trip over

[egypturnash]

The train was tedious. I was very glad to take a shower when I got to my mother's place. Oh, and it didn't really go "clickety-clack". Figures.

Now to get my body used to a place where sweating doesn't work...

Comments

[jenkatb4u.livejournal.com]

State of mind has, I've found, a large impact on your affinity to the heat. :o

Being calm and focusing on other things usually helps loads. Stress makes the heat bite harder. Aaaand, hug a nice shade tree and talk lots to em because they need not only the carbon dioxide, but company as well.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I grew up in New Orleans; you'd think my body would be able to deal with the weather here. But I've been living in California for most of a decade. I'm not sure if it's actually hotter in CA or LA overall, but in CA, sweat doesn't cling to your body like Spam reacting with its tin to form a kind of foul jelly it's encased in...

There are, at least, a lot more trees here than there are in Los Angeles.

Ramble

[jenkatb4u.livejournal.com]

I wonder if your artistic influence will be wilder now. Maybe because of the iamge I have from the festivals.. Maybe not since it's where you originated, a place of tradition and the old.

Maybe even a hurricaneoid will spawn in the future.

Re: Ramble

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Well. Growing up here is why I have a heavy Art Noveau influence in my art - Dan Frolich, the guy who was pretty much THE Mardi Gras artist of the seventies and eighties (float design, throws, posters...) was a complete Mucha fanboy, and that seeped into me over the years.

I hope for no hurricanes. They're a pain.

Re: Ramble

[jenkatb4u.livejournal.com]

Working in Venice has been interesting. I really need to take a walk around since my dad keeps going 'this is where all the freaks are'. And he doesn't mean anything bad by it.. It's just where there are a lot of people who look odd, fancy, broken-down, and everything in between. It's like a 30 min walk at most until you hit the boardwalk that spans almost the entire Pacific coast for Southern California. c.c

Also, there are quite a few walls that have been painted upon. Lots of new art and lots of old advertisments that're chipping at the grout lines on brick.

So. I gotta walk around a bit there.

Re: Ramble

[holohedron.livejournal.com]

Face it, you work in Charmdown.

Actually, forgive me if this is too forward, but how'd you feel about meeting for dinner some night? Fellow freaky-PBX-types are in short supply :3

(heh, maybe I could coax out KaniS and make it a group outing...)

Re: Ramble

[jenkatb4u.livejournal.com]

I can't drive. :B Not legally anyway and I'd be too paranoid to drive on the freeway anyway. Especially unliscensed.

So I'm afraid I can't meet on the grounds that I'd be a hassle to meet and transport! Also, I'm not really a well-known cog in the puzzlebox community anyway. ;; I don't think so anyway. I don't live in Venice.

Re: Ramble

[zeeth_kyrah]

A hurry-canid?

Re: Ramble

[jenkatb4u.livejournal.com]

There she comes, dancing across the seas.

With reckless grace, she tumbles homes with ease.

[milkpanzer.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you made it there safely!
Yeah, I've heard taking the train is really dull and tedious. Especially if you have to actually sit up the entire time. :P

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

The worst part was listening to the women in front of me bitch that they were never gonna take the train again, every time it stopped for a bit.

I didn't have anyone in the seat next to me, so I was able to lie down. I spent a lot of the trip either reading, or completely zoned out.

[neillparatzo.livejournal.com]

One of the things I'm really going to miss about moving away from NYC is the fact I'm a short walk away from a massive Amtrak hub.

I was gonna train into Philadelphia for Thanksgiving. It would've taken an hour and a half. Boo. Now I guess I'll just fly.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

The train is probably a lot better up in the Northeast than it is out West. And epic journeys just aren't much fun; I was on the train from Los Angeles to New Orleans for about 49 hours, total.

Now, a plane from NYC to Philly, yeah, that'd probably take longer what with the security crap and everything, but... I guess each method of transport has a minimum efficient distance, and a maximum one. If I'd had a coupel hundred more to spent, I'd have gone for a plane. It was worth doing once.

[neillparatzo.livejournal.com]

No, I meant if I was still living in NYC, I could take Amtrak from Penn Station to Philadelphia 30th Street and be there in an hour and a half. Flying would be absurd.

But I'm moving to Quebec, so :(

The train is definitely fantastic up here in the northeast rail corridor.

The City of New Orleans

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know why, but I've got this old Arlo Guthrie/Steve Goodman song stuck in my head:

Good morning America how are you?
Don't you know me I'm your native son,
I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans,
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.

Re: The City of New Orleans

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

That one goes up and down the Misissippi. *grin*

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

Try russling up some zombie juice or hurricane drops. That might help you adapt.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

"drunk off my ass" != "adapted", IMHO.

[zeeth_kyrah]

That's what the special plugs are for.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

bleep.

[rhinoscillator.livejournal.com]

Glad you made it safe and sound. I hope New Orleans and this new gig will be good to you.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

So do I. It's not going to be able to start for a week or two, until my stuff catches up with me... I keep on worrying Something will Go Wrong in the intervening time. I need to stop worrying and just draw or something.

[ultraken.livejournal.com]

I was wondering if you had gotten back yet, and that answers my question. :)

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was going to call you, but I was getting tired and just went to bed.

I left my coat on your chair, too. Which was something I started wishing I hadn't done when I discovered how high they had the AC up all night. *shiver*

[ultraken.livejournal.com]

I suppose it's a testament to the general chaos in my place that I hadn't even noticed...

[(Anonymous)]

And the general chaos of your work life, too.

It's out of the way, after all. I reminded myself of it something like three times, but when the moment hit... it got forgotten. Ah well!

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

(That anonymous comment was me, of course.)

[doctorpinkerton.livejournal.com]

Yea! Welcome back home again Peggy. We should do pizza.

[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

Yay! Peggy and the Doctor, together again!

[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

Did it smell like piss? That's what I remember from my trip on that train. That and the fact that something was leaking down on the lower level and got the bottoms of my boxes wet. Oh, and little kids trying to watch me draw titties in the lunch car.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

No, thankfully. Though the toilets weren't very pleasant. Mostly, it was just boring.