I'm having trouble feeling sorry for you, except that I live in a relatively sunny part of San Francisco. I did my graduate work at the UofC and think Chicago is a great town - for food, for music, for sports if you care, for architecture, art, for nice sane people. Maybe I'd prefer to be in Paris, having lived in Knoxville, New York, Darmstadt, Geneva, and Santa Barbara - but imho you should buy a warm coat and a copy of The Last Hot Time and feel lucky. On Mon, 26 May 2003, Ruhlen, Rachel Louise (UMC-Student) wrote: > Steven Brust wrote: > > >Alas, I don't know of one since The Bakery in Chicago closed. Of course, > >any street corner in Budapest will produce places with some similarities. > > How distressing. We have yet to find one thing we like about Chicago, > where we will live in 10 days (for the post-doctoral position I was > offered now that I have successfully defended my dissertation and > graduated, something that I haven't yet made reference to too many > times). The opportunity to visit a restaurant patronized by a favorite > author would have been a small comfort to us. > > Rachel >