It's kinda magical back there with all the stones and pavers. Oddly my favorite section. I specifically got mine at the Catonsville Home Depot, but they probably have them at Eastern Avenue Home Depot.

Home Depot?

Just bought a couple bags of river stones there. About 16 dollars a bag.

Lol definitely said this in the various Baltimore area accents.

Can you get reimbursed for the travel?

I would take the train and sign up for the rewards program. Just try to book early and use a credit card to earn points.

Or move to CT or NJ or Brooklyn or Queens or the Bronx.

Or not take the job.

Yup this is the easiest, the one that best protects you from the elements, and the quickest.

I haven't ever seen beignets in pâtisseries or bakeries in Baltimore. There was/is a Louisiana themed restaurant in R House that had beignets. They were good. Pretty sure she was just using the Cafe du Monde mix. I stil appreciated it because I'm not frying up beignets in my own house.

I default to Pâtisserie Poupon. But other than the ones mentioned (which I have also heard good things about), during early COVID Le Comptoir du Vin was making pâtisseries. I had a delicious tarte Tropezienne there a couple of times.

I stopped at Croustille Cafe in Pikesville when I was at the dentist out there this week. It is kosher, and all I know is I really liked the vibe in there. Jazz, very bright, and butter aroma, smh. It was wonderful, many pastries on offer. I had an almond croissant and a baguette. They weren't bad, but I was bummed my croissant was pre-sliced and wasn't filled with frangipane but some other kind of pastry cream. They offered to put powdered sugar on top, which reminded me of beignets. Maybe they do beignets ? The baguette wasn't the best I have had but it is serviceable and it was still warm... I am a sucker for bread that is still warm from the oven.

It's not really just Baltimore. Louisiana and New York and Illinois and Michigan and etc. all have it, too.

Just money, influence, and power. Tale as old as time.

I haven't read this in full yet, but... It never ceases to amaze me that people do stuff like this. Smh. Just no respect or boundaries. If you are that desperate for money, do some moonlighting to get your bank account up. Hell get an OnlyFans if you must. But just rank stealing? 😒

Random but does your rent include utilities? I would try to negotiate but simultaneously look elsewhere. Landlords are out here doing whatever tf they want without remorse. That's why I finally bought last year after only ever renting my entire adult life.

The person who owned my house before me was renting the house for easily 4k at least. I had her old handyman come by to look at something, and he said she routinely buys rowhome in Fells, Upper Fells, Butchers Hill, etc., flips them for sell or rent, and the ones that don't sell she rents to Hopkins students for like 2k a head. I have been wondering if that included utilities, because my water and gas costs have been 300/month minimum the last couple of months. It surely didn't include parking because it's street parking around here unless you have a parking pad or garage. I still get some mail for these people smh.

My car is new, and it has been fine parking on the street. I just keep it empty and keep the doors locked.

It's very difficult to find New Orleans style without just ordering one from Louisiana. I gave up years ago.

Yes... someone was writing this and was like "Needs more drama."

When the contractors who worked on my house left their trash behind (a hodgepodge of roof shingles and things, a bucket of dried out concrete and sticks, it was just a mess), I took their construction trash to the dump on Reisterstown Road after I called 311 and researched how to access the dump online. Pretty sure either 311 or the internets told me not to get in the long line if I am a resident of the city. Indeed, there was a long line for actual contractors, but when I arrived near closing time, I did not get in the line but drove to the left of the line to the woman standing there, and told her I was a resident of the city with stuff some contractors left at my house. I was the only person in the line. I showed my ID showing I actually live in the city, and they sent me back to dump it. It was very anti-climatic. I basically got to the place and it was just a humongous dumpster that I put the stuff in. Very easy for me.

I was just in my regular Subaru, and it was a pretty smooth, simple interaction for me.

The largest grocery store is Streets and there are several smaller ones. If you're looking for like a Ralphs-like or Vons-like supermarket experience, you will not find that in any of the neighborhoods near either of those universities.

