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Volunteers/project leaders: it's Saturday night (and there is a man singing the blues outside my apartment window, o.O) -- who's got something for the Monday news update?
(Non-volunteer people who are watching me: you can safely ignore this entry, it's just to make sure I don't forget to give credit where credit is due.)
(Non-volunteer people who are watching me: you can safely ignore this entry, it's just to make sure I don't forget to give credit where credit is due.)
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Do you know I've never seen Homicide? I've heard it's really good, but Best Beloved and I watched the pilot a while back and neither one of us was really interested much by it, so we never bothered to keep going. I've heard it's a really accurate picture of certain elements of life here in B'more, but I don't know enough to say one way or the other. I think my favorite thing about B'more is how diverse it is, and how quickly things change -- there are people who say that B'more is a city of neighborhoods, which is true, but more than that, it's a city of streets. Things go street by street, and you'll have burned-out rowhouses being used as drug central, then walk two blocks and there'll be $500,000 townhouses and kids playing in the yard.
It's very bizarre. But it's the one major city on the northeastern seaboard that's actually affordable, cost-of-livingwise, and it's got such an awesome combination of southern and northern culture, and it has the worst baseball team ever but tickets are cheap and the stadium is gorgeous, and the people are awesome, and you can stand out on the street corner and see humanity in all its glory, and whenever i'm out in my wheelchair people hold doors for me and don't do that thing where they pretend I don't exist, and I love my crazy wacky city so much!
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Homicide- how did that catch my attention? I don't remember, but somehow it did, and that drew me to look at Baltimore, and that's kept me interested. I like that, a city of streets, and now I've put it on my list of places to see in the US when I take my cross-country trip, and it's on my list of places to try and stay for longer than a night, so I can get the sense of it.
Oh, I love me some local baseball, winning team or not, and local people with good manners. You've done so much in this little exchange to make Baltimore even more real to me... can we keep in touch a bit about this, so that when I get my stuff together for that trip, I can pick your brain and experience a bit?
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It'll be a couple of years, yet- this year's big event is getting back to Europe again, which takes all my spoons and some fancy organizing to pull off. But this cross-country trip's been in my dreams for over 50 years, and I'm gonna pull it off one way or another.
I'll take any sights and places you want to point out to me, and if it's even only to shake hands at the door, I'll be glad to meet you if you're up for it.
Blessings on your head, m'dear. This is a pleasure, meeting up here with the blues-man still playing in my thoughts.
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I did a cross-country US tour about six, seven years back, and it was great. You simply must add Yellowstone National Park to your list if it isn't there already; it's gorgeous.
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I've been up and down the Left Coast off and on all my life, down to the tip of Baja and as far south as Tepic, Nayarit, up to Anchorage, and up and down 101 & 5 more than I can count. But my East/West travel's been limited to coming out from Indiana on the train when I was 4, and taking my son to Prescott for University in 1992. I've got me some exploring coming, and Yellowstone's on the list (especially after watching the History Channel show on it. If I hadn't gone into Nursing, Geology might have grabbed me!)