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My husband is slowly falling in love with San Diego
"As a lifelong apartment dweller, here, in OC, and NYC, I can say that any pad can be personalized to satisfaction. The most noticeable change for the least money? Just paint the walls your color of choice!" No it can't. I live in a dark cave that has windows only on one side. I might as well be living in a rectum. I could paint it, but anything but white walls would make it appear even darker. Besides, management here would have a conniption. Here is what "student apartments" look like in Texas: http://www.rent.com/rentals/texas/austin-and-vici…— September 29, 2009 8:13 p.m.
My husband is slowly falling in love with San Diego
Fishy gushed: "...as far as I can see there's plenty of good food to eat here..." Well it's fine as long as all you're doing is looking at it. :)— September 29, 2009 8 p.m.
My husband is slowly falling in love with San Diego
In yet another display of overkill, gofurry piled on: "Hey! Get thee to "Possum Kingdom Lake" Yaaahoooo!!!" Furry, that lake is nowhere near Austin. But here it is, jest fur yew: http://www.possumkingdomlake.com/— September 29, 2009 7:55 p.m.
My husband is slowly falling in love with San Diego
Joe posted: http://www.lonestarroundup.com/ Nice if you're a car dude. :) I'm more interested in stuff like this: http://sxsw.com/film Not to mention these places, open year round: http://www.drafthouse.com/ ...where you drink while you watch a film and get better food than most of the restaurants in California serve. And once a year, there's also this: http://www.aclfestival.com/default.aspx Or on any given Monday night - which looks like Friday or Saturday night in most other cities - you can stumble down to Nuno's and catch guys like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GkB-o7tt_8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kqL3znKPW0 :)— September 29, 2009 7:49 p.m.
My husband is slowly falling in love with San Diego
Fish bubbled: "It's okay. We get that you don't get it. We don't get why you keep coming here and stay here, especially as you continually keep griping about life here and how great your life was elsewhere, but maybe it has to do with the way y'all was raised." The thing is, this article could be written about any town, anywhere, and have pretty much the same reaction and comments. People who have lived in one town all their lives are predictably provincial. Whatever they ID with (town, football team, etc.) is attached to their ego, and they get all offended if there's any suggestion that it's anything less than perfect. Anybody looks at it with new eyes, who hasn't been brainwashed into the cult from birth, and that person is attacked. There's nothing inaccurate about the original article. Just an honest reflection of one individual's experiences. That's it. And you'll notice that most (or at least a LOT) of people who come here in fact do 'not' end up staying, as the author notes. I'll be joining that group as soon as I'm done with the place. For now, however, I've got things to do that can best be done in California. I hope to complete them in the next 5 years or so, and then move my arse back to Texas. Austin, in fact... ...where I can get a decent meal without fish in it, paid for with what I won't have to pay in state income tax. :)— September 29, 2009 3:49 p.m.
My husband is slowly falling in love with San Diego
She's right about the crappy pizza, too. People out here will actually express the opinion that California Pizza Kitchen is "good." Really? Why? Because is has "California" in the name of it? Cardboard. Oh, but they give you a pager and buzz you when your table's ready? Technotoys are involved? Okay. Well I guess it must be good, then! The good news: The ocean/scenery, the weather (although it does get a bit boring after a while), the seafood, the tourist attractions, museums, etc., and a community college system with tuition rates that are the cheapest in the U.S. Really, it's the one bargain there is to be had out here. http://www.cccco.edu— September 29, 2009 11 a.m.
My husband is slowly falling in love with San Diego
Refried apologized: "What I seriously apologize for is hijacking thread of the authoress. Ma'am, I'm sorry. Sincerely. It was an honest article, and even though I took exception to it, I do admire all who are truthful in their writing." I'm sure she's observant enough to note that trying to navigate a story through here without getting hijacked by banditos is about like trying to drive an RV from Texas to Mexico City without the same thing happening. ;) Being a non-native of San Diego, I actually liked the original article. "I am from Chicago. Ten-year-olds own bikes. Adults do not. For fun, we drink Old Milwaukee from plastic cups and attend baseball games. We do not wake up early on weekends to take painful bike rides. We are sensible and embrace beer bellies. But Aaron is slowly falling in love with San Diego. The city has turned into a beautiful blonde, much more adventurous than I am. She shows him new hobbies, like surfing, scuba diving, and kayaking. I want to put a hit out on his sleazy new ladyfriend." I like this a lot. There's a choppiness to the first paragraph that reflects irritated terseness, then gives way to the first 3 sentences of the second, then back to the irritation. Cool. :) And totally understandable. I completely relate to her disgust at the one-bedroom dumps one has to pay $850 (a nice house payment elsewhere) to rent out here. My apartment looks like something I lived in while in college in the 80s, and hated even then. I call this one the same thing, "Brown Town." That's not a racial epithet, BTW, it's a reference to the fact that everything here is BROWN. Brown cabinets, brown carpet, brown doors, brown baseboards, brown exterior... The key word here would be BROWN. They should just call this place the "Not Cute Apartments" and be done with it. They should print up brochures that say, "Hell no, they're not cute. They're CHEAP (relatively speaking). WTF do you expect? It's California! YAY, California!!" And what's also irritating is the fact that people out here don't seem to know any better. They act like it's perfectly normal not to be able to afford a decent place to live when you have a middle class income. Ignorance is bliss, as the saying goes, and ain't that lucky for Californians? On the rare occassions when it drizzles a bit in SD, I've also laughed at people taking cover to huddle like frightened little sun bunnies when the shadow of a big nasty hawk goes soaring overhead. It's comical. In the northern end of the same state, up in Humboldt, people will whip out their umbrellies and go about their business in a deluge that would give Noah pause.— September 29, 2009 11 a.m.
Chick Lit
Vlad the inhaler writes? Oh, Nabokov. :) Why don't you teach lit, gringo? All ya needs is a masters degree. And, Robbins?— September 28, 2009 10:22 p.m.
Chick Lit
You people are going to make me read this, aren't you? (It certainly has a lovely beginning, I must say...) http://www.randomhouse.com/features/nabokov/lo_ex…— September 28, 2009 10:11 p.m.
Wnen The EKG Goes Flatline...Was It Worth It?
Okay, I've eaten my last KFC drumstick now. http://www.kentuckyfriedcruelty.com/w-whykfc.asp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP8Q7ZN1IkQ :(— September 28, 2009 10:04 p.m.