trip and a half...
Happy New Year, everyone :)
I'm going to make lists, because I like them.
Things I miss about Edmonton, upon leaving Boston:
And the thing that was the "trip and a half" that I mentioned in my heading like the good little girl I am, is this! I went to a new years' eve party last night (which was new years' eve) with Mason. The party was at the house of a friend of his from high school, and I knew about half the people there, which was cool; I figured, it was a good mix of people I'm comfortable with, and people I have no idea about to make it an interesting night. And it was! Was it ever! One of the people that I thought I didn't know turned out to have been a dude I went to elementary school with. And... had I not had such a terrible time in elementary school, I might have felt different than I did... I mean, I'm not going to bore you with details of "oh em gee nobody liked me in elementary school!" even though that's pretty much what happened... after elementary school I went to a different junior high and kind of started over, because I had to, and I didn't really ever see any of the kids who gave me a hard time again. From time to time I'd see them around the neighborhood though, and even up until a couple of years ago I'd freak out and have to walk the other way. But... it was weird, seeing this dude again in a completely different setting and both of us being in a completely different mindset. I'm not exactly sure how I feel... part of me wants to just lump all the kids from elementary into one section, label them all bastards and be done with it... but, it can't work that way, now. Nobody is the same when they were 10 as they are when they're 20. It's just a little weird having to confront those issues again when I thought that I'd either dealt with them, or else suppressed them enough to the point where I am not controlled by them anymore.
I'm going to make lists, because I like them.
Things I miss about Edmonton, upon leaving Boston:
- Seeing my friends in Edmonton.
- Hearing Canadian accents; I've discovered it's not even just an issue of vowel formations, but a pace issue as well.
- Talking with my Canadian accent without (or rather... "with-oat") fear of mockery.
- REAL SNOW!! Not that pansy crap all you Southerners (ie, Americans) think is hardcore but really isn't.
- Beautiful, beautiful Canadian money!
- Understanding political discussions.
- Eating food that I can't cook!
- Living in a house that does not belong to my parents.
- My roomies and our shenanigans...
- Not having to work my schedule around anyone else's.
- Cooking food for myself, and only myself; rather, only for someone else when I feel like it, and not because of a feeling of obligation.
- Wireless internet; slow as it sometimes is, it's convenient for many purposes!
- Living in a house that belongs to my parents.
- The snow and the cold; the real cold, that is, you pansies.
- Transportation. At least not having a car in Boston is moderately dealable-with.
- American money. (Oh-em-eff-gee, so ugly!)
- The age of the infrastructure of the city... odd, I know, but it kind of wears on me sometimes.
- American accents... they also wear on me, "sahhry", guys :D
- Political discussions... I always lose, even when I keep my mouth shut :D:D
And the thing that was the "trip and a half" that I mentioned in my heading like the good little girl I am, is this! I went to a new years' eve party last night (which was new years' eve) with Mason. The party was at the house of a friend of his from high school, and I knew about half the people there, which was cool; I figured, it was a good mix of people I'm comfortable with, and people I have no idea about to make it an interesting night. And it was! Was it ever! One of the people that I thought I didn't know turned out to have been a dude I went to elementary school with. And... had I not had such a terrible time in elementary school, I might have felt different than I did... I mean, I'm not going to bore you with details of "oh em gee nobody liked me in elementary school!" even though that's pretty much what happened... after elementary school I went to a different junior high and kind of started over, because I had to, and I didn't really ever see any of the kids who gave me a hard time again. From time to time I'd see them around the neighborhood though, and even up until a couple of years ago I'd freak out and have to walk the other way. But... it was weird, seeing this dude again in a completely different setting and both of us being in a completely different mindset. I'm not exactly sure how I feel... part of me wants to just lump all the kids from elementary into one section, label them all bastards and be done with it... but, it can't work that way, now. Nobody is the same when they were 10 as they are when they're 20. It's just a little weird having to confront those issues again when I thought that I'd either dealt with them, or else suppressed them enough to the point where I am not controlled by them anymore.