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[otter_pops]

i think my only regret about leaving boston is that i never managed to scout out the place where ho chi minh once served as a busboy. dc takes itself more seriously as a city, with prompt and spitshine clean public transportation and a newspaper that avoids kitschy drivel. in boston people polarize everthing: you're either born here, or you're a

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[zipher]

I love reading about you being in love. You have a way of accurately describing almost every emotion you feel. When I read your posts about him, I know exactly how you feel..and it's amazing. <3

[otter_pops]

thank you :) i don't really ever intend to get sappy, or even to reveal too much in livejournal, but these things just need to be documented. it makes me happy that you care!

[jukebox_heroine]

i adore bon scott. ac/dc's my favorite band. i love brian johnson, but bon scott is the soul of rebellion and fire, without losing passion.

[otter_pops]

i am beginning to recognize the genius! i'm glad that i'm beginning to share admiration for a band with a music sage (obviously you!)

[jukebox_heroine]

eee! thanks! incidentally, i do love the way you write...

[otter_pops]

thank you :) that's really kind of you!

[codymitchell]

>>you're either born here, or you're a foreigner. you're a democrat, or you're mitt romney. you like either the red sox, or you like the patriots. if you like neither, you're probably just a pussy.<<

Try New York, LA, Chicago, San Diego. Hell, even my time in rural PA and VT.

Everywhere there's people it's like that.

[otter_pops]

i definitely agree with you - that most people have a tendency to polarize - and i know that it happens in places other than boston. but i've never been to a place where it's more pressingly thrown in your face.. maybe i'm suffering from the glow of young love with the district of columbia, but people are different here - they don't really care about your origins? in boston there are always the brahmin undertones that make me squirm.

[codymitchell]

Different experiences, different interpretations I guess. I spent a week in DC once. Very unpleasant one, I found everyone expected you to be A or B. If you were B when they wanted A, they were patronizing. If you weren't either they were downright snide. And everyone was way too solidified in themselves to notice what was going on around them, or they didn't just care. So fitting for the capitol.

I guess I just hate people.

[codymitchell]

Still, better than the short time I spent in Salt Lake City. :\

[jeff2001]

the nats beat the phillies, nobody cared.

Au contraire! Every Dodger fan, myself included, followed this with interest!

[otter_pops]

oh to be a fan of a team that isn't 11.5 games behind the yankees! baseball is supposed to Mean something in the autumn. to me, this year, it means nothing. i'm glad it Means something to you. go dodgers.

[cto]

Lovely post. I didn't know how much I'd miss Boston. After leaving, it didn't seem much. After coming back to New England I'm reminded and it's overwhelming. Boston (and New England elsewhere especially) is quaint. It's homey. It's folksy. Sometimes rude. But folksy. Chicago is square and defined and planned and expansive. It's built to work in. To live in. Not to lose yourself in. I scooted from Narrowsburg, NY to Hartford(ish) (where I'm working) a few weekends back. Every turn on each tiny state highway revealed fresh rolling hills, lush pastures, or tiny steepled churches dotted with ancient ecru grave markers. Each was a postcard my mind would cruely send back to myself in Chicago. So yeah. Chicago (or DC or anywhere) is nice. I don't miss Boston...until I go back there.

[otter_pops]

i miss new england too. boston, less. but i can imagine how i'd feel if i went back? new england is in a completely different place in my mind, new hampshire and vermont and maine. oh god. i'd live in burlington if it weren't so far removed from everything else. burlington's got lake champlain and the honest-to-god best used bookstore, when i go there i feel like it's a place of worship, that owner knows every book in his shop, matthew arnold & balzac & the travels of captain james cook. anyway, god, sorry :) - your sentence containing lush pastures and steepled churches was gorgeous, it made me pine for that trip. i know you don't like the life-in-a-hotel-room but i'm glad you get to travel. because i think you know exactly how to appreciate it.