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I know, right? I had e-mailed them last week and they sent me an e-mail a few days ago that said pretty much what you did (i.e. that they were all booked up for next year). Honestly, I'm a little surprised they'd turn away business - I mean, at the very least, you'd think they would refer us to some other realtors that could use the $. Oh well, back to the drawing board. Keep me in the loop re: what, if anything, you find. I'll be sure to do the same. Oh, and while we're on the topic of all things ND, how's the visitation going? I imagine that St. Patrick's Day in South Bend is something else ...

Oh ... and almost forget to mention ... let me know if you have your heart set on any of the properties listed on the linked websites. It's only fair that you get first crack at these since you were gracious enough to share them with me!

Hello again! I'll definitely be taking a trip out to South Bend in March - unfortunately, though, I've got comprehensive exams scheduled for the week of the _Weltliteratur_ conference, so I won't be out there until the following week, probably from the evening of the 24th to the morning of the 27th. My guess is that I probably won't get to meet any of the other recent admits, which sucks since I was looking forward to meeting everyone as well. Kudos to you for getting out there last summer to get a feel for the different neighborhoods; I really can't thank you enough for sharing all this information with me. The area you described ("Riverside") sounds perfect to me, provided I can find a property that'll let me bring the Cairn terrier along. Students and young families are pretty much my ideal neighbors, and I'm really hoping to find a place in my first year that I can "settle into" for the remainder of my time at ND. In terms of college sports, I'm from Philly so the whole "Holy War" / Villanova vs. St. Joe's basketball thing is pretty much hardwired into my brain. I'm hoping I'll be able to find some way to watch the big game out in South Bend everywhere, but we'll see. All that being said, tell me a bit about your research interests? I checked out your profile and it seems like there's a bit of overlap between the two of us, especially in terms of the Irish stuff.

A chara! I'll be heading into the Ph.D. program in Literature as well. Are you as excited as I am? More the point - since I notice you've got a big move ahead of you too - have you done any research on housing in South Bend? I've started to look into that whole thing online, but I'm having trouble figuring out what are good and not-so-good areas for grad students to live. I have a dog, so I'm guessing that apartment living is pretty much out of the running.