I am using close loosely now, but the closest to Homewood is probably Abell, Waverly, and probably Hampden. The closest to University of Maryland is probably Federal Hill. Bayview has a Streets Market nearby. And Hopkins Hospital's nearest grocery is probably Safeway or Whole Foods. And to be clear I am using grocery store as to mean medium or small vendors that sell mostly food and a good quantity of fresh food but has some general household items ot and do not specialize in cuisine of a certain ethnic group.

If the grocery stores are the main draw, maybe map them on Google, but there just aren't a whole lotta lotta walkable grocery store situations near universities in Baltimore.

For University of Maryland my answer is Mount Vernon or Downtown.

Lol this is funny but not.

Yes, ngl, when I first read this I thought to myself, "This sounds like Montreal, really," and kinda rolled over and went to sleep.

Not quite Europe, but similar.

Which Hopkins campus: hospital/medical school campus or Homewood or Bayview?

Mount Vernon and adjacent neighborhoods without more info. Wherever the Hopkins shuttle goes is easiest.

Yes. This has always been the case. Even prior to 1964, HBCUs admitted white students, but most didn't want to attend (still don't; we don't bite, promise). HBCUs routinely admitted non-white students who weren't black prior to 1964, too.

HBCUs started because blacks were not allowed to attend white schools, not the other way around. If you were black and were among the few who were admitted to white schools, you got treated like shit.

Typically, if you were black and applied to most non-HBUCs prior to 1964, you were generally rejected for being black.

Without HBCUs, the black middle class wouldn't have even existed.

Let me be clear, people harassing her are trash and wrong.

But, no, this is not how you get segregation. Segregation comes from actual policies. No one has a policy at Coppin or at any HBCU that representatives of an HBCU must be black.

Her harassers are ignorant and sorely mistaken.

I went to an HBCU. Um, no one at an HBCU would actually gaf about this. The only people who would probably haven't been to an HBCU. Mine was very diverse. The students pick their reps?? Just another case of people not knowing what they are talking about.

Even within HBCUs there are whole identifying-as-black folks that look like her, past and present... Nobody who has actually attended an HBCU is blinking an eye at this.

Girl, enjoy being queen and representing your school!

Lol on its face yes that doesn't sound indigent, at all.

But they do not strike me as wealthy people coming from years and years of other wealthy people/generational wealth. You don't know their legal bills. You don't how much debt they have. You don't know what amounts of money they have access to, either. Plus they have two kids, and those rugrats are expensive af: do their kids go to public or private school, what activities do they have, do the kids have a health problem that is expensive, etc.? They could also just be bad with money: many people with high salaries are. Do they have health problems that are expensive? So you have to trust the federal judge can see everything they have and let it go.

I guess it's possible they funneled half of Marilyn's salary to the Cayman Islands... But I just don't think they are that clever frankly.

Edit: Let me also add, many, many black people have negative net worth, man. You can call that shit bad "adulting" if you want, but plenty of actual documented history and research calls it something else. I'm a SBF and I and many folks I know are living proof. I personally do not like either Mosby, but I am also not going to believe that some of these realities do not apply to them.

Of course he is. People countersue all the time.

Me too. I don't think they are very considerate of your neighbors. I mean, you're assuming a lot about your neighbors when you make a decision to use one of these. It wouldn't be kind where I live, and there is a mix of young and old.

Recently someone in South Baltimore, maybe around Violetville, was talking about how she or a neighbor who are older use a device to keep young people believed to be involved in criminal activity or loitering away from private property. It emitted sounds at a frequency that can only be heard by younger folks with good hearing.

Perhaps it is something like that, aren't there still some old-times-were-good timers up there?

You mean like T. Rowe Price...? Or Franklin Templeton fka Legg Mason...?

I once used it regularly but I stopped. Every time I ended a lease I'd have an extremely high balance to pay. Like it wasn't even worth it to me, but I am a pay now or pay a moderate amount over time than a pay later all at once/surprise! person.