If it's about moving, the answer is "I came here from Michigan, but I'm from Jamaica," but at some point I have to explain there were some extra stops along the way.
I do that, too. Well, with MN and AK.
What is your childhood trauma?
Cordelia ,'Lessons'
Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.
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.
juliana - Mar 08, 2006 8:19:10 am PST #2686 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Sue - Mar 08, 2006 8:20:21 am PST #2687 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Not that I don't love my life! But, you know.
Perzactly.
well, there's only the one Tom, and I got him. Finders keepers!
I don't want your Tom. Just a Tom. And not necessarily a "Tom". Just a Tom-like, man-thing that I could call home.
Calli - Mar 08, 2006 8:20:40 am PST #2688 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I'm not sure where my home is. I might not have found it yet.
Jesse - Mar 08, 2006 8:21:39 am PST #2689 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sometimes people try to guess where I'm from based on my resume, but it's impossible -- there's nothing in MA on there. Which I guess is kind of funny.
Nilly - Mar 08, 2006 8:21:44 am PST #2690 of 10001
Swouncing
it's somewhere I'm glad to get back to, no matter how much I was enjoying where I was visiting.
OK, I love this definition, too.
Nora reminded me: a good friend of min described her husband just like that, as "her home". She knew that this was the man she wanted to marry because upon meeting him, getting to know him and spending time with him, she felt as if she's come home. There wasn't any 'big' love story involved, in more than one way they seemed to not fit each other, and yet. I just love this description.
Sean K - Mar 08, 2006 8:21:56 am PST #2691 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
from all the places that you've lived in, when you say the word "Home", what's the one that's in your mind's eyes?
Even though I call Michigan "back home," LA is home for me. And now, home is wherever S is.
Jesse - Mar 08, 2006 8:22:37 am PST #2692 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I don't want your Tom. Just a Tom. And not necessarily a "Tom". Just a Tom-like, man-thing that I could call home.
Yes, that. I also would enjoy being a homeowner in the real estate sense.
sarameg - Mar 08, 2006 8:24:07 am PST #2693 of 10001
I used to say I came from NM by way of NC. My identity as a New Mexican is really strong, which is funny since I haven't lived there in 13 years, and probably won't again.
Oddly, the idea of identifying as a Marylander or even a Baltimoron just seems ...well, like a lie.
Jesse - Mar 08, 2006 8:24:16 am PST #2694 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
(And the real estate thing is why I'm more jealous of Nora currently than, say, Lori -- you guys rent, right?)
brenda m - Mar 08, 2006 8:24:37 am PST #2695 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
From the day I moved here, Chicago has felt more like "home" than any other city I've lived in post-college. I don't think it's *there* yet, that deep-down, don't want to be anywhere else thing, but I think it will be eventually. But a not-Tom wouldn't go amiss.