A guide to the places I've lived, and the websites that document them.

May 2005 - April 2006: the entire second floor of a beautiful 110-year-old house, including veranda and free use of the backyard, in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood. Too bad heat wasn't included.

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September 2003 - March 2004, September 2004 - May 2005: A plenty nice three-bedroom in a Hyde Park walk-up that Jon and I totally swanked up. It may have contributed to his delinquency in graduating, but the effort that Jon put into the apartment's website gained us local, if not international, reknown. Actually, it's a bit of a shock when people you don't know would come up to you at parties and say, "Hey, I know all about life in your apartment. According to your 'what's playing now' thingy, you guys sure play a lot of James Taylor."

March - June, 2004: A ground-floor room at the Fondation des Etats-Unis in the fourteenth arrondissement of Paris. Although the room resembled a jail cell in a few ways, I really couldn't complain about having a pied à terre in Paris in the springtime. I took history classes in the morning, lots of afternoon trips around the city, weekend trips around the content, and of course plenty of photos.

June - August, 2004: A homestay in a seventh-floor condo in the hills of Lausanne, Switzerland. Intensive French classes in the morning, and fun with the crazy Fachadas family in the evening. The views across Lake Geneva to the Alps above Evian were frosting on the cake.

September 2003: I think I spent a grand total of five nights at 5401 Woodlawn. What a dump — don't let the big common room fool you.

September 2001 - June 2003: Snell-Hitchcock Halls, University of Chicago. Has a reputation for being eclectic, which is quite an accomplishment at the U of C. Pics galore if you want to travel down my memory lane. And don't forget that 1,600-mile trip I did around Illinois as Homestar Runner for ScavHunt!!

© 2006 Jesse Friedman