Early '70 electric organ Ode to Joy.

Brilliant.

My daughter plays Ode to Joy on the flute.

A lot.

*perk* Braindoctor? Eh wot?

I have only ever met one psychiatrist I felt was really good. He's in California. My antidepressants seem to be giving up on me, so we're going out to see Dr. Morong.

Ah! Okay. My braindoctor = neurologist (epilepsy), so I was wondering if we had that in common...

(My seizure focus is in my hippocampus, which is why I say I have a sick hippo, which is why the silly icon.)

Nope. Neurologists have never been able to help me. Luvox made life worth living for about five years, but now it's time to find something new.

I lived in Ithaca from 1981 till 1986 (grad school) and absolutely loved it there (the town, NOT the grad school). I hope you have a nice visit!

Cory

Cool; what did you like about it? I don't know how much spare time I'll have, but is there anything in particular I should see while I'm here?

The part of Ithaca that I loved that's most accessible to visitors is the scenery. There are gorges with waterfalls in them that are just beautiful. There are so many beautiful places that there isn't even widespread agreement about which is the prettiest place to take visitors. :-) My favorite place while I was there was probably Upper Robert H. Treman State Park (not to be confused with LOWER Treman). There's a path near the end of the parking lot at Upper Treman that takes you through a forest to a little waterfall. Fifty feet further along, there's another little waterfall. Keep walking, and there's yet another little waterfall. You can hike three miles down to Lower Treman and see a little waterfall every hundred feet most of the way, and the part that isn't waterfalls is hilly forest. Just beautiful.

The part of Ithaca that I think you'd appreciate the most may have changed since I lived there and isn't as readily seen by casual visitors as the scenery. But Ithaca is a very alternativey place, the sort of place where I'd tell someone that I was a bisexual vegetarian, and they'd just sort of nod. Isn't everybody? The Cornell - Ithaca relations were amusing in that it was the TOWN that was more liberal and the UNIVERSITY that was more conservative.

Of course, it's been awhile since 1988, so I don't know if it's still like that.

Have fun.

Cory

Of course, it's been awhile since 1988, so I don't know if it's still like that.

It is. I lived there for a few years as well, ending less than two years ago.

As far as I can tell, Ithaca doesn't really change much. That's a good thing.

I sure do miss having a nice cheap house with a lake view, among many other things...

Thanks! It's nice to know that the Ithaca I knew and loved is still there. Might go back there, someday.

Cory

California? Whereabouts?

A town called Lancaster, which I gather is about two hours' drive from LA.

This is posted from one of the computer labs at Cornell. The university in my home town growing up had an arboretum, but this may be my first time on the campus of a university that has a livestock pavilion.

(I say "may be" because I visited beetiger and bard_bloom in Ithaca once, and I don't remember whether I came on campus or not.)

They have a nice little dairy store, too, with university milk and pudding and stuff. Mmm, pudding. And a nice apple orchard, too. Most of my fond memories of Ithaca involve either food or dirt in one way or another.

Lancaster, huh? Bummer: that's a million miles from here.