P-ton, aka "Privilege Town"

For my long lost Houston friends, here are some of my friends here in P-ton.

Here are David and Sheherazade, my dear friends and next door neighbors. David is also one of five people in my demography class here and is an urban geographer. Sheherazade is an admissions officer for Princeton. When we are all in town, it's sort of sitcom-like living next door and spending tons of time with each other. David and Sheherazade got married a few weeks ago, and had perhaps the most fund wedding in the history of weddings.

Here are Rania and Elisha, of my demography class as well. Rania is from Egypt. Elisha is from Tupelo, Mississippi, home of the famous annual Oleput celebration. Not only does she have a master's degree in statistics, but she also was Homecoming queen at her high school. You might want to hate her for her beauty and brains, but she's just so darn nice she'll win you over in a second. This picture was taken at Six Flags, the day after we finished our qualifying exam (and the million hours a week for months studying for it).

Here we have Courtney and Alex, a married couple of Rice grads. Courtney is an attorney for the general counsel's office of P-ton. Alex is a seminary student / bodybuilder. He also is the creator of the Original Arnold Schwarzenegger Game, the newest fad going around Princeton. It is fun, fun, fun! They don't always look this scary, but the only pictures I have are from a round of pose-offs from that very game. I have a bunch of other great seminary friends, but sadly no pictures of them.

This Carol Ann MacGregor, more often known as CAM, or sometime C-Mac. She uses the verb "to phone" instead of "to call" because she comes from the fair land of Canada.

Last but not least, here is my boyfriend Samir (and his newest nephew, on the left). He minored in practical jokes while at the University of Chicago getting his statistics degree. He is a marathon runner, yoga expert, and Alias afficionado, amongst his many other talents.

As a bonus, this is my grad housing apartment here in P-town. The complex is called the Butler Apartments. We call them the Butler Projects. They are reminiscent of mobile homes. Come winter, I will have to post a picture of the heating, which has only one vent which blows directly at the front door.