I remember when I did my college co-op, I lived with my Uncle in Maryland and commuted over the Beltway to McLean, VA. That experience did most certainly not fill me with delusions of adequacy.
Now, this would be the perfect time for a swear word.
Kaylee ,'Jaynestown'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Tom Scola - Mar 01, 2011 9:45:19 am PST #25838 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Polter-Cow - Mar 01, 2011 9:46:11 am PST #25839 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
a town or city built around car culture (Hi Arlington!)
Public transportation? What's that?
beth b - Mar 01, 2011 9:48:14 am PST #25840 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
iI have good parents . not crazy. two of them. They don't even give me that much grief because I don't call . (I am seriously lame that way )
Tom Scola - Mar 01, 2011 9:50:05 am PST #25841 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
BTW, have they finished the Silver Line yet? 'Cause that would have been REALLY useful to me in 1987.
§ ita § - Mar 01, 2011 9:51:07 am PST #25842 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Some of the crazy parents in my family are venomously destructively crazy. My parents? Hands off emotionally and recently wacky. I'm totally good with that. I have no idea how some of my cousins made it to even vaguely functional adulthood with the vipers' nests they grew up in. I mean, when your mother refuses to tell anyone who your father is because she's just that mad at the world...what chance do you have at growing up sane?
Gudanov - Mar 01, 2011 9:52:29 am PST #25843 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
I thought I wasn't allowed to have a car due to being a Working Girl On My Own? No???
Not only are you allowed to have a car, but you have your own demographic sterotype. Sporty two-door, 4 cylinder engine, automatic transmission.
Scrappy - Mar 01, 2011 9:57:07 am PST #25844 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Speaking of parents, today is the 10th anniversary of my dad's death. Don't need hugs, just want to note that fact. My dad was never able to keep a job so we were always broke, and my parents had a long stretch stretch of not being good parents when their drinking got bad and but when I was little and after they sobered up, they were great. Fun, smart, supportive, wise, all kinds of good.
Daisy Jane - Mar 01, 2011 9:57:30 am PST #25845 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
If this doesn't make you do a facepalm in re: Arlington's attitude toward mass transit, I don't know what will (aside from the fact that the Super Bowl did come to town and that was indeed a huge complaint, and they're still not going to do anything about it) [link]
Daisy Jane - Mar 01, 2011 9:58:01 am PST #25846 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Aw, Scrappy I'm sorry, but so glad you have good memories.
Gudanov - Mar 01, 2011 10:06:19 am PST #25847 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
Mass transit has a rough time in Kansas City. It keeps coming up time and time again, but the basic problem is that the city is so spread out that every proposal ends up being expensive while also only accommodating a limited number of people. Also, the airport is like a billion miles from anywhere anyone wants to go in the city.