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hecatehatesthat

Greetings from the Road!

Jun 10, 2008 13:13

…sort of. We're making a rest stop of my dad's house in New Jersey. It's a lucky thing for Bebop & me that he and mom live 1,000 miles apart, because it gave us an opportunity to figure out how much more crap we packed than we actually needed to bring, and a free place to stash all the stuff we're going to leave behind when we hit the road again ( Read more... )

be-bop and rocksteady take america

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jaina June 10 2008, 20:33:33 UTC

BITCH WHY ARE YOU NOT ARRANGING A PLAY DATE WITH ME RIGHT THE FUCK NOW IF YOU'RE JUST OVER THE STATE LINE?

hecatehatesthat June 10 2008, 23:20:51 UTC

Because I am totally unreliable? I need you to smack me around!

Whatcha wanna do? When are you free? I'm going to a car show with my dad tomorrow night but other than I'm all free time. I haven't made any plans with any of my other friends who're in the area yet, either.

We were thinking about trying to go to Bonaroo this weekend and I would really really love to but there's no way I can see more than maybe one or two friends here and make it to Tennessee for Saturday and so far we've only visited my sister's friends. And I want to see mine. But I don't want to bring it up while her boyfriend is here. I forsee a fight in our future. Sigh.

Anyway. I'm poor, so let's not do sushi. Fun and cheap, is what I am thinking.

jaina June 10 2008, 23:37:57 UTC

How long are you in the area? I've got plans on Sunday but Friday/Saturday this weekend are cleared up. I'm good for anything really-it's not like we can't amuse ourselves talking about various fandoms.

LIES jaina June 11 2008, 01:34:59 UTC

It's actually Sunday that I'm free. SO. Thursday/Friday/Sunday/whenever next week if you're still here then, but yay sooner is more betterer.

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nyonyo June 11 2008, 00:23:28 UTC

This whole post makes me ridiculously happy just reading it. You're on an adventure! For the sake of having an adventure! Throwing everything else to the wind! That is so exciting.

And I've been kind of surrounded by a ton of anti-American sentiment this last week, so the end of your post cheered me immensely. I have so much hope for an America once Obama gets elected too, but being overseas really emphasizes how much the rest of the world is displeased with America now, and how much it's going to take to fix it. I can't wait to be able to say, "I think things are going to change," more concretely, rather than just saying, "Well, most Americans aren't happy with the way things are now, either..."

hecatehatesthat June 11 2008, 02:16:40 UTC

I'm so glad it sounds like an adventure to you and not like A Dumb Idea!

Sometimes I really feel that I am the anti-American sentiment, when I find myself talking to stupid people. Which happens a lot. But then other times, I think that it's precisely because we're the worst that this is the place where the big change has to happen, if it's going to. And then I'm kind of proud. Of what we could be. And if we elect Obama it will seem a lot more possible.

I can imagine the contrast between being here with people who are barely aware of world opinion and being immersed in that opinion is tough to deal with! Even if we don't just ignore it here, we have the option.

But I really DO think things are going to be changing. I think enough people are seeing that they have to.