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\"IMGP2861.JPG\"<\/td>\nAs the Greyhound bus drove into Santa Cruz this morning, i didn’t exactely feel light, and it wasn’t due to the small home (and mobile office) that i’ve been carrying on my back, turtle-style (in the good company of the new animal in my life, Chaim!), all these weeks. As i was telling travelling stories to my house mates Leta and Katie and we got stuck again in metric conversions, i realised there was another way to give them an idea of how much i had been carrying around: more or less half of my body weight. How light (well… almost) this had felt during other pieces of the journey. But i’ve arrived in Santa Cruz again, a move that fundamentally works against my laws of gravity, so it seems. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

But finding my house again was good. Peace and quiet (i’ll probably enjoy a week of that before it gets on my nerves…), bathing in sunlight, trees and flowers in bloom everywhere around us. And a sweet message from Berna, welcome back and if we could see each other soon and if we could celebrate her birthday together this week and that she had wanted to write before with the excitement and pictures from the May Day “A Day without an Immigrant” march in Santa Cruz. Also in Santa Cruz (some thousands of) people took to the streets, the biggest demo in quite some years it seems, and it made Berna and Feza so very happy.<\/p>\n

I want to begin telling you more about the house. It has changed while i was gone – Chris is moving out. Leta wrote me an email last week, apologizing that i had to find out like this, but: Chris fell in love. The “natural” implication of this, it seems, is that he is moving out. The concepts and order of things don’t cease to bewilder me. So first they were “dating”, then he “had a girlfriend”, and now he is “in love” and so “of course” he is moving out (and moving in with her). What happened to first being friends, or housemates for that matter, and then in love? Or first falling in love and then becoming friends\/companions?<\/i> As Katie suggested on another occassion: Nice idea, old-fashionedly beautiful, but profoundly time inefficient… Natascha (who has done more fieldwork on the matter \ud83d\ude42 and i were talking about that very strange world of sex, love and relationships in America just this weekend – a wedding as the prefect opportunity to do so – and she filled me in on her project to write a funny “cultural” guide to L.A.\/California for Europeans… And i figured that one of these days i should write up some of my strange encounters with “dating”… <\/p>\n

But i keep on drifting away from the house… which is looking for new people again, and so once more there’s an ad about the house on Craig’s list – and i take the opportunity to copy it below. True enough, the house is amazing. The discourse about family and living together, all the things “we” do, remains fascinating science-fiction to me. For those of you whom i didn’t have a chance to tell the stories in real life, tomorrow i’ll fill you in on how we “eat together”. In style.<\/p>\n

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\nCome Live in Style with 4 thirty-somethings in downtown Santa Cruz!<\/p>\n

Looking for a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153family\u00e2\u20ac\u009d atmosphere with responsible, motivated, and fun-loving people?<\/p>\n

We have an opening for one really special person in a room that is $650\/mo. starting June 1st<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Live in a quiet & beautiful house built in 1910, craftsman style
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 In a room with two large windows & great hard wood floors
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 With fruit trees, orange, tangerine, guava, and lemon
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 A beautiful dance\/yoga\/martial arts\/meditation room
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 A possible darkroom for photographers
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Several private study\/work spaces & DSL Internet
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Two attics furnished as guest rooms
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 A bicycle shed and a driveway
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 A 3 minute walk to the Laurel bus line
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 A huge kitchen & organic produce delivered to our house
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 In a quiet, friendly neighborhood.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Hot tub, piano, vegetable\/herb garden among other extra\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Soon to have a video projector surround sound movie theater<\/p>\n

We are three professionals and a grad student.<\/p>\n

Currently we have two males and three females, which we feel works best.
\nOne of our male housemates fell in love and is moving out to be with his girlfriend. We are hoping to find another male.<\/p>\n

We are looking for someone who is mature\/responsible and excited about participating in all that we do to maintain a supportive and caring home.<\/p>\n

Together we cook dinners and eat together; make decisions by consensus; share chores and house responsibilities; support one another; plan festive gatherings and most of all enjoy life!<\/p>\n

We strive to be open and available to each other in order to learn from, have fun with, and support each other\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lifestyles and needs.<\/p>\n

Email us and share about who you are and what you are looking for.
\nWe look forward in hearing from you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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