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Staying at home for the holidays is always a bit weird and regressive, but this time we have to add claustrophobic to the mix. My brother finished uni since the last time I came home, and so add him, all his possessions and his three ferrets to my dad's already small house. Neither of us ever stay with mom, for many reasons. It's been great to
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Hmm...I actually dont' know where Wauconda is? I lived in AH for most of my childhood and went to high school at Rolling Meadows, so you'd think I'd know it...???
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(My whole motivation for being interested in the reunion was mostly based on a, "See! You thought I was skinny and ugly in high school, but now look at me! And look at you, you probably overweight suburban couch potatoes!" With that kind of attitude, it's probably better that I didn't go.)
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(Of course, I do get a lot of blank stares when I say that I study bookmarks. Those satisfy me. And now I've started to get blank stares or smirks when I add that I'm also studying medieval and early modern fanfiction. I'm happy with both responses.)
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I misssssss Lonnnnnddddoooonnn!!!
Incidently, today is the first day I will be leaving Wisconsin and going into Chicago, and not even to see any of my friends who have been totally lame and not asking me to do anything. I hate everyone.
But I miss you! I hope you're having fun!
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I wish I'd known you'd be around becaus I would have meet you for a coffee! I'm in the burbies today making Xmas cookies with mom though, so that won't work out so well. Hope to see you soon though. Keep in touch!!!! You know you're welcome to stay by us again when you visit London--assuming no other lodger has booked the futon!
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By the same token, when I went to Champaign for school I attended both U of I and Parkland, the community college - and the cultural difference was startling. At one point during one of my Parkland classes, I discovered that a large number of people in the class were born in the area, had grown up there, had no plans to ever leave their hometown, and didn't understand those who did. Even more bizarrely, when they heard I was from the Chicagoland area - just the suburbs, not even the City itself - I suddenly found myself under attack, as if my original locale were some way of me attempting an air of superiority.
It was very very weird, on several levels.
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The cultural difference between North/South IL is something I've heard a lot about, but I'm your typical case that's never lived south of Chicago and therefore dont' know it firsthand. My friend Keith, however, has lived most of his life in/around Mattoon and I remember we had a disagreement about Obama because he said he was too Chicago-focused, which is something I never even would have thought about. I'm sure some of the southern angst is justified.
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BTW, I only alluded to this briefly in my other comments, but I really loved your post here, and its passionate but still slightly-conflicted voice. Especially given that these are the kinds of things I've been thinking about a lot over the past year, your own thoughts on the subject are fairly inspiring and something I keep coming back to.
Kudos to you, Ms. DiMeo.
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What kinds of things are you thinking about that sound similar to me here, or is just kind of general? And yes, I am conflicted. Sometimes I wonder if the reason behind my anger of other people's choices is that I'm really scared that my life is just as boring as theirs.
And, rmmm, yeah, the single quote is British. I honestly don't think I've picked up a ton of Britishism, but when you spend 2+ years writing papers that must conform to British conventions of spelling and punctuation, I guess it seeps into your daily life as well!
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Um. Yeah. I think my subconscious is telling me something. :P
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