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8/09/2005

Quick, quick I'm at Yale

Yesterday morning I was out of the Econo Lodge at 11am and sat around in the lobby for about 1 1/2 hours until Layne showed up to take us to their new home at Yale. We spent all yesterday afternoon unloading their very large, fully packed Penske truck into their sweet 2 bedroom (and one very large living room) apartment. It's within walking distance of the divinity school in the Whitehall complex. After 4 hours of unloading we took showers and went down to the Little Italy part of New Haven. Eerily, all the restaurants were closed, except for one - Frank Pepe's Pizza - which had a huge line out front. We thought that was a pretty good symbol of recommendation so we asked how long the wait was. We expected to wait about 45 minutes, but from the people in line this was apparently the best pizza.. in the WORLD. We'd be the judge of that. So we stood in line for about 30 minutes and got our two large pizzas. It was definitely amazing pizza. After dinner we got back to the apartment and everyone was so pooped we fell asleep at 9:15pm. While watching Arrested Development on my laptop in bed I heard something hit a car outside. So I looked outside and watched for about 5-10 minutes while 3 teenage boys threw rocks at passing cars. They'd grab rocks, bricks, whatever they could find and just nail the sides and windows of the cars. One guy stopped his car and the kids rushed him and threw rocks at him, too, so he got back in his car and took off. At one point I yelled at them and they all yelled back and came across the street to see who it was so they could torment me - the room where I was was dark so they couldn't tell. Layne didn't want me running out there in case they felt like tormenting them for the remainder of their 7 years at Yale. We called the police and then I went out there to chase them/find out where they went on their bikes. I couldn't find them, but we waited around while the cop asked us for information. Pretty crazy ending to the day. Don't tell Danae's mom though, she's worried enough about them moving in to a new neighborhood.