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Seattlestraddle 12 years, 5 months agoHey, I’m thinking about moving to Seattle after I graduate. Any tips?
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I did that a year ago (moved here from Baltimore) — found a place on craigslist, called the one person I knew here to make sure they weren’t serial killers, and shipped myself across the country. One year later and I have managed to feed myself, keep a roof over my head, and even make friends… I’m calling it a success. I swing dance, which was…[Read more]
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Well thank you for the advice, I really appreciate it. I think I would hope to live on my own. But who knows that could change. I guess I just really don’t know what to expect, being from the Midwest. :P
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Well the weather is generally less terrifying, based on what I hear about the Midwest. People make a fuss about how rainy it is here, but fuck! You guys have tornadoes!
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We do, I used to live in Kansas so I’m used to tornadoes. I don’t think rain would bother me. If I enjoyed London in the rain, I doubt Seattle would let me down.
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Hah I’ve just done that! I got here yesterday and I graduated a week ago! It sucks so far, but that’s just cause it’s so stressful. It is super gorgeous. Especially Ballard.
I’m currently staying with a friend of my roommate’s mom. Anyone need two roommates??!!
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months ago“The Hours” by Michael Cunningham — it’s a rewriting of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, and once I got over my initial feeling that it was sacrilegious to attempt to copy the perfection that is Woolf, I really enjoyed it. It is Autostraddle-relevant because it has been rewritten around the AIDs epidemic in New York in the 1980s, whereas in “Mrs…[Read more]
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoReading George Elliott (a female author who wrote under a mans name for sexism purposes). She’s so, so great.
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I completely adore George Eliot. Have you read “Romola” or “Silias Marner”? They are both excellent and less well known than “Middlemarch” or “The Mill on the Floss.”
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I haven’t personally, but only because I haven’t had time yet. Silas Mather was an option for an outside reading project in English recently…
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That’s the problem about great books — there’s never enough time to read all of them.
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoAlright, I generally find myself opposed to reading books once they start to become big mainstream hits and turned into movies and stuff just because I’m weird like that. However, I recently finished reading Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen and it was so, so good. I couldn’t put it down. Unless you just randomly know a lot about the circus, the…[Read more]
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I read Water for Elephants when it first was published, and I really liked it. I think I’ll pass on the movie though- the last movie I saw with Reese Witherspoon in it made me never want to watch another one of her films ever again!
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I’m afraid of all the Twilighters following Robert Pattinson around. I might watch it once it hits DVD. It depends on reviews I guess, because I hate seeing movies that don’t do the books justice.
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Good god, twilight fangirls. I forgot. I was going to go see it in theatres after I read the book, now I’ll probably just illegally download it.
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Now, I can say from experience that going with a friend who also hates twilight fangirls and then making fun of them together during the movie can be a pretty good defense.
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Seattlestraddle 12 years, 5 months agoWhat neighborhoods do you all hail from/occupy? I live in Ballard, but I go to school and spend most of my time on Capitol Hill.
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Not technically IN Seattle, unfortunately. I work in Auburn, live in Kent. I hate the suburbs.
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I live in Greenlake right now, maybe more North College actually, and I work in Belltown with all the hobos, service workers, and sportscarpartypeople. I want to move a little further south than Greenlake, Greenlake has a lot of cute dogs but it’s kind of boring.
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We live in Greenwood, which is actually almost as Queer as Capitol Hill. It’s just not as hipster-ish.
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Aislynn posted an update in the group
The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoJude the Obscure via Thomas Hardy… not sure if it’ll measure up quite yet.
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoIsland of the Sequined Love Nun by Christopher Moore, my second of his books. He’s fantastic.
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I looove Christopher Moore. I just finished Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove and Coyote Blue. I think the only one I haven’t read yet is Fluke. I think my favorite is Fool, followed by You Suck (Abby Normal is an awesome character). I try not to read his books in any sort of public setting because I’m always getting weird looks from people as I…[Read more]
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Oh man, I just finished Fool. I really, really loved it!
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