A cure!

[jackshoegazer]

It's morning. Going to go for breakfast. Trying to muster the energy to get out of bed despite sleeping plenty lately. Went out for Thai food and drinks with Jacquelyn's best friend and his girlfriend. Good times, funny stories, hot food. I can't remember the name of what I had, but it was number 75 on the menu.

i find dancing
is the bestest therapy
for bad grammar
but writing
just exacerbates
the problem.

When I'm in the house, I forget I'm in the mountains. As soon as I step outside, every time I step outside, I'm amazed at how vertical everything is. The sky is smaller, the houses look as if they just fell from the sky and landed wherever they are. In the flatlands of the Midwest, everything looks like a grid, pre-planned and fake, very sculptured and rigid. It's hard to imagine what the land was like before civilization encroached upon nature. Here, in the mountains, in rural Vermont, it's easy to imagine what the land looked like before. here, it feel like civilization is hanging by a thread, as if the mountains, if given a chance, could easily expel everyone and everything from its face, wash it down into the valleys, to be carried away by the rushing tides of the rivers.

I'm going to give Jacquelyn a good-morning-breath kiss and take a shower.

Comments

[kiwikat.livejournal.com]

the east coast has no mountains. those are not mountains. those are hills.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

We've had this discussion. They are small mountains. And they used to be bigger than the Rockies, but they've eroded down to their current size. You wouldn't say the elderly were never young, strapping adults just because they're old and shriveled now :P

[kiwikat.livejournal.com]

but i wanna be a mountain snob damnit!

[surrealkitten.livejournal.com]

*is wondering who jackie's best friend is*

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

SSSTTTTEEEEEEEEEEEEEVVVEE!

[surrealkitten.livejournal.com]

ha! oh, lord, i forgot all about him!

[atomic-goo.livejournal.com]

You can thank the government of 17so-in-so for the grid-like structure in the Midwest. As they were trying to control the rate of expansion in the West at that time, they partitioned off, I think, 36x36 acre land plots for buyers. That's why the entire Midwest from where you live out to Washington state and all the area in between is predominately square-shaped. I love my history class. I seem to be retaining knowledge from it. :)

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Whereas, on the east coast, for instance, Boston, the roads were designed by cows. Seriously. Boston was the cattle buying/selling capital of New england, and when the ranchers brought their cattle into the city, the trails made by the cows were later paved and became the roads.

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

I'm so bummed! I googled "Boston roads cows" to get more info on the cow thing, which I thought was cool and had forgotten about, and I found this instead:

Cow Path Tale Is Pure Bull (http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/04/25/how_now_cow_path_tale_is_pure_bull/)

Everything I believe in is a lie!