south(end)-bound train

[mad_eponine]

I rode the light rail a few weeks ago, down to the Othello stop and back. I figured that would be a long enough ride to give me a decent feel for the route. It was about a week or two after opening and I wanted to see it after some of the hype quieted down, as well as to see who was riding it. Unsurprisingly, the crowd looked like just about every

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[rimrunner]

Congrats on the new digs! Sounds fabulous. (There is, I am sure, adequate shoe storage, yes?)

[mad_eponine]

Thanks! Indeed! The closet room will be even bigger, actually. :)

[holyoutlaw]

Actually, a regular floor vacuum is more like a socialized suction, because it takes the dirt in a room and evenly redistributes it as a fine layer of dust.

A central vacuum, on the other hand, is more like an unregulated banking CEO vacuum. It takes all the dirt in a room and hogs it away in a distant location.

In other words, central vacuums clean more thoroughly than floor vacuums, even better than HEPA floor vacuums.

[mad_eponine]

Interesting. I'm going to have to look into actually using this system.

[holyoutlaw]

Getting it fixed if it breaks will be the hard part. But I lived in a house with a central vacuum cleaner and it was great.

[dannyman]

yum!

[mad_eponine]

Not as amazing--or urine-soaked--as the NYC subway, or NYC, though. You are living the far more literary lifestyle!

[dannyman]

Ahhh, I mostly hide in my home office all day. But yes, New York's transit system makes me moist inside! That said I'm really happy that the transit in your town has gone to its first dance and found itself the center of attention when there's a real valid fear that it might have spent the next decade sitting awkwardly in a folding chair by the wall, watching the cars drive by, being asked to dance only by the occasional nerd, who would nervously step on its toes.

[jtglover]

Congrats!

[mad_eponine]

Thank you! I thought of you when I realized that we'd be living closer to tha (real) south end... your childhood home beyond the city limits... the wilds of the south sound... the un-self-conscious hinterlands... :) :)

[jtglover]

The South End, where the self never lived or was.

I think of you often as I work on my current novel--no lie. It's this thing about, well... the souls of cities, neighborhoods... uh, urban gods... politics... racism... *sigh* Sometimes I think of it as (though I did not originally intend it to be) my Great American Novel set in Seattle.

[haloolah]

The new place sounds great, and I'm fully jealous of your mass-transit options. Sounds like you're living urban the right way.

[mad_eponine]

Thanks! I'm excited about the multitude of options.