Malaika’s CU Visit
June 8th, 2008 by erb
Well, it was an eventful week. Malaika flew in for her first Champaign-Urbana visit, primarily to look at houses for sale — and so we could see each other, when we could spare the time! 
First off, she got stuck in Chicago, but that was a Good Thing, I think! The alternatives are all Bad Things: Awful turbulence (which I would like, but I know Malaika would hate) — at BEST — and let’s not even hypothesize about the worst case. Suffice to say, there were awful thunderstorms all day and all night, and the Tornado Warning in our area was extended twice until 10:30. ‘Nuff said.
I wanted to mention how great our realtor, Barb, is. We highly recommend her! She’s been a lot of help, and really taken the time to show both Malaika and myself the entire area – Separately!
Thankfully, her Wednesday morning flight was on a much nicer, brighter, dryer day. She managed to make up for lost time with our realtor, Barb Johnson, and still see most of the neighborhoods and houses she was interested in over two days: Mahomet, Saint Joseph, Savoy, Champaign, and a bit of Urbana. In those short two days, we had some ups and downs, including getting excited over a house that was just out of our budget in Mahomet — one which I had been interested in already, before Malaika’s visit.
Then Malaika found a great house in Champaign, we decided to make an offer, and with minimal negotiations, we actually settled on an offering price. Voila! Mission accomplished in only one visit. And, to boot, we’ll be able to afford this one without needing to sell our Bainbridge Island house first, as a contingency. Yay!
After a few thundershowers this week, Malaika had a pretty uneventful flight back Saturday morning, even if it was a bit wet.
Speaking of, most of the area around here (central Illinois) is quite literally flooded. Most of the farmer’s fields are mini lakes in the corners and sides…
I ended the weekend by attending the Annual Wolfram Picnic, which was also celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the first release of Mathematica 1.0. Met some more new people, which is not surprising, given I’ve only worked there a couple weeks thus far…
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