Jumping in, as I’m wont to do, to someone else’s argument…
I saw on DCblogs that “Girl from the South”, wrote about leaving DC, a place which just wasn’t ever really home to her.
lacochran and I see it a different way: we love it here.
Sure, there’s room to snark (See, for example: http://washwords.wordpress.com/snarkvlark/)
but, on the whole, DC is definitely my home now.
Among the things that STILL make me smile: Read the rest of this entry »
These quotes and phrases came to me courtesy of the Arlington Library Book Sale book bin. My new favorite spot: the box of “gift books”: quote books, guides, dictionaries, translations. Best of all, they’re all thrown randomly together. From this collection on this trip, I gleaned the following lines, poems all:
“The wind and the cherry blossom can never be good friends.” – Guy A. Zona, Even Withered Trees Give Prosperity to the Mountain and other Proverbs of Japan.
Sometimes out of the loop is the best place to be.
The top mommy nag my mom sent me off to college with was this: “Don’t join anything before October 15.” Why? Because in high school, I was kind of… well, a joiner is probably a kind way to put it. (Think “Tracey 
Flick” as played by Reese Witherspoon in “Election”)
Because join I did! I was secretary of honor society, Spanish class, sophomore class, junior class, Student Senate, Student Council (Yes, they were two different things – how very bicameral of us), editor-in-chief of my high school newspaper (and sole staff member most of its history).
(Sidebar: Who can’t wait for MTV’s “The Paper?” tomorrow night. Me! and all the other Tracy Flicks out there! Anywho…) I tried to take mom’s words to heart – after all working on that student paper (on my Apple IIC and using, yes, stencils, and literal cutting and pasting, with scissors till 3 and 4 a.m.) was a wee bit tiring.
