Jan 19, 2005 18:05
i saw this on caitlyn's lj so i did it for me. where i used to live in maryland wasnt a hick-town, it was very "sheltered." im takign caitlyn's cue and starring the one's that apply to me.
You know more than 10 people who own boats and they all park them at the same marina in Annapolis
***You can pronounce and spell "Pocomoke," "Mattaponi," "Accokeek," and "Havre de Grace"
You prononce "Bowie" BOO-ie not BOW-ie or BAUW-ie
***1 hour is an easy commute to work
You have more than three recipies for crabcakes
***French fries just don't taste right without Old Bay
There are more than two crab places in your town
Even your high school cafeteria made good crabcakes
You got your first lacrosse stick before you were six years old
***You call all turtles "terrapins" [GO TERPS!!!]
You refer to your state as "Merlind"
***Your mother shops at Hecht's [we all did, but now only my grandparents do]
You still call Six Flags America "Adventure World", or even "Wild World"
You still remember the Wild World commercial (Wild World's the cure for the summertime blues!)
***You can tell the difference between the smells of septic and marsh.
You not only know how to eat hard crabs but you also know how to catch them, cook them and tell the males from the females. [i can eat them the real way but i do not know how to tell them apart, nor do i particularly want to]
***You don't think that Assawoman Bay is a strange name for a body of water.
You know perfectly well why Rehoboth is called "Little San Francisco"
***M R Ducks makes perfect sense. [i've been getting the shirts since i was 4 months old]
So does C M Wangs.
You think Salisbury is a big city.
***You think of dumplings as wet slippery squares of boiled dough.
You and your boss take off of work when the fish are running or the ducks are flying in.
You've eaten muskrat at a church dinner but think it's better the way you fix it.
You think of "Dairy Queen" as a pageant title and not a place to get an ice cream.
"Formal wear" is a ball cap, a flannel shirt and Timberlands.
***You still root for the Orioles even when they suck [go orioles! ...even though i almost got run over by a truck when i went to one of the games...]
***You'll never understand why tourists come to DC.
***When in Florida, you can only laugh when you see signs saying "Real Maryland Blue Crab Cakes!"
You color with "Crowns", take a "Share" with "Wooter" and think the president lives in "Warshenton."(DE!)
***You know the difference between Glen Burnie ghetto and Catonsville ghetto. [i lived in catonsville until i was 4 and my dad had an apartment in glen burnie when he had to work far away]
***Your whole family lives within a 200 mile radius of your town.[they did, until we moved]
Dale Earnhardt's accident was a close personal loss to your father{that, im glad to say, did not happen]
At least one man in your family is a waterman [no...my grandfather and uncle and his wife are the po po]
You plan for "The Festival" a year in advance. [my parents used to go to the wine festival before we moved]
***During the summer, you spend more time in Ocean City than at home. [since i was 4 months old!!]
Margret Heater, Hedspace, Jepetto, Outside Joke and Mary Prankster are people you think are "Famous"
Your radio dial is stuck on 99.1
***You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Maryland.
ok so anyway....midterms are this week. so far they arent that bad. tomorrow i have health and gym. i really dont feel like studying but i probably will until something i want to watch on tv comes on. ill study more tomorrow in the morning and between the tests. they shouldnt be too hard. whatever, i really dont care too much about these two midterms, or actually FINALS!!! haha im excited...
and oh shit, guess what i found! my chemistry book!!! it on the other side of dr. rush's room. she moved rishi and i over there to take the midterm and i saw a book under rishi's desk and it was mine! yay yay!! i put it in my locker right away and took out that book that i found on the bus which isnt mine but i was using for a couple weeks. so if anyone lost their chem book and is on bus 10, it's in dr. rush's room :)
ok im going to attempt to study for health now. peace.