This is the outside of one of the buildings at the American Tobacco Historic District in downtown Durham, North Carolina. The whole area is very, very cool – it’s something akin to what Oklahoma City’s Bricktown aspires to be but isn’t, quite. This is my second post-college trip to the Triangle area of North Carolina, and each time I visit it I become more fond. It was largely this area that contributed to North Carolina going blue last year, and between our lunch at American Tobacco with my childhood friend Erica, the driving tour of Raleigh that my friend Dylan gave us, and breakfast with my college roommate Mark, I’m warming brightly to the Triangle, despite the presence there of two of my least favorite schools, like, EVER. Aforementioned college roommate now attends Duke, BUT I GUESS WE’RE NONE OF US PERFECT.