I finally live somewhere!

I'm all moved out of Beth's house and working on moving into Scott's house. Scott recently completed some graduate work at UIUC in engineering and now works for the army corps of engineers in Urbana. I've very briefly met the other two guys I'll be living with. One of them is named John, I think, and I know very little about him. The other guy I met tonight. His name is George and he is an exchange student from Austria.

Tonight I cooked my first meal in my new house. I made some Madhur Jaffrey recipes: Beets and Shallots, and some red lentils served with rice. It was a great success because I remembered to half the salt in the recipes. Madhur has a taste for salty food.

After dinner I poked around all the boxes in my room and eventually decided that I'll need to get my bookshelf up the stairs before I can unpack any more. So instead, I walked to my office to do what I'm doing right now--the internet.

On my way, I pulled out my harmonica to play as I walked. I walked past a game of bike-polo--a sport I'll have to look more into--and then all of a sudden, a wild rabbit came running towards me across the lawn. I was a little bit scared (it was charging me!) so I stopped playing. The rabbit stopped too. Then I played some more, and it came closer. I was like the pied piper! It was seriously interested in my harmonica. I played for this rabbit for like 5 minutes, crouching on the sidewalk while it walked around me and tried to get as close to my face as it could without freaking itself out. Then I decided to see if it would follow me if I kept playing, and it did. It followed me to the end of the block and I heard some encouraging comments from passers-by and then was scared away by a bus.

I will have to try this again. This is just another reason to have a harmonica with you at all times.