States and Countries We’ve Lived In: v. 2006.2

In which MuseBloggers describe where they've lived in the past, present or future. (Because Darth Yoda asked.) Remember, though, no names of cities or towns you currently live in. We want MuseBloggers' identities to remain mysterious. Gigantic cities like Chicago and New York are OK too. If it's got more than a quarter million people living there, you can give the name.

In which MuseBloggers describe where they’ve lived in the past, present or future. (Because Darth Yoda asked.) Remember, though, no names of cities or towns you currently live in. We want MuseBloggers’ identities to remain mysterious. Gigantic cities like Chicago and New York are OK too. If it’s got more than a quarter million people living there, you can give the name.

Date: May 25, 2006

Author: Rosanne Spector (Administrator)

Categories: Random craziness

Comments RSS TrackBack 129 comments

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amethyst

in May 25th, 2006 @ 18:08

Here, chicago, all the way.

First post?

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kiki_the_great

in May 25th, 2006 @ 18:11

FIRST POST!!! Twice this week!!

I live in Chicagoland, in a small suburb. I’ve only moved once, I move 8 blocks. I am so boring. I want to live in Cali or Utah. The problem is, I love my friends and would NEVER leave them.

If I didn’t have any friends, then I would move.

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kiki_the_great

in May 25th, 2006 @ 18:14

Chicagoland………. sounds like some far off country.. you know, with the “land” in it…..

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Darth Yoda who feels like being Canadian today. Eh?

in May 25th, 2006 @ 19:05

New Hampshire. I want to live in boston. And work at MIT.

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Otzi

in May 25th, 2006 @ 19:34

Hmmm… How big is gigantic, GAPA?

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FantasyFan?!?! PWL forever

in May 25th, 2006 @ 19:41

i live in michigan now . in the lower peninsula (can i say that?)

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Eccentric the Afterthought

in May 25th, 2006 @ 19:58

I live in Kentucky. The only time I lived anywhere else was when I spent a year or two in Indiana. I want to live in London someday. Or Chicago, if I stay in America.

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A Dijinn in a Bottle

in May 25th, 2006 @ 20:12

NC.

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Brave Sir Robbin

in May 25th, 2006 @ 20:16

I live in Los Angeles, California. I’m guessing that counts as a gigantic city.
I’ve lived there/here my whole life.

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Purple Panda

in May 25th, 2006 @ 21:10

I live in Pittsburgh, PA (is that a big enough city to post the name?)

I was born in NJ, then moved to Boston, MA, and now I live ^^

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Yup

in May 25th, 2006 @ 23:41

California, in thr REAL surfing caoital of the U.S.A.
(walks of muttering threats to the entire population of Huntington Beach)

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Robert Coontz (Administrator)

in May 25th, 2006 @ 23:49

Yup,

Are you the same person as 100% cotton?

PP,

Have you ever been to Muse, Pennsylvania? It’s supposed to be a suburb of Pittsburgh. Might just be the name of a post office now, though, for all I know.

Pittsburgh is also very close to Morgantown, West Virginia, site of the annual Pumpkin Drop.

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The Skipper Nancy

in May 26th, 2006 @ 01:08

Arizona, kokopelli’s birthplace!

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emogrl

in May 26th, 2006 @ 07:31

———-, Michigan.
yes, it does suck.

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kiki_the_great

in May 26th, 2006 @ 07:46

FantasyFan: Say hi to grandma if you live in Detroit!! (does that have more than a quarter million ppl?)

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Der Wachtelschlag (Queen J)

in May 26th, 2006 @ 08:04

I’m in Chicago, but I was born on Haskamir and have lived a large variety of places. And California is undisputedly the real surfing capital of the US. No doubt about it.

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FantasyFan?!?! PWL forever

in May 26th, 2006 @ 11:32

I DONT LIVE IN DETROIT BUT ITS RATHER CLOSE.

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The Skipper Nancy

in May 26th, 2006 @ 12:09

I lived in France for a year. That was cool, though I didn’t like it so much at the time.

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Pentatonikk

in May 26th, 2006 @ 14:11

Chicago pwns. The Muse offices are there, so how could it not? I’ve lived here my whole life, though I hope to live and work in China (if it ever gets less censored) or Japan in a few years, when I learn the languages.

(Actually, I live in a suburb of Chicago. But I’m so close that I just say I’m from there. Who’s gonna tell?)

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Sweet Melpomene

in May 26th, 2006 @ 14:27

PA. Somewhere near the Poconos.

