settling in.

well. things do feel a bit settled these days. the apartment is starting to feel like home. shopping and laundry routines are still fucked up, but i'm not sure they could be anything else. communting to school is settling into a routine too... i'm there every day of the week this semester, and i've gotten the train schedules down pretty well.

i have missed living in the city. it is so awesome to be able to walk or take the subway everywhere we need to go. seriously. we've gotten rid of one of the cars too (*sniff* farewell, vw golf).

i just don't really get the suburbs. i mean, ok, kind of i do. you can have a yard and a decent garden. but other than that... why would you want to have to drive everywhere? and have houses all clumped together in one place, and shopping clumped together somewhere else, and traffic, and commuting, and school buses...? i guess i'm not a very good american.

it seems moderately pertinent among the horrific election rhetoric. the vision of what it means to be american is under the microscope these days, although only implicitly. but since 9/11 and the wars, the language of attack and defense and the accusations of "unpatriotic" have been flying. part of the traditional vision is, of course, the house with the yard and the cars and the white picket fence. i'm just not sure it should be. it's a selfish and expensive way to life, and with the economy and the environment being in the state they are, it seems like we ought to be looking forward towards what's new, not backwards. but that's scarier and harder.

noooooooooo.

what would be the point??