unhinged_in_seattle unhinged summer 2011 110425 ... Ouroboros whatcha doin' there? 110426 ... no reason jealous seattle was the city that got me the drunkest 110426 ... unhinged i'm moving there; my best friend got a job there and we are both sick of milwaukee (you have obviously not spent any time in milwaukee n_r. we are statistically the drunkest city in america ;-) ) 110426 ... Ouroboros seattle rocks. plus it's close to olympia (where i intend to move back to any day now.) plus it's close to canada. plus it's close to the only rain forest in the us. plus some awesomely seedy bars. plus home of "the stranger" my favorite weekly newspaper. etc. yay. 110426 ... lostgirl so happy for you! my best friend from college just moved to seattle from washington dc and she absolutely loves it. planning a trip out there to see her in the fall with some other college roommates....perhaps a blather_girls_night could be in order? 110426 ... no reason and a short ride to beautiful vancouver that's awesome though, unhinged. hopefully i'll get back there at some point and maybe we can get drunk in one of the drunkest cities in america? (ha) 110427 ... unhinged or maybe not ????? *sigh* i was supposed to move with a friend who already has a decent job out there and has already picked a building to live in. the rent office got back to him today and said the place is rent controlled. his salary will be close to the cap on the rent control which means even if i end up with a part time minimum wage job, i won't be able to live in the same apartment with him. but i won't be able to afford my own place. but i absolutely can't stay here. if i live here for one more winter i will lose it. i will snap. someone will get hurt. i will blemish my otherwise pristine public reputation. bad things will happen. do i go and struggle my ass off? do i stay and go postal? 110503 ... unhinged (ok ok, so maybe my public reputation is not exactly pristine...but it could be in seattle) 110503 ... unhinged seems to be back on track after an intense freak out last week. i still don't deal well with change; but i have decided this change is needed and inevitable. it is going to take work for me to move and reestablish myself thousands of miles away. no way around that. and i wouldn't be able to survive here in milwaukee without my friend that already has a job out there. so i have to go. no doubts, no fear, just do it. (thanks shambhala ; time for me to enact my training. i am brave. i can do it) i need to start over in a place where the ghosts of you are only in my head 110510 ... unhinged oh shit my place is looking boxed_up and mostly i'm excited 110721 ... silentbob My secret belief is that Seattle is the afterlife (if you've been a good person). 110722 ... silentbob If you needed any kind of encouragement, Seattle is so much fucking fun and just a good vibe to be in. "I'm not worried about you." --Bill Murray 110722 ... no reason when i went to visit seattle, i met people literally just after stepping out of my cab at my hotel. (they were californians, but still. it seemed like a friendly place.) 110722 ... no reason *that is, my cab from the bus station upon arriving to the city. 110722 ... birdmad i'd like to move to Seattle, but there are a couple of people from my past who retain the highest (or is that the lowest) place on my shit_list who already moved there and if i was there too, i would have to fight the urge to do something both stupid and evil 110722 ... unhinged thanks bobby; I'm glad you of all people reminded me of my innate ablities. anywhere has to be friendlier than milwaukee. the drunkest most segregated city in america is also the 4th poorest and all those factors combined don't make for friendly residents. move to seattle birdmad. I would discourage you from evil and we could each have a fellow skite to embark on our starting_over adventure thousands of miles from our previous residence 110722 ... unhinged on the train as i blathe holy_shit 110729 ... unhinged i'm here; starting to learn my way around the city. the weather is beautiful. i love looking at the mountains out my dining room window. now i just need to get a damn job 110801 ... unhinged finally got some alone time my butt is getting rounder, tighter from all the hiking around the city the awesome array of asian food is rocking my world learning this bus system is daunting 110802 ... n o m blathercon seattle? i'm going back to brazil soon, but if i can sneak in a visit to the states before or after then it'd be rad to hang with you unhinged. on the same token, if you venture north give me a shout! 110804 ... unhinged at the moment I don't have the papers to visit nom. my passport is expired but i can get a washington state id that allows me to cross the border which I will need soon anyways. you must be psychic dear; i saw jazz fiddlers busking at the pike place market yesterday and thought of you. 110805 ... jane mraow. i want to be a part of that blathercon. 110805 ... unhinged so far so beautiful and slowly_but_surely making some ground on the job situation starting_over mostly feels great 110812 ... unhinged will probably end up more temporary than I thought *sigh* 111117 ... ever dumbening oh no. what the feezy? 111118 ... epitome of incomprehensibility I hope things work out. Moving is... interesting. My passport's also expired. If I had any time/money I'd renew it so I could visit the States, though probably not Seattle (I'm in St. Catharines now, far far away). I'm not sure if there's no place like home: think of webs rather than roots. Probably not useful. Reality and words don't always coincide. But yes, all the best... 111118 ... unhinged i hate my job here, although at least its a job. I'm probably going to break down and apply for food stamps soon. the boy wants me to move back to milwaukee and can't really move here. and this ones worth keeping. and the skite that told me seattle is a cliquey town sure was right. I've lived here for four months and no friends in sight *sigh* 111118 ... jane my dear, the important thing is that you made the leap. xo, . 111201 ... teh mad googler plus 1 111201 ... unhinged thanks the bigger leap is moving back to milwaukee to live with the boy 111201 ... unhinged so much to love but the rain i can deal with the grey its a good color for me but the goddamn rain can suck my balls 120606 ... unhinged (the mountains magnetized me and when push came to shove any man that thought ugly name calling would motivate me didn't know me well enough to live with anyways so im gonna dig in here i like the food i like the mingledness i like the climate here is a better place than most to_be_miserable ) 120606 ... ever dumbening ! 120606 ... unhinged hey_e_d I've been thinking of you lately. the afternoon we spent at the moma was the last time I felt comfortable. Its been...difficult the past few months. how's it going? i could use a dance party myself 120606 ... unhinged emerald city i recently just gott the wizard of oz reference (duh) so many of us find ourselves here, transplanted, some storm knocking the wind out of us. sometimes i wish i could click my heels together and wake up at home. trouble is i don't know where i would end up 120614 ... REAListic optimIST Welcome to the Pacific Northwest! It's blooming season! 120614 ... unhinged tell me about it; my sinuses are well aware stupid_allergies 120614 ... unhinged my right rib cage is a mural of tantric anger my culinary vocabulary is global now i am pescetarian (the ocean was taunting me and i gave in) russian_literature_101 i am getting acupuncture twice a week and taking chinese herbs specially formulated for the arthritis tendonitis and carpal tunnel in my right arm. i can feel my fingers again (!!!!) 160223 what's it to you? who go blather from