I'm... er, not home, but somehwere

[dragojustine]

Arrived safe and, you know, no less sound than before. Very little in the way of internet- Mariott with no wireless (huh?) and I can't make the actual physical jack work *headdesk* Feeling generally unconnected and deprived. Deprived of fic, deprived of tv, deprived of flist. Due to logistical barriers, will be a solid week before I have actually MOVED IN anywhere (which I thought I was doing, you know, today) so that makes it worse.

Note: In the three days I was gone, not one person emailed me. Or commented. Or called. Not one.

Going to go be sad now.

*You know those hard/soft water experiments from elementary school science class, where you test how much soap foam different sources of water will make? New Mexico is those experiments on a grand scale.

*So. Many. Pickup trucks!

*Running out of ways to phrase "really big." (grand canyon, southern desert, this country, Texas. Big, large, sizable, huge, startlingly vast, etc)

*Texas so far looks like a caricature of Texas- too much space, too many cowboy hats, too many pickup trucks and rusted-out tractors, too many "support our troops" bumper stickers, too many restaurants with the word "steak" in the name.

*The Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex is, on first inspection, entirely without redeeming qualities save for the fact that we can sell a six-bedroom house for $150k and make money. Other than that? Pretty much the ass-end of the earth, or at least of urban America. I'm sure there are nicer bits, but I shan't be living there.

*Oh dear. I'm really doing this, aren't I?

Comments

[amara-m.livejournal.com]

I knew you were driving, so I didn't email. But I still love you!

And...El Paso is far, far worse than Dallas/Fort Worth. Way, way, far, far worse.

And I lived there for thirteen years.

[dragojustine.livejournal.com]

Heh. Yeah, I guess a city being butt-ugly and sprawly (oh God how I loathe sprawl) is not really reason to refuse to live there, sadly. I shall have to avoid El Paso, thanks for the tip.

[fakymcfakerson.livejournal.com]

You're alive! Huzzah!
I'm afraid that I didn't contact you because I don't really know you. Sorry. :( But, did I know you better, perhaps the reason for lack of contact would be because of the implied impossibility of contact?
Happy trails to you1

[dragojustine.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but logic like that keeps me from pouting, so who needs logic? Thank you!

[fakymcfakerson.livejournal.com]

Logic is for those who are too lazy to invent their own system of reasoning. :)

[miriad.livejournal.com]

1. Don't be sad. We love you!

2. How was the Grand Canyon? Was it everything you hoped for and more?

3. I shan't live in Texas either.

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[dragojustine.livejournal.com]

>3. I shan't live in Texas either.

V. wise. I am seeing this journal becoming all "Texas is so BIZARRE!" all the time.

The Grand Canyon was AWESOME.

Love you too! Also, finished Princess Bride. Laughed SO HARD at his little notes and asides. Same guy who did Butch Cassidy- who knew? Anyway, thank you so much for that!

[desertport]

I'm catching up on my flist from the whole weekend, or else I would have commented in one of your earlier posts! Very envious about your road trip, not so much about your destination. *g*

Sorry. I've driven through Texas a lot (family in El Paso and Las Cruces, NM), and it really is just as you describe. Kind of fun for a road trip, but then I really love the empty spaces you find out there. My family lived in Dallas for a few years when I was too young to remember it, and it didn't really jive with my parents for some reason. But their circumstances were different, and you seem like the kind of person who finds something to do wherever you go, and IIRC, you mentioned it's to be a short-term move? I'd just sit back, absorb the local flavor, and take copious notes for future J2 fic. :D

[dragojustine.livejournal.com]

Yeah- there's certainly enough local flavor to be had (most of it BBQ). Copious notes for J2 fic- copy that. I was already planning a San Antonio trip, so. *g*