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Allergies:
- Dust -- I got over this, thanks to my mum, but it meant I had to aerosol regularily throughout much of my childhood, and man, never again!
- Metal jewelry -- I suspect this is mostly the niccle (? no idea of the correct spelling, there, but it's the stuff they put in jewelry, the stuff that a lot of people are allergic to). I got my ears pierced when I was seven, but it wasn't until I hit puberty that the allergy started wrecking havoc. It's only been a few years since it's subsided enough thatI can wear (pure) silver and surgeical (sp?) steel again, but anything else is still bad.
- Anesthesia on my lower jaw -- Does. Not. Work. It gets all numb and stuff, but I can still feel the pain of the drilling. Hate it.
- Piercings closing up -- Admittedly, I've not tried it with my labret yet, and I suspect that one will close up eventually, but I've gone 24 hours without the barbel in, and not had trouble getting it back in, so it's slow. I didn't wear earrings at all between ages 14 and 19, and the holes hadn't closed.
- Long legs -- Like, really long legs. And also, shortish arms. Back when I did jazz ballet, I was actually capable of bending completely in half, pressing my upper body against my legs, as far down as I could get with my legs stretched, and I still couldn't get my hands flat on the ground. Sounds cool, doesn't it, long legs? It's not. Try getting a pair of trousers that fit -- especially in combination with my wide hips. Not to mention, when I stopped dancing, I lost of lot of limber-ness, but it always looked a lot worse than it was, because I was starting at a disadvantage.
- Short, stubby fingers -- I hate my hands, and that's all I'm going to say about it.
- Three-coloured eyes -- My eyes are mostly green, but with brown "rays" in them, and a (very small) blue ring around the outside. I don't get it, either.
Those of you who live in the States and want to tell monkey-boy (sorry, katemonkey, that was an insult to monkeys everywhere, wasn't it?) George "I love pretzels" Bush what you think of the impending war, see here. And the rest of you, there will apparently be protests on 15 and 18 January, depending on where you live. teanna has further info, I believe.
And on another note, re: yesterday's ep of The Osbournes, I would just like to say that Jack = most adorable little brother in the world. Awwwwww! Dude, Jack, forget about Nathalie, come sit on my lap!
You know my main problem with Strange Love? It's set in small town America, and while I know small towns, I don't know America, let alone small towns in America, and I keep feeling intimidated because I feel like I'm going to fuck up. This is, of course, a tad ridiculous, because it's about the characters, not the plot, or even the setting, and the characters I do know, but still.
*kicks self in shin* Must gain confidence in own writerly abilities.
May or may not be writing something in my head. That, at least, is a Good Thing. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to belong to any of the bunnies I should be writing.
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- At each other's houses (usually in my basement)
- Drove to the nearest small city/big town to go to the mall/bookstore/shows (about an hour away)
- Went out to eat: usually at a Bob Evans or the local Mexican restaurant
- Video rental store, which we hung out in for at least an hour pondering movies and scaring other customers before returning to my place to watch them.
- Music store. (Samm Goody) Where we harrassed the people working there, and wandered around looking shady and came up with stories in our heads about things and dissed music and bands.
Other people:
-There ARE bars, and there's usually one in your town or the next couple over that will serve minors. They're really really hickish.
- There were a lot of people at my school who, when it was somewhat warm, would hang out at this "park" beside the school that was really just some grass, an outdoor stage, and a gazebo. They smoked a lot and played hackey-sack.
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a) is fairly cold -- so, northish
b) is probably on/near the East Coast, since they're touring for one/two months, and they pass through Athens, Georgia
c) has a lake and a (pine, I believe) wood.
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Won't be able to help you there, but I'd like to express my sympathy. Mine is set in England, and while I have a reasonable amount of travelling experience, I've never actually lived there ... feels like I'm bound to get it all wrong. On the other hand, I don't want to take it to an alternate universe or anything -- I have given this some thought, but the story knows where it wants to be; I just don't trust myself to write it.
So, uh, I feel your pain and I wish I could help. (But I don't think you're very likely to fuck up, either. And you could always get someone who's actually lived in a small American town to read it over for realism?)
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Yeah, or if not wrong, per se, then like I'm really writing in a cliché version of the setting, because all I know about it is from books. :/
On the other hand, I don't want to take it to an alternate universe or anything -- I have given this some thought, but the story knows where it wants to be; I just don't trust myself to write it.
*nodnod* I considered setting SL in the UK, because at least I know I won't be screwing up too badly on the speech patterns and stuff then, but it just didn't feel right.