I actually don't mind living near the train tracks -- we lived down the block from the commuter rail when I was growing up, though these tracks are closer to the house and the trains run more frequently -- but M has a lot of trouble sleeping anyway, so anything that's going to potentially disrupt his sleep could be problematic. But, not much we can do about it now, except maybe buy a second white noise machine.
Friends have come and gone, many boxes have been packed, and now I'm just waiting for Rose to wake up from her nap so she can eat and we can head to choir rehearsal. Looking like we'll be rather late...
I'm never scared by CMs that take place in the woods -- only the ones with urban single women! For obvious reasons.
I KNOW! Did you see the one where the guy was stalking the woman through her Facebook page? I immediately signed out of Facebook and vowed never to check in any where.
The CM with Bubbles hopping trains between killing people was set near here. That one wigged me out some.
I just watched the CM episode set in post-Katrina New Orleans. It was shit.
Why do people keep saying Jamaica isn't third world? What are you thinking of as third world? This isn't a "I don't see your race when I look at you..." thing, is it?
I think it's because the images most people have of Jamaica are Bob Marley and the tourism commercials showing all the pretty beaches and people having fun and relaxing. The images people have of "third world" is warlords and naked kids with their bellies sticking out. Those images don't really go together.
[link] It looks to me like Jamaica would still be considered Third World by most definitions. According to this anyway. I haven't looked up multiple sources.
If average Americans take vacations there, I don't think it's considered Third World (trademarked, copyrighted, Angelina Jolie goes there and poses with adorable children for the U.N.).
Uh, I'm sorry we didn't manage to do the correct pantomime of misery? I'm not sure what to say to that other than clearly our tourist board is pretty good, and I guess you guys don't get what the third world is.
Connie, seriously? That's your definition? That's what you're challenging my definition of my home on? Normal Americans don't go there? I don't think the World Bank uses travel agents as consultants, but that could be a thing.
People vacationed in Haiti, right? I don't think there's a question Haiti is third world as popularly defined now, although aurelia's link seems to say it was originally a much more political distinction than an economic one.
