The PJ³ Times

Moving again

We’re homeowners!

We closed on buying a house on June 21, so as of July 10, 1999 we will have a new snail-mail address. Our e-mail addresses, our homepage URL, and our phone number remain the same.

The new house is a two story plus attic and basement house built about 1920. It has three bedrooms (one huge, two a little on the small side) a weirdly shaped bathroom and kitchen (but the kitchen is really well done) a dining room, and a huge living room. Wall-to-wall carpeting over hardwood. The lot is 50 x 125, and most of the external space is in the big backyard which is mostly fenced. Since the sellers let us keep the swing set, JJ will still have a play area close by. The lot has a raised garden bed behind the garage in the backyard, so Julie and Pete will have a “play area” nearby too. The house also has a front porch big enough to sit out on and watch the world go by.

The garage roof needs to be redone in a few years, and the house needs a few cosmetic touchups, but we (and our inspector) generally think it is in great shape. Its roof is from 1991, and the hot water heater is less than 2 years old. We had the second-floor electricity all updated before moving in, and the basement walls needed some cosmetic work. It is in a great neighborhood by all accounts, though the elementary school is not the best in the world. Two professors at Elmira College live on the same block just around the corner. It is about twice as far from campus as where we are now, but it will still be an easy bike ride (or a long walk) for Julie to get to work.

The negotiations went pretty smoothly as these things go. They were asking 63,400, we offered 58,500, and they countered with 61,000 which we accepted. They let us take everything we asked for except the washer/dryer and the picnic table (and some curtains we can’t remember anything about anyway...)

Work

Julie loves her job

Julie is finding her job to be very interesting. She is the Gannett-Tripp Library’s webmaster, among other things, and is quite proud of how helpful the page designs turned out. The main library page is at <http://www.elmira.edu/library/> but if you want to see a great web searching page, go to <http://www.elmira.edu/library/srchweb.html>! If it weren’t for the really bad college politics, this might well be the perfect library job. Unfortunately, governance issues are so strained that Elmira College faces sanction by its accrediting agency. Oy veh!

In the fall Julie gets to teach a PE class in folkdancing (see Dance: international for details).

Pete & JJ at home

Pete and JJ are home together 3 days a week. The other 2 JJ is in daycare while Pete gets stuff done around the house, reads, and so on. On the days that JJ is home, she and Pete haunt the public library and nearby park, known as “my read this” (which also means ‘book’) and “my whee” respectively.

JJ had been having the usual 2 year old’s bouts with fluid in the ears, and we were about to have her get tubes to help with drainage. Before doing so we tried taking her off dairy products for a week and a half, and the fluid cleared right up! Now that the earache season is over, she’s back on milk with clear ears.

Dance

Heartwood Morris

Ithaca has a fledgling morris team, Heartwood Morris. For a while Heartwood was called INK Morris-Ithaca Nameless Kitless-and proposed kit was white vests with Rorsach inkblots on the back. We then realized that Heartwood would be usable and would serve as a link in name back to the old Ithaca team, Hearts of Oak. Kit is white trousers and the green vests we all have from the various teams we’ve been on before. That may change as we get new members with their own opinions, something which, fortunately, is happening now. If anyone knows any potential Morris dancers in this part of the world, have them call us!

International

Julie has been approved to teach a one-credit course on folk dancing in fall 1999. It will be fun, good exercise, and will bring in some extra money. It also may (hopefully) lead to a folk dance group or club on the Elmira College campus! In preparation for this and just because we wanna, we’ve been going to international dancing at Cornell. The Cornell International Folk Dancers are a small but friendly and stable group. We generally take JJ, who gets bored, unfortunately; however, she is getting used to all the travel to Ithaca.

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