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Gwendolyn of the Eastern Seas

in May 26th, 2006 @ 14:34

I live in a little town near Charleston, S.C. My dad runs a seafood restaurant there. My family has lived here longer than anywhere else (six years. I’ve had a grand total of eight homes before this. First move when I was either two weeks old or six weeks old.). I’m not exactly a classic GRITS (Urgh. I hate that term.), but I love it down here. The beaches, the weather, the people, the nature, the atomosphere. I don’t want to permanently live anywhere that’s not a lot like it.

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Andromeda Pineapple-duck

in May 26th, 2006 @ 14:39

I live in Hawaii. Can’t say which island, though. There’s definetly not a quarter of a million people here.

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elassÃ«~adael

in May 26th, 2006 @ 14:43

Minnesota!

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The Skipper Nancy

in May 26th, 2006 @ 14:43

Chicago. What’s that like? My sister wanted to go to university there, but it was too expensive.

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Darth Yoda who feels like being Canadian today. Eh?

in May 26th, 2006 @ 14:46

whoawhoawhoa
wait
did you just say you want to work in china?

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Purple Panda

in May 26th, 2006 @ 15:04

I just looked up Muse, PA on a map! It’s only a little over an hour away from where I live…maybe I’ll go there some day!

I probably won’t be at the pumpkin drop, though. My family is EXTREMELY busy and I’m 99.9% sure we have something going on then…but there is a .1% chance that I can come!!

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Der Wachtelschlag (Queen J)

in May 26th, 2006 @ 15:11

24-Booo-ring. Nothing. Ever. Happens. OK, some things do happen, but there isn’t even a ramen bar in the length and breadth of the city.

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Der Wachtelschlag (Queen J)

in May 26th, 2006 @ 15:12

2-I don’t have any friends. I want to move. You’ve only moved 8 blocks?!?

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The Skipper Nancy

in May 26th, 2006 @ 16:15

(24) Hmm. That’s unfortunate. The again, try living ****** AZ. Public transportation in virtually nonexistant, unless you live farther in town, and even then it’s pretty poor. I can’t go anywhere unless I have some one to drive me (there are no sidewalks, either). And it’s not like theres anywhere to go anyway.
I used to live down more near the interesting part of town but I moved up to the stupied posh section in kindergarden. There are some things I like about this city, but a lot of things I don’t.

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Sweet Melpomene

in May 26th, 2006 @ 18:10

28- Agreed.

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emogrl

in May 26th, 2006 @ 19:10

so chicagos a little overrated?
i still want to go there sometime, though

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Quintessentia

in May 26th, 2006 @ 20:07

I know a guy who has lived in Australia and Japan and a girl who has lived in Germany. I have only lived in Vermont and New Hampshire.

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Jadestone

in May 26th, 2006 @ 22:01

I live in Illionois. By Chicago. In the town of- I am so not telling you.

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Yup

in May 26th, 2006 @ 22:21

of course CA is the surfing capital of the us, i’m talking about cities. *more muttered threats about huntington beach*

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Andromeda Pineapple-duck

in May 26th, 2006 @ 23:13

29 – that’s exactly how it is here. NO public transportation whatsoever, and no sidewalks. The distances are probably longer over here though.

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Darth Yoda

in May 27th, 2006 @ 08:07

28-The people who moved into my previous house moved 67 1/2 feet.

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Sweet Melpomene

in May 27th, 2006 @ 09:20

I think there is only one taxi in my whole county. It says, “JESUS LOVES YOU,” on that little light-up triangular prism thing on top of it. So I’m pretty sure I’m always seeing the same one. Once I saw the Oscar Meyer Weiner Mobile. It’s even more annoying in person…erm…automobile?

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The Skipper Nancy

in May 27th, 2006 @ 11:50

We do have awesome washes up where I live, though. I used to spend hours with my freinds roaming around in the wash, buliding forts and playing games and such. The wash behind my house is pretty wide, and on the opposite side/bank there are these crumbly dirt cliffs (not very high, only 20-30 ft) and they have an awesome view of the my section of the wash. I like to go up there when I feel annoyed and just asit. That’s what I like about here. The desert. People think a place can only be lush if it’s got tall trees and green grass, and they overlook some of the most lush places just coz they’re dry, and the trees are small and the primary plant is cacti.
France was cool too, though. We lived near Paris in this little village called Bur Sur Yvette. It rained a lot, and you could walk to the bakery or the gorcery store. And on sundays to the market. There was this foresty area next to the community we lived in with wild blackberries and strwberries and we used to eat them, even when they were unripe. We used to dare eachother to try the green strawberries…

Hmm. Long boring reminiscing. Sry.

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kiki_the_great

in May 27th, 2006 @ 13:55

FantasyFan: ummm, doesit begin with a W? That’s all you need to tell me!!

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book_addict

in May 27th, 2006 @ 14:26

i live in Ohio. really horrible weather, really ugly, really flat, really boring, red state. i want to move to vermont…

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the pink stalking pengin of penzance

in May 27th, 2006 @ 15:39

NEW JERSEY
YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
40- vermont has the BEST skiing

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Taiwan Hippo Fan

in May 27th, 2006 @ 17:14

41–I had to do this thing on Vermont for school.
I’ve never been downhill skiing.

PS– I live in the 2nd state, Pennsylvania.

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Purple Panda

in May 27th, 2006 @ 17:49

what’s a wash?

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The Skipper Nancy

in May 27th, 2006 @ 22:33

(43) Oh. Right. It’s a dry riverbed. Sometimes they get some water in them when it rains. Otherwise, they’re just dry, long gorges filled with sand and lots and lots of trees/cacti/scrubs.

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purplefinch

in May 28th, 2006 @ 04:52

I used to live in Galway, Ireland, but I was not born there. In the future I wil live on Mars(of course).

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kricket

in May 28th, 2006 @ 09:31

42- so do i! The town I live in is soooooo small though! I bet you’ve never heard of it… okay you probably have but I’m not giving my Pennsylvania town name out… Never!
I have lived in Ohio, Tennessee, Maryland, and now I live in Pennsylvania… Oh how I wish to live in Michigan… but I have too many friends here so I don’t want to move until I go into college..

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kiki_the_great

in May 28th, 2006 @ 09:32

28- yeah. boooooooring. My parents didn’t want to move to a new school ditrict so they just found a really close house.

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kiki_the_great

in May 28th, 2006 @ 09:35

DOES ANYONE live in a suburb of chicago called S*****?

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ay Ipperskay AncyNay

in May 28th, 2006 @ 13:12

No, but I think my might have for a while.

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Purple Panda

in May 28th, 2006 @ 17:46

does anyone else live in Pittsburgh?

(Other than THF)

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kiki_the_great

in May 28th, 2006 @ 18:10

really? did you go to a school called M********?

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Bird

in May 28th, 2006 @ 18:17

Alaska all the way! i have never moved in my life and its kind of depressing but whatever. i live on a sort of 1/2 farm, goats and chickens and hay and stuff so its kinda hard to move. We live out of town but i recently found out a awesome short-cut for biking to town…

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Lizzie

in May 28th, 2006 @ 19:39

I live in a medium-sized hick town in Texas. And Juliette, you think Chicago is bad, try living here. People haven’t even _heard_ of ramen bars.

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Otzi

in May 28th, 2006 @ 19:55

More than a quarter million people, eh? Okay, well, I live in Seattle.

Being a typical seattlite, I consider it a nice day when it’s drizzling.

50- AAAHHHH!!!! PITTSBURGH!!!! EEEEEEKKKK!!!!! (The Seahawks wuz robbed) (And don’t you dare call me a whiner) *implodes*

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Otzi

in May 28th, 2006 @ 19:58

Although I am a born and bred Seattlite, I do not harbor anti-pittsburgh sentiments as badly as alot of my townsfolk. Some people say we should A-bomb Pittsburgh.

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Otzi

in May 28th, 2006 @ 19:59

I don’t EXACTLY Agree.

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Otzi

in May 28th, 2006 @ 20:00

37- Good lord! a Taxivangelist!

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Otzi

in May 28th, 2006 @ 20:03

29- Public TRANSPORTATION? PUBLIC TRANSPIRTATION?!!!
*Turns around innocently*
What Monorail crash?

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â™¥ shriya siolashrwa jeffica â™¥

in May 28th, 2006 @ 21:12

ive lived in the same little town in the adirondack mts of NY for all my life, but i was born in a diff. city.

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kiki_the_great

in May 28th, 2006 @ 21:52

otzi- hey have you ever been in the space needle?

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frogprincess

in May 28th, 2006 @ 22:43

I lived in Japan for a year. Once, I got to ring a temple gong. Another time, I sat in the dining car of a bullet train going 120 mph, drinking green tea and watching Mt. Fuji slip by in the distance, all at once. Now I live in Surf City.

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Axa

in May 29th, 2006 @ 00:32

Oooh Shinkansen! Causes a lot of problems though. Ah well.

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The Skipper Nancy and Lemon Curry (YA! LC's back!)

in May 29th, 2006 @ 01:50

(51) No, sorry, I meant I think my friend might have for a while. But that was (obviously) before she was my friend, so I don’t know what skool she went to.
(58) Right, well, the least my city could do is to actually havesidewalks. Well, they do have them, but not where I live in town.
(61) Cool! Did you learn any Japanese?

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Otzi

in May 29th, 2006 @ 15:43

60- Yes. They have good pancakes. But there are so many tourists and people trying to parachute off that you can hardly walk.

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Eccentric the Afterthought

in May 29th, 2006 @ 20:43

I didn’t think my city was big enough to mention, but according to Wikipedia, it is. I live in Louisville, Kentucky, home of the Kentucky Derby and the hot brown sandwich. It’s probably not as exciting as bigger cities, but it’s definitely interesting. If you ever visit, drink Heine Brothers’ Coffee!

60 – I visited Seattle and the Space Needle once, a few years ago. I went to a little cafe called something like “Sit and Spin”, where you could order food and do your laundry at the same time. It was fun!

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The Skipper Nancy

in May 29th, 2006 @ 22:59

Anyone ever been to those Sushi-Go-Round bars? I went to one in Sydney.You just come in and sit at the bar, and in front of you is this conveyor belt with all the sushi on it. You just pick up what you want, and at the end the number and color of your plates determines how much you pay. It’s really fun, even if the sushi is only mediocre.

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Bird

in May 29th, 2006 @ 23:40

# 53
um. whats a “ramen bar” ???

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The Stalking Yeti of Knottingham

in May 30th, 2006 @ 14:46

Upstate New York. All my life.

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Otzi

in May 30th, 2006 @ 18:15

A ramen bar is a bar where you go and eat ramen.

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book_addict

in May 30th, 2006 @ 18:24

half of me lives in upstate New York. we have a cabin up there. the rest of me lives down here.

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Otzi

in May 30th, 2006 @ 19:36

Seattle all the way, baby!

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Bird

in May 30th, 2006 @ 20:09

awsome. i love ramen!
Michelle W. if you are on… YOU LIVE IN AK!!! OMG! another alaskan!

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kiki_the_great

in May 31st, 2006 @ 16:56

I picture alaskans living in cabins with no electricity. Sorry if that’s prejudiced, but I’ve never been there and that’s just the picture that pops into my head.

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desertdragon

in May 31st, 2006 @ 18:46

Hey, it’s better than picturing them in igloos or hunting polar bears! Omigosh, you would not BELIEVE how many times I was asked if I lived in an igloo when i moved to AZ from alaska…..insanity.

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Em

in May 31st, 2006 @ 21:06

i live in a tiny little planned community.

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The Skipper Nancy

in May 31st, 2006 @ 21:30

Hi desertdragon! I live in AZ too! Do you like it? I do, but then, I never lived in Alaska.

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Em

in May 31st, 2006 @ 21:53

i may as well live in DC. people living in other states think i do. although, i actually am quite far from DC. at least compared to robert, who lives right on the border. am i allowed to say where robert lives? no probably not.

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desertdragon

in May 31st, 2006 @ 21:57

Hey Skipper! I really like AZ, only, it took some adjusting to get used to the heat, and the occasional random pie from Kokopelli!

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Robert Coontz (Administrator)

in May 31st, 2006 @ 21:59

I live in Alexandria, Virginia, just across the street from Arlington. Alexandria is a city without a county. Arlington is a county without any cities or towns. Virginia is an odd place in some ways.

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Em

in May 31st, 2006 @ 22:02

hey! i coulda told you that! you live at [ahem. –Admin.]. ‘cept i cant remember your phone number.

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Robert Coontz (Administrator)

in May 31st, 2006 @ 22:03

Oh, great. Now I’ll be wiping pies off my windows for months.

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Em

in May 31st, 2006 @ 22:05

wait- so arlington just has planned communities?

i also know where ebeth lives. it drives me nuts when people say they are eviler stalkers than anyone else, because they’re not actually stalkers. you need to put that in the FAQ. “Is anyone on this blog actually a stalker?” “No, just Em, and she’s harmless.”

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Em

in May 31st, 2006 @ 22:06

well you coulda zapped it. i seem to remember you zapping your phone number.

[Hm, good idea!]

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Em

in May 31st, 2006 @ 22:06

how did it start? 715…

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Em

in May 31st, 2006 @ 22:19

oh thanks. look, i gotta phone book right here, and i could go hang out at ebeth’s xanga and… just kidding.

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Em

in May 31st, 2006 @ 22:33

you never told me what was in arlington. is it just random houses and such, answering directly to arlington county instead of a more local gov’t?

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Veralidaine

in May 31st, 2006 @ 22:43

I live in a tiny farming community in southern Iowa, which means our school used to TOTALLY rocks until the government zapped all our money.. Because we’re shrinking. well DUH! Who’s gonna move somewhere with a crappy school? Stupid government.

Sorry about that.

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Robert Coontz (Administrator)

in June 1st, 2006 @ 06:22

Em (86),

It’s a lot like a city, but it has a county-style government instead of a mayor and such. Its neighborhoods have distinctive characters. It’s become quite built up and urbanized along the Metro line–lots of apartment buildings and condos and shops and restaurants. The buildings aren’t outrageously tall, though. Elsewhere it’s mostly residential neighborhoods, houses interspersed with small old-style shopping centers. Plenty of parks and trees and bike paths. Good schools. But as I’ve said, I live across the street in Alexandria.

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Ebeth The Lurker

in June 1st, 2006 @ 09:35

82-I’m a reasonably good stalker i think, thank you very much! Ok, so i can’t find people’s phone numbers. But then, i haven’t exactly tried. As for online stalking, i think i rank somewhere though, no?

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Dragon Eye

in June 1st, 2006 @ 13:05

I lived in isreal for a year when I was three because my dad had a job there. I had to learn hebrew, (the common language there.) I really don’t remember most of the words I learned there, but here are the one’s thet I do remember. Ahaught (1) Shtime(2) shalosh(3) sheba(4) lo(no) that’s pretty much all I know, I’m not really good with languages. And I’m not shure that’s how you spell them either. All the food was really different there. there was a type of bread called pita bread, that tasted really good but it’s really hard to find in america. I’ve never ever been in a place thats even close to being like the jarusalum market. there are so many people, smells, tastes, colors. everything and anything is there. some people live in places that has a million and one markets like this one, so you probably think I’m talking about the most boring thing on the planet, but the city I live in doesn’t have so much as a flea market, so it was the coolest thing on the planet to me.

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Bird

in June 1st, 2006 @ 14:24

We just studied Israel!
Pita bread is hard to find in the us? We have it at our tiny grocery store!

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Der Wachtelschlag (Queen J)

in June 1st, 2006 @ 16:30

87-I weep for you. Iowa is boooooo-ring beyond belief.

90-Pita bread is actually pretty easy to make. I can get you a recipe if you want. May I post a recipe, Mr. Coontz-sensei?

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Robert Coontz (Administrator)

in June 1st, 2006 @ 17:09

Hai, J-san. How could I possibly object to a recipe?

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Bird

in June 1st, 2006 @ 20:06

you can get it at the store. Trust birdie. you can get it at the store. *goes insane*

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The Only Hufflepuff Who Hates J. K. Rowling and/or Harry Potter

in June 1st, 2006 @ 22:56

Ya, pita bread’s not hard to find! We get it aometimes, its realy good with sour cream and lettuce. i know that might sound gross but ya.

Ive lived in Texas, Oregon, and finally California. moved three times within each state (soon to be four in Cali) makes ten times. ya, a lot.

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Bird

in June 2nd, 2006 @ 01:39

you poor thing! moving sounds bad bad badbda bda ba ab bad ! i have never moved but a good friend of mine did and it was hard hard hard hard hard h rahr h hdhashdesa la! hard for her familly. and her.

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The Only Hufflepuff Who Hates Harry Potter

in June 2nd, 2006 @ 16:04

Ya, but ive sort of gotten used to it…i don’t even remember my first 4 moves becasue i was so young.

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dark lord of darkness

in June 2nd, 2006 @ 16:17

New york W00t!
41- new joisey… yay?
i have across the street form my building, 6 floors above my aprtment, and where i am now.
I live in the lower east side.there are a quarrter of a million people living there so dont zap!)
ill bet theres at least 2 ramen bars in manhatten alone… let me check… 4 in the 1st ten google results! w00t! and one3 blocks away from me!
i know hebrew!
from my friend b’vakash b’vaksha
(i think that means shut up please)\
how do you make pita bread?
you’ve gotta like make it puff up in the middle
my parents say that it does it by itself but i dont believe

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dark lord of darkness

in June 2nd, 2006 @ 16:18

(4) MIT’s cool…

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VanZeppelin

in June 2nd, 2006 @ 16:57

1991-1997= near seattle
1997-current=near berkeley

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desertdragon

in June 2nd, 2006 @ 19:13

90. That’s so cool that you lived in Israel!!

96. Bird, did you just choke on something?

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Der Wachtelschlag (Queen J)

in June 2nd, 2006 @ 20:23

Why do you think moving is bad? Moving is good. You get out of a stuffy community and you get to see new people with exciting places. Also, it takes less time for people to realize how weird you are, and you get a non-teased interval. New schools are fun-hey! New teachers! Different pop quizzes! More people trying to fix your unfixable stutter! (I don’t know if you stutter but I do-it’s a source of perennial teachers’ conferences.)

95-Hummus is much more delicious than that. Or baba ganoosh-is that how you spell it? Probably not. It’s how it’s pronounced, anyway. Baba ganoosh is Baba Yaga’s special mix.

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Bird

in June 2nd, 2006 @ 22:14

queen j… oh you all are so deprived
when you seldom move you have people that you have known for so long you can’t remember a time without them. you trust them with your life. Meeting people are seeing stuff is what traveling is for. for example, if i walked down downtown __________ i would know 9/10 ths of the storeowners and people there. you are all so deprived…
no. desertdragon. i am not choking, i am just being my odd ‘ittle self! (its so wierd to be called bird all the time!)

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Tohwhhp

in June 2nd, 2006 @ 22:20

Yes I like hummus but sour cream rocks!!! i eat sour cream on a lot of things. Just like how i eat ketchup. ever had ketchup on canned peas?? ya its good.
moving is annoying. we are trying to sell our house and it’s…not going well. i mean its going sloooooooooooooooooooooooow very sloooooooooooooooooooooooow. ya. But we’re about to move near LA so its cool moving from where we are now. it will be a lot different.

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Otzi

in June 3rd, 2006 @ 22:57

Okay, peoples, let me tell you WHY Washington State is the best state ever:

IT WAS THE 42ND STATE TO JOIN THE UNION!!!!!!
42!!!!!
WASHINGTON IS THE ANSWER!!!!!!!!

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elassÃ«~adael

in June 3rd, 2006 @ 23:09

hee hee hee J-san. – san is about the only Japanese I know. Queenie J-san teach us all to make pita bread! I eat pita bread with hummus.

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elassÃ«~adael

in June 3rd, 2006 @ 23:15

baba ganouj is spelled something like the way I just spelled it I think… Go to an organic foods co-op type place or a trader joe’s to find it. it isn’t that hard to find (pita bread that is)

I want to go to Israel! and France (again), Costa Rica (again), Chile, China, Wales, Scotland, England, The uk in general, Germany, Nepal, India and lots of other places.

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Bird

in June 3rd, 2006 @ 23:56

i am such a pickey eater.i run screaming from hummas ever sence someones mom shoved some in my mouth once when i was little. this accually happened.
tohwhhp… good luck, and when you are there and unpacked it will be OVER!

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Otzi

in June 5th, 2006 @ 16:16

I want to go to egypt

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book_addict

in June 5th, 2006 @ 16:21

i want to go to iceland! my friend went there, and wrote about 10 pages of letters describing the food there!

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desertdragon

in June 5th, 2006 @ 18:56

Oooh, I just had some really good humus with jalepeno peppers and cilantro! Mmmmmm…. yummy.

110. Our class’s exchange student is from Iceland, she’s really cool!

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Otzi

in June 6th, 2006 @ 13:02

I might get to go almost anywhere in the world for a year for school.

I’m thinking
Italy or Japan or France or Peru or possily Senegal or India. That would rock.

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elassÃ«~adael

in June 6th, 2006 @ 15:11

I know exchange students from Egypt, India, Germany and somewhere is South America. (I forget which country)

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Violetfire

in June 8th, 2006 @ 12:12

I live in a tiny suburb of Chicago that no one would ever have heard of even if I did tell you what it was….

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Otzi

in June 8th, 2006 @ 19:58

Speaking of exchange students, a bunch of them from South Afric came to our school and went to classes with us. it was fun.

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Quintessentia

in June 8th, 2006 @ 20:28

My friend lived in South Africa for a year.
I live on a coast. It’s in the 50’s here. It’s June, for crying out loud! I’m freezing! Mrahr.

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Darth Yoda

in June 8th, 2006 @ 20:33

You have exchange students? My school is so dull. We’ve got-what?-one spanish kid. It would be so cool to meet people from other countries…

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Veralidaine

in June 8th, 2006 @ 22:45

We get exchange students in the high school. One came to the middle school to hang out with some kids he knew there and he just listened to his iPod the whole day and no one cared. It was great. This one teacher (she’s awful. she just is*shudder*) decided she spoke Spanish. Even though she never has before in her life….THAT was really funny. Later he told us he was calling her a lot of names and she acted like they were compliments.

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Monday

in June 12th, 2006 @ 17:37

let’s see…new zealand, iceland, wales, brazil, argentina, madagasgar, australia, greenland, sweden, finland, india, mongolia, mars, and russia…all in the future, unfortunately. actually, to some people, russia is my home. i was at a bible study once and my friend was introducin her other friend, who was there for the first time, and the guy who was that evening monopolozing the entire thing [he is a little clueless, as you will soon see] asked her where she was from. ‘____’ she said. ‘OK,’ he said. ‘And youre all from _____ too, right?” this was addressing my friends who had introduced the other friends. ‘Yes,’ they said, since they were, slightly confused i am sure about his sudden loss of memory then he pointed at me and said ‘russia, right?’ he honestly thought i was from russia and flew in or something every month just to come to this bible study and listen to him argue with himself over just what saul was doing in that cave. so i am russian. i speak awfully good english, dont you think? ;^)
but i’ll shut up now…
*lurks blindly*

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Lilbro the Sadistic

in June 14th, 2006 @ 20:37

right now i live in teeeeeeeny tiiiiiny ickle town. wel actuly i dont even live in town, but heck.

the midlskool has like 50 kids per grade, if that gives u an idea of how small the town is. 150 midlskoolers! this year anyways… theres an oil and gas boom goin on so we get new kids all the time…

one kid came from britian, stayed for two weeks, and moved away!!!

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The Skipper Nancy

in June 14th, 2006 @ 21:05

I lived in France for a year when I was 1-2, and then again when I was 8-9. Cool except for the part where I had to go to skool, and I didn’t speak any French. I chewed my pens really badly that year, because I was bored and nervous. But the cultural experience was good.

My cousin had an incurable stutter, Queen J, but it went away when he got older (for the most part).

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100% cotton

in June 15th, 2006 @ 10:42

we had a german exchange student this year/

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The Stalking Yeti of Knottingham

in June 17th, 2006 @ 09:05

I JUST FOUND OUT!

My hometown is the largest small town, geographically, in the WORLD! How flamablamablous is that?

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Sweet Melpomene

in June 18th, 2006 @ 13:30

I found this online. I think anyone else from PA will enjoy it. Everyone else will be confused. Completely. Please note that I don’t do all of these things. But I do know people who do.

YOU KNOW YOU’RE FROM PENNSYLVANIA WHEN…

You’ve never referred to Philadelphia as anything but “Philly.” And New Jersey has always been “Jersey.”

You refer to Pennsylvania as “PA.”

“You guys” is a perfectly acceptable reference to a group of men & women.

You know how to respond to the question “Djeetyet?” (Didyoueatyet?)

You learned to pronounce Bryn Mawr, Wilkes-Barre, Schuylkill, Bala Cynwyd, Duquesne, New Tripoli, Tunkhannock, Punxsutawney, Tamaqua, Susquehanna, Allegheny, and Monongahela.

You know what a “Mummer” is, and are disappointed if you can’t catch at least highlights of the parade.

The first day of buck and the first day of doe season are school holidays.

You can use the phrase “fire hall wedding reception” and not even bat an eye.

You can’t go to a wedding without hearing the “Chicken Dance,” at least one Polka and either an Italian song (sung in Italian,) or “Hava Nagila.”

At least 5 people on your block have electric “candles” in all or most of their windows all year long.

You own only three condiments “A-1, Heinz 57 and Heinz ketchup”.

Words like “hoagie”, “crick”, “chipped ham”, “sticky buns”, “shoo-fly pie”, “pierogies” and “pocketbook” actually mean something to you.

You can eat cold pizza (even for breakfast) and know others who do the same.

You know exactly what to do when your mother tells you to “red up” your room.

You know the time and location of every “wing night” in a 20 mile radius.

You don’t think people from Philly or Pittsburgh talk funny.

You don’t understand all the hype about Rolling Rock beer; You’ve been drinking it for years even though Iron City is better.

You consider an exotic vacation to be a trip to Ocean City, Virginia Beach, or Myrtle Beach.

