Hello, internet world! I'm Wade Gobel, currently a freshman at Carleton College. I've made a few web pages describing the highlights of my life thus far. You can get to any of the other pages by following the links below.
Food and cooking
Theater (or, rather, Theatre)
Computer Science
I was born in New Haven, Connecticut. I would say that makes me Connecticittian, but technically, we're "Nutmeggers", after the state tree. I don't particularly care for the phrase. It sounds like something preschool kids call each other.
I first lived in West Haven, 48 East Brown Street (I always thought that rhymed). It was pretty nice there, if you didn't mind the motorcycle gangs. We were very close to the water - you could see it past the house at the end of the block. Here's a little screenshot from Google Earth:
Our across-the-street neighbors were espscially nice. Once, when I was home alone and my television show ended, I ran across the street barefoot to their house - partly because I was scared, partly because "Rocko's Modern Life" would be on soon.
And our neighbors down the street were cool, too. They babysat me and my sister on multiple occasions - oftentimes with scores of other children we had never seen before. They had a movie of "The Dark Crystal" - one of my favorite children's books, but they wouldn't let me see it, saying that it was "too scary". I was scared by a lot of things in those days - they were probably right. I did see the movie several years later - it was pretty good. It's done with puppets, so Jim Henson - the guy who did The Muppets - was involved.
In retrospect, it wasn't the prettiest area. Sure, we had a nice public library with some good kids movies, sure, the car wash was fun, and sure, we had a Wa-Wa's before they completely disappeared from the East coast. But when you see people shoving fast food cups into the tops of decorative bushes you know there's a littering problem. This actually happened when I was walking back from the nearby public park with my parents. We didn't go back because there was broken glass under the swings. To my knowledge, no one ever cleaned it up.
When I was seven, we moved to New Haven and have been there since. We were a five-minute drive away from my elementary school - The Foote School - which meant that we always left the house late but got there just in time. On the subject of schools, if by some coincidental series of miscommunications you believe the scholastic institutions I attended actually did a good job on me, you can check out their websites and dispel whatever idealistic fantasies you may have had:
Our new house is in a great location. We're just a block away from a really nice park - one in which I've never seen a piece of litter anywhere - the Hamden Plaza (basically, it's too small to be called a mall) is a quick bike ride and even faster drive away, downtown is close enough not to be a hassle but far enough away not to be dangerous or smelly, and there are tons of restaurants, theaters, schools, museums, and food stores everywhere! Granted, we live near one of the busiest streets in the neighborhood, but you get used to it very quickly.
So, as you are no doubt unflinchingly eager to visit my little corener of Connecticittian pardise, make sure to check out these ice cream stores while you're here:
Ashley's:
http://www.guilfordct.com/ashleys/
Wentworth's (a little out of the way):
http://www.roadfood.com/Reviews/Overview.aspx?RefID=655
And, of course, there are a few Dairy Queens:
http://www.dairyqueen.com/en-US/default.htm
And don't forget - you're free to explore the rest of this site! Check out the links at the top.
