Wow. Coming up with that many questions was hard, and there were a few repeats, even though I didn't really want there to be.
arysteia had some questions for me, in return:
1) What is the single best thing about being a New Yorker?The availability of nearly anything you can think of, at nearly any hour, is never very far away. That sense that you can
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I actually had a tiny bet going with myself as to whether you'd come up with something else. You know, like nuclear free maybe? Or women's suffrage? But no. My devil rather than my angel won.
I too was an cricketing uruk-hai -- cricket, hard to follow? It's far more logical than American Football -- and the place where the hobbits hid under a tree from the black riders was behind my house. Literally. Like twenty feet away. I got told off by security when walking home from class the night they filmed it...
I loved New York the three days I was there. I followed your advice and sought out pizza shops, and dear god it was a different beast to "pizza" here. The art galleries and museums of course. The things every tourist does if they have three days, I suppose. But it was kind of like Wellington if we grew up, if you know what I mean. We would be NY in another fifty years. Except that there's not enough room for that kind of growth, either, so it'll never happen. Definitely more like Wgtn than anywhere else I saw in my eight states though.
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There are ... wickets, and bowlers, and they stop for tea! It is very strange!
and the place where the hobbits hid under a tree from the black riders was behind my house. Literally. Like twenty feet away. I got told off by security when walking home from class the night they filmed it...
oh, cool.
I followed your advice and sought out pizza shops, and dear god it was a different beast to "pizza" here.
And almost anywhere else, even in this country.
But it was kind of like Wellington if we grew up, if you know what I mean. We would be NY in another fifty years. Except that there's not enough room for that kind of growth, either, so it'll never happen. Definitely more like Wgtn than anywhere else I saw in my eight states though.
Well, a smaller (cleaner?) version of NYC is nothing to sneeze at. It's the sense that almost anything is possible that really makes it.
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