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

[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. :)