John Koblin reports that Jennifer 8. Lee, New York Times Metro reporter, Twitter enthusiast, and master of the trend story, is taking a buyout. Shocking. Below, an internal staff memo that went out this afternoon honoring the Metro section's departed.

Trend story queen Jenny 8. Lee joins her Hunter College High School chum Sewell Chan on the Times City Room blog. God they must be sick of each other—first high school, then Harvard, then the Times? Their fellow schoolboy Nick Confessore had better stick tight to his Albany beat, else he gets shuffled over too and is also forced to reenact high school again. Except this time as a blogger. Heh. [NYO]

Turns out all that time Times reporter Jenny 8. Lee wasted chasing Neveah could have been better spent on name-trends closer to home. In today's NYT Real Estate section, the 'Habitats' feature is about a Williamsburg artist couple living loft-life with a new baby. Yawn all you like, then read the lede: