From: owner-eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org (eda-thoughