River: You gave up everything you had. Simon: [Chinese] Everything I have is right here.

'Safe'


Natter 31 But Looks 29  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Hil R. - Jan 10, 2005 4:34:48 pm PST #4625 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Hurricanes and blizzards are not that scary to me. I've never experienced an earthquake, but they seem creepy, and tornados look really scary.


sarameg - Jan 10, 2005 4:35:47 pm PST #4626 of 10002

Actually, I prefer packed snow to black ice and slush. But...only if ther are no other drivers. I'm safe on packed snow. The rest of the world is what scares me. (I learned all my snow driving techniques on pole-position sytle curvy mountain roads with unguardrailed dropoffs.)

But other than that really minor and unlikely-realized distinction, I agree with you, ita. And it needs to have heated seats in every venue and covered or underground walkways, and OH! 10 hours sun daily.

So I'm not moving any further north.


§ ita § - Jan 10, 2005 4:36:44 pm PST #4627 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Earthquakes are quick, and hard to predict. So I like them, because no anticipation. As a Jamaican, hurricanes suck, because there's nowhere to go, except uphill.

Tornadoes are a mix of anticipatable and sudden. Don't make me feel good. I prefer to not be warned, if prevention is impossible.


Pix - Jan 10, 2005 4:37:56 pm PST #4628 of 10002
The status is NOT quo.

(I learned all my snow driving techniques on pole-position sytle curvy mountain roads with unguardrailed dropoffs.)

You want to see blind terror? Stick me on any road with a steep dropoff and no guardrails.

I'll be on the floor, thankyouverymuchandpleasepasstheValium


Betsy HP - Jan 10, 2005 4:38:32 pm PST #4629 of 10002
If I only had a brain...

I guess when it comes down to it, it's which city you love. I'd rather be in danger (the Big One *is* coming) than bored.


sarameg - Jan 10, 2005 4:41:05 pm PST #4630 of 10002

I like anticipation. I can be in the same room with an unopened birthday present for WEEKS.

I like planning ahead. Even if I can't do shit. I can pretend.

Tornados get my lizard brain in a tizzy, though. I'm blaming it on my parents being midwesterners. Despite being next to a freight line for a while, sometimes the sound catches me wrong and the adrenaline hits. And I've only been in the vicinity of actual tornados twice thrice- forgot the local baby tornados, and only once close enough to hear the eerie call.


Cass - Jan 10, 2005 4:42:13 pm PST #4631 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Huh. ita intrigued me with krav to the point that, as I was reading 100 posts or so, I had questions. That other people asked. And ita answered. This post? Not even needed anymore.

Thanks for the link, ita. I think I am going to check it out. Hoping someplace down here can work with a "no running" caveat as running leads to tendonitis flare-ups which lead to steroid shots in my hips and frankly I want to avoid those as much as possible. The needles are ginormous long and hurt like hell.


Pix - Jan 10, 2005 4:45:03 pm PST #4632 of 10002
The status is NOT quo.

I like anticipation. I can be in the same room with an unopened birthday present for WEEKS.

This is so me.

I like planning ahead. Even if I can't do shit. I can pretend.

Yes, this too. Plus, I find a kind of comfort in the ritual of preparing. Buying jugs of drinking water, filling the bathtubs and buckets with extra water to flush the toliet and clean (we have always had wells, so no power means no water), setting out flashlights and battaries and candles. It may be an illusion, but it's comforting to me nonetheless.

However, I definitely have to defer to ita in terms of locale. New England almost never gets the really big hurricanes, and we do have a lot of higher ground and inland to flee to.


sarameg - Jan 10, 2005 4:45:36 pm PST #4633 of 10002

Kristin, you and my mom. Poor woman married a climber and an astronomer. She spent(spends) a lot of time Not Looking That Way.

But hey, she survived Machu Picchu last year. Though she avoided the trail up the peak that even freaked out my dad (and that she thought he fell off of for about 2 hours. He didn't. It was someone else he helped carry down. She greeted him, absolutely furious that he was upright and walking and how DARE he not be the broken one.)


Frankenbuddha - Jan 10, 2005 4:47:05 pm PST #4634 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

So 24. Less than 4 hours in and Jack's breaking the law VERY publicly again. You'd think, given what's gone down the prior 3 years, that everybody would know his face by now. Heh.