. I also slip back in to my NJ accent. My wife, originally from western PA, looks on it as akin to being dropped off in Iraq without a weapon.) Of course, the good swimming news about Rutgers is that you have easy access to the Jersey shore and NYC and Connecticut open water races.
Most people I've known who went to U Delaware liked it and then got the h@ll out of Delaware once they graduated. It has reasonable access to open water races in NJ shore and Maryland.
I still say "PENN STATE."
-LBJ