Words like “hoagie”, “chipped ham”, and “pop” actually mean something to you.

You can go 2 weeks in winter without sunshine and think this is normal.

You know that Blue Ball, Intercourse, Climax, Bird-in-Hand, Virginville, Paradise, Mars, and Slippery Rock are all PA towns.

There is no such thing as a “Philly Cheesesteak”. It’s just called a “Cheesesteak.”

You know that Eucre is a card game and not a form of vomiting.

You not only have heard of Birch Beer, but you know that it comes in several colors: Red, Blue, White, Brown, Gold.

You ask the waitress for “dippy eggs” for breakfast.

You consider Pittsburgh to be “out west,” and you know the fastest way to Philly is the Turnpike.

When it snows, they put cinders on the roads instead of sand.

Know that Yuengling is pronounced “Ying-ling,” and believe that it really is a premium beer

You have an uncontrollable urge to buy bread and milk when you hear the word “snow.”

You live within two miles of a plant that makes potato chips, corn chips, pretzels, candy, or ice cream, or that packages turkeys, beans, or bologna.

You know what REAL pot pie is.

YOUR turkey has “filling,” not “stuffing,” and most certainly, NOT “dressing.”

You know that chicken corn soup from a fire house is the most nearly perfect food on earth.

You say things like, “Outen the lights,” “I’m calling off today,” and “They’re calling for snow.”

You’ve heard of distelfinks and hex signs.

You only buy your beer and soda by the case.

You have the Rolling Rock bottle memorized: “From the glass lined tanks of Old Latrobe, we tender this premium beer for your enjoyment. . . . ”

Frequently go “with,” e.g., “You going to the market? Mind if I come with?”

Refer to something as “a whole nother,” e.g., “That’s a whole nother issue.”

When you were a kid and somebody really annoyed you, you said, “I’m gonna deck you!”

You know the expression, “Hey naw! Watchya dewin’?”

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Capricious the great and terrible

in June 18th, 2006 @ 20:19

Ive never moved!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Veralidaine

in June 19th, 2006 @ 22:19

124: I know this is risky, but I’m going to post the Iowa version. As far as I know, no one will get it but me.

If….
you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 18 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by…
you’re proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights each year because it’s the coldest or hottest spot in the nation…
your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March…
you instinctively walk like a penguin for five months out of the year…
someone in a store offers you assistance, And they don’t work there….
your dad’s suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his forehead…
you have worn shorts and a parka at the same time….
your town has an equal number of bars and churches….
you have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number…

You might be from Iowa.

You know you are a TRUE Iowan WHEN:

1. “Vacation” means going east or west on I-80 for the weekend.
2. You measure distance in hours.
3. You know several people who have hit a deer more than once.
4. You often switch from “heat” to “A/C” in the same day and back again.
5. You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching.
6. You see people wearing camouflage at social events.
7. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
8. You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend knows how to use them.
9. You design your kid’s Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
10. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
11. You know all 5 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter, road construction and DARN HOT!
12. Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to your blue spruce.
13. You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.
14. Down South to you means Missouri.
15. A brat is something you eat.
16. Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new pole shed.
17. You go out to a tail gate party every Saturday .
18. Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors because your fireworks melted.
19. You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.
20. You find 0 degrees “a little chilly.”

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The Skipper Nancy

in June 19th, 2006 @ 23:10

whoa…
exactly how hot and cold does it get in Iwoa?

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The Skipper Nancy

in June 19th, 2006 @ 23:55

I made a few up for AZ. They’re not particularily witty, and they don’t actually apply to the whole state but whatever…

You know your from Arizona if…

Around April, betting pools about the day the temperature will break 100 start to crop up.

The only shoes you own are a pair of flip flops.

You think “monsoons” are rainstorms in July that bring you 8 out of the 12 inches of expected rainfall for the year.

You go to skool in January wearing a down jacket and boots over shorts and a t shirt.

You didn’t know until very recently that for some people, air conditioning is luxury and not a necessity.

Before your parents ever talked to you about drugs or cigarettes, they gave you hour long lectures on the importance of drinking enough water.

These are all about the climate of AZ, which actually varies a lot from place to place. There are some really cold places in AZ, so these don’t apply to the whole state.

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Veralidaine

in July 24th, 2006 @ 09:41

It doesn’t get into the extremes, but the problem is that in Iowa the winds cut through you like butter and a knife, and in summer, even if if’s only 60, you walk outside and feel like you’re taking a shower . It’s that humid.

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