pied-à-terre

So Loopy and another grad student are both gonna be in Chicago a lot doing research this year. Loopy especially will want to be there in the evening so she can go to 12-step meetings (that's what her dissertation is about). So they decided to get an apartment to stay in and today they went down to look, look, look.

I just heard from Loopy a few minutes ago and they have selected an apartment just a few blocks from !!! That means it's also a few blocks from Vosges chocolates... yay!

Of course the dissertation research has first dibs, but I hope to get some fun out of it as well. Hopefully, you will too, depending on what they decide the "rules" will be for using it. (It's supposed to be a place for dissertation research after all!).

Anyway, don't you just love the phrase/concept "pied-à-terre"? I know, I know, it's very snotty, but c'mon.