Daniel Ferrante

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I’ve found a place to live. It’s in Cupertino, near Valco Fashion Park - and when did Valco start going through such a transformation? It used to be on the verge of dying, now there’s a ton of construction going on! Wow.

I’ve also begun biking to work. This past Sunday I biked the 17 miles round trip to my office. It took me just a few minutes shy of 2 hours, including stops/breaks, making changes to my directions and notes about where to go. And I only had one near hit!

My new place is awesome. The roomies are great, the house is HUGE, my room is 15′x11′ plus it’s own bathroom, shower and vanity area. I raided Ikea and I am currently in “Assemble Mode” as I put all my furniture together. I feel like I have purcased several very complex Lego sets. Once I get the furntiure ready and the room cleaned (the walls are dirty and there are cobwebs everywhere), I’ll purchase some curtains - cause what I have is pretty ghetto. The last owner apparently used butterfly clips to keep them together.

After the curtains - an aquarium. It feels nice to be settled in.

I’ll be right here…

I’ve been back for just over a month now. It’s odd. I try to remember living in France, and the memories are all vaporous. I reread my blog entries (which need yet another revision) and the things I wrote about seem intangible and unreal - like it was one long dream.

I’ll be blogging over the next few months about my time in France, reflecting on it sorting it out. Look for it in future updates.

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Mr. Nau, myself and a few other folks have started a site called 50 Words where we rate movies in exactly 50 words (no more, no less). Give it a look, check it out, leave us some feed back.

And for those of you who are curious - I’ll be reviewing my favourite movie of all time in the next few weeks.

Take care all, and try biking to work at least one day this week!