Duh

[thefuriouscynic]

You'd think that someone who has moved once across Canada and then again across the Atlantic Ocean in under three years would at least be aware of the self-evident wisdom I'm about to vomit here, but APPARENTLY NO. It took bouncing out of bed this morning and thinking, "Hurray, a new day!" and running through a mental list of all the pleasurable

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we shoud SO get e-

[jmargethe]

it's funny that you posted this now...i have been thinking about "place" a lot lately and especially this past weekend.

i believe that place CAN be - well, almost enough (in so much as there is ever 'enough') but that the measure of a place is in its mundanity...it is precisely those qualities of newness, exoticism, adventure which totally mislead. i mean, those are all well and good for the short term, but when they recede a bit, what's left?

i feel like i have been trying to explain this over and over to a handful of people lately, who have been really supportive of my moving overseas, but not for what i see as the 'right' reasons. to them its this opportunity for adventure and i feel like - weird as this might sound - that element is so far down my list of reasons! and what looks like exoticism and adventure to them doesn't look that way to me. and really, i suppose i just don't want exoticism, i just want to be happy.

Re: we shoud SO get e-

[thefuriouscynic]

No, I totally agree, and I had a few things related to you in the back of my mind when I wrote this (both that I was quite miserable in Vancouver after you, Lindsay, and Brock left, and your own move to Seattle). I think that all of those mundane qualities that somehow end up 'shining through', however, are brought to light when people from 'that place' step into your life and you're suddenly like, "Ah, so this is the real landscape." For me, it's the people who really comprise those little 'mundane' essential qualities, because you realize that they aren't particular to the space and could be anywhere, but that THIS place would be nothing without them. Minimal difference, blah blah blah

[jmargethe]

haha that was supposed to say E-MARRIED.

we should not get E.

[thefuriouscynic]

WHY NOT DO BOTH.

[thefuriouscynic]

Super.