Stories from the Hood
I regularly read a few blogs from local publications to keep up on what's going on in Dallas, local gossip, and snarkiness (I'm looking at you, Frontburner). Today, on the Dallas Observer's Unfair Park blog, I came across a link to a New York Times article on Dallas. It's pretty interesting reading, especially as the author namechecks some of my favorite restaurants and shops as well as the area in which we currently reside (Lakewood - well, we're just outside of it) and the one where we will live once we close on the house (Oak Cliff). In fact, she likens Oak Cliff to Brooklyn. I think that may be taking things a bit far, but then again, I've never been to Brooklyn. Anyway, pretty interesting read if you care to take a look. She paints a nice picture of both neighborhoods, which kind of makes me sad to leave East Dallas/Lakewood, but at the same time makes me look forward to discovering Oak Cliff. Two other coworkers are moving there too, and one of Victor's coworkers bought a house there, so we will at least have friendly faces around.

In other news, I've finally uploaded Paris pictures onto flickr. Victor is helping me put titles and descriptions on all of them. If you're looking for house pictures, I've got a house set going too. We're going to do our inspection on Wednesday, and I'll take more pictures then. We're also going to take a bunch of notes while we're there, like where the electrical outlets and cable wires are... that sort of thing. Yep, we're all grown up now, I guess.