8/3/10

[yagathai]

I don't believe in fate, or karma, or any of that predestination bushwah, and I know that we humans are wired to find patterns in the random Brownian motion of everyday life.

If I did believe in that stuff, though, there are three places which have, with increasingly unlikely regularity, been imposing themselves upon my awareness just as I've been contemplating a change of scenery: Austin, North Carolina and Portland OR. It's really getting to the point where I'm getting exasperated with the imp of perversity that I know does not exist.

Comments

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

Come to Austin!

Even just to visit!

[dear-amaranth.livejournal.com]

Austin? North Carolina? Wouldn't you have to hide from the sun about 10 months out of the year?

[lostreality.livejournal.com]

North Carolina is awesome! And actually, the weather here is nicer than Philly in the summer- I've had both philly weather and Greensboro NC weather up on my google home page since March (I moved from Philly to Greensboro a few weeks ago), and Greensboro is typically 2-5 degrees cooler in the summer, and at at most is around 2 degrees hotter on days when the hot weather gets here first- since Philly is very urban/made out of concrete and built over a freakin swamp, it gets insanely hot there in the summer and they have very few trees- and the ones that are big enough to give shade are just as likely to fall over and take out your car.

And then there's barely a winter in NC at all (it gets below freezing at night and maybe snows a couple times a year, but never enough to need to shovel anything) and they have nice very long springs and falls. :)

[roomette.livejournal.com]

I'm a fan of portland and austin.

For all the obvious reasons. :) I think the south holds a Rabbit. I would migrate south for a Rabbit.

[caudelac.livejournal.com]

If both of you migrated here, to the land in which I dwell, I would be the happiest of Rabbits!

[roomette.livejournal.com]

but you'd always have to sleep in the middle. Or Yagathai and I would fight over you.

[yagathai.livejournal.com]

... I would share.

[babyraven.livejournal.com]

Portland has been doing that to me, too. It seems to be the "hip new place" everyone wants to be, so I keep hearing about it from every corner.

[addienfaemne.livejournal.com]

if you come to austin, we can be roommates. i'm planning on moving there after korea, to do graduate school.

[devotdsatellite.livejournal.com]

wooooooooooo

[lacyintx.livejournal.com]

Yes, Austin, please!!!!!!!

[terraprime.livejournal.com]

Austin is in Texas.

North Carolina is in, well, North Carolina.

I would not visit either of them unless it's paid-for by work.

YMMV.

[regina-of-york.livejournal.com]

Did you not see the clause in the NE BWB contract that says you can never leave?

[cynic51.livejournal.com]

I have a lot of friends in Portland. They love it.

[devotdsatellite.livejournal.com]

austin!