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Today my sisters (and Katie's boyfriend) moved to Santa Barbara.

Okay, to be accurate, they left from our house 20 minutes ago, my dad driving the moving truck with Megan, and Katie & Eddy following along behind in Eddy's car. Katie's going to grad school at UCSB - I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but she is awesome enough that they offered her a free ride for five years. Like, not just "sent her an acceptance letter" but "called her on the phone because they really wanted her to attend their school." So she is off to California to study medieval literature and Eddy and Megan (since the three of them are a bit like a little family unit) are off with her.

Which is a little sad but mostly a lot awesome because, even though I complain about them sometimes, they are pretty cool people who are going to do pretty cool things. I'm really proud of them.

Since I can't get back to sleep, I am writing them letters. Everyone likes getting mail, especially when they move to a new place.

Date: 2011-09-07 02:28 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] parhelion
Here's hoping they enjoy the stay. Santa Barbara and environs were oddly interesting: expensive, caught in a squeeze between Hollywood entertainment-lawyer riches and buckets-of-everything California coastal culture, and unable to decide if they wanted to be the new San Francisco or the new Orange County. But it was also the most physically beautiful place I've ever lived and the university -- at least in my day -- had some fantastic stuff happening on the academic side. Also, beaches, which made up for a lot including some truly awful campus architecture.

I wonder if there are still wild peacocks in the swamps along the bike paths to Goleta?

All the best to them and good luck finding a not-too-dinky place to stay!

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