OTOH, you can find bastions of likemindedness even in places with a rep for not. You just have to hold your nose at the fed your place elects. See- Chapel Hill or my friend's home in Boise.
Yeah, I've been doing just that in Chapel Hill and Durham -- places that are tiny blue dots in a sea of NC red -- for (counts on fingers. continues to toes and beyond) 22 years now. It can be done. But I'm tired of it. And I figure, since I have to look elsewhere to find the job I want, I might as well find the larger community I want as well. Since I'm gonna be paying for a moving van either way.
I get that. I'm just in a good mood so am all optimistic and shit.
Go Canada, choose Canada!
But not Calgary.
I'm just in a good mood so am all optimistic and shit.
Wait, what? Where'd our cranky sarapants go??
I just saw the weirdest custom car. It was a mid-'80s Cutlass (the rear-drive one, not the front-drive Cutlass Ciera). It had a TV screen in the dash, and another one where the front passenger visor would be. There was a third LCD TV screen hanging from the ceiling for the rear passengers. And where you might expect to see rear-passenger headrests, there were two more TV screens, facing out the back window.
I mean, WTF? Is this some ride-pimpage trend I'm not familiar with?
I'm just in a good mood so am all optimistic and shit.
I'm glad! And I'm not trying to blow gloom and doom on you or anyone else. I'm really not fleeing NC just because it has a large conservative population. It's more a case of, since I'm going anyway I might as well try for everything I could want in an area.
Go Canada, choose Canada!
It's on the list, believe me. Well, BC and sections of Ontario are. There's that pesky work visa issue, but I'm hoping that if an employer really wants me s/he'll help out on that.
Where'd our cranky sarapants go??
She has booze and is determinedly ignoring everything else in her life.
Also, I've got this contrarian streak that makes me argue. Especially when I see doom&gloom. Drives my dad batfuck. Which is probably where it comes from. I just want everyone to get aloooong and be friendly and be convinced by me.
Or something.
What are people's weekend plans?
I'm going to see Bat Boy: The Musical in Canton tomorrow night. There might be drinking involved.
She has booze and is determinedly ignoring everything else in her life.
YAY FRIDAY NIGHT!!
What Jesse said. I have no booze yet, but soon I will have Hec and JZ here, and maybe then we they will have booze.