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draegonhawke

And it's telling me, "Go forward and walk under a brighter sky…"

Apr 03, 2009 09:45

I am moving to the Phoenix area.

Following my boss's advice that I should go where I want to be and then find work from there, I'll be heading down after my lease here runs up at the end of July. I will be living with a host of lovelies - Jaqui, Aubrey, Rebecca - who are being especially lovely by handling the house-search for me. (This is a ( Read more... )

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sarah_prineas April 3 2009, 15:16:08 UTC

Hey, cool! I think that hot weather is going to be good for you; you're going to blossom down there!

draegonhawke April 3 2009, 15:20:00 UTC

It will have HEAT and DESERTS and NO WINTER! Words cannot describe how much I want this.

I am going to miss the co-op here, though. A lot.

sarah_prineas April 3 2009, 15:27:11 UTC

Oh, but they have Trader Joe's in Phoenix! Better than any co-op.

draegonhawke April 3 2009, 15:28:35 UTC

Oooh. I have heard tales of this mythical establishment, but I have never been in one! Not even while I was up in Seattle. Which was annoying, because I kept making plans to walk down to it and then... totally forgetting, or something.

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yetregressing April 3 2009, 15:30:04 UTC

Heeeeeeee! That's exciting. YAY FOR DESERTS.

However, I am concerned about all the Time Lords and Thane being in the same place. Or something.

<3333!!!!

(Also, US LoM sends me into an irrational rage. I clearly can never ever watch that show. Ever. Even though I might, just to see if I can survive.)

draegonhawke April 3 2009, 15:37:34 UTC

Heee! *scritches the Aikit*

I was going to say "At least my Thane is cancelled out by my Jack!" as if having Jack around a bunch of Doctors was an ameliorating factor.

Um, yeah.

...I have so far managed not to see any video whatsoever about A!LoM. I think this is probably for the best. (The still images were wrong enough.)

yetregressing April 3 2009, 15:49:26 UTC

*giggles* Oh Jack. I MISS YOU.

I... made the mistake of watching, like, the 'starter kit', on the ABC website. I wanted to punch babies afterwards. And then... yeah. Plus, Harvey Keitel will always be the bad guy from Sister Act, so... yeah. He is not Gene to me. AND THE ENDING DOESN'T SOUND LIKE IT MAKES ANY SENSE AT ALL.

draegonhawke April 3 2009, 15:54:24 UTC

*scritches Jack*

So far as I can tell, EVERYTHING IS WRONG WITH IT.

See icon. See icon have legitimate questions. See icon question the wisdom of American remakes. Question, icon, question.

Though the entire thing does make this post from a while ago unintentionally ironic.

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squeemu April 3 2009, 15:46:30 UTC

That's awesome! I heard from Baco that you were thinking about moving to California, but I'm glad you've settled on someplace you want to go. I'm excited to hear about how it all goes! And am also really excited to moving too.

ALTHOUGH IOWA IS SOUNDING PRETTY AWESOME RIGHT NOW

Also ahahahaha oh god I can't believe the horrors America TV inflicts on everything good. I had to look it up on Wikipedia before it started filtering through my WTF filters.

draegonhawke April 3 2009, 15:51:34 UTC

I KNOW. I AM SO PROUD OF MY LITTLE MIDWESTERN SOY STATE. THIRD IN THE NATION.

But it gives me such hope, because damn. If IOWA can do it...

Hopefully by the time I'm even considering marriage, more places will have passed laws. But, honestly, it's not the same-sex thing that gets me the most, it's the assumption of emotional monogamy. I love more than one person! I don't want to enter into a contract saying one of these is the pinnacle and excludes all others!

...but I imagine we've a long way to go before issues of that sort see their way to courts or legislatures.

squeemu April 3 2009, 18:01:46 UTC

I know! The hope! Oh, Iowa! ♥

I'm really excited about the same-sex thing, because we are actually thinking about it? Plus it would make the whole getting a job in a foreign country issue easier (...except NOT because of DOMA but whatever). And yeah, even though I'm emotionally monogamous by nature, I think it's pretty dumb to restrict people to just one person. I mean, obviously you should try and make sure the other people aren't monogamous by nature too, but that's just common sense.

Yeah, it's one of those things people point at as something EVEN MORE ATROCIOUSLY DISTURBING THAN TWO PEOPLE OF THE SAME SEX BEING IN LOVE! HORROR ...so yeah. I'm a thinkin' that one's gonna take awhile.

AND NOW I AM LATE FOR WORK SO I NEED TO GO

draegonhawke April 3 2009, 18:16:40 UTC

Hee!I hope that wherever you settle down will have friendly laws by the time you're looking at it. (If you want me to be a bridesmade, however, I am WEARING a tux.)

Yeah. For some reason, people still think of polygamy as part of the nadir of sexual deviance, down with pedophilia and bestiality. (Because people are unable to rationally consent if the number jumps from two to three? I don't know.) And in my case, it's not even that I'd be running off and having OMG ORGIES or something - uh, hi, asexuality. (Which I suppose might prompt some people to ask why I'd ever consider getting married in the first place, and then I'd have to beat them with the "MARRIAGE DOES NOT REDUCE TO SEX, FOOLS" card the gay community has had to carry for so long.) I just... don't lost the capacity to love people romantically after forming one romantic attachment.

It's about - as with any other romantic relationship, hell, as with any other human relationship - communication and mutual respect and understanding. It's not inherently wrong or ( ... )

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eiviiaru April 3 2009, 22:51:11 UTC

Congrats! I'm also planning on the "move where you want to be, then find work" plan soon, so awesomeness. May Phoenix be lovely.

draegonhawke April 4 2009, 03:18:45 UTC

Hurrah!

Where are you planning on? Got a few places in mind?

eiviiaru April 4 2009, 05:22:35 UTC

I'm going to be heading to Austin in June; it's a great city and I have friends there, so I'm looking forward to it a lot even though I'm not sure what I'll do there.

gracetherein April 4 2009, 04:49:33 UTC

Wow! Phoenix! ...at the end of July. I didn't realize that it would be so soon. :(

Congrats that you have A Plan and it's what you've wanted for a long while now. I'm just going to wibble in the corner over here. Phoenix is more than a four hour drive, it's more of a buy-a-plane-ticket ride. No jumping in the car spontaneously. Though I guess it was never all that spontaneous.

draegonhawke April 4 2009, 15:41:58 UTC

... :<

We will find ways to see each other again! Somehow! I'm sure of it!

But, yeah, finally getting out of the Midwest... this is something urgently to be desired, in my case. And it's awesome that I'll still be able to move in with friends. (And when I have an Earthship, you're TOTALLY moving out there with me. Right? ...right?)

gracetherein April 5 2009, 04:51:07 UTC

*hugs*

Yay! I really want to come see you in Phoenix when your all settled and stuff. Go out on the town. Probably during winter break where you will be warm and I will be bitter cold.

Yes, ready made friends is very handy and awesome, I am glad for you, truly. Also a definite yes/RIGHT! to the Earthship. I'll even help you build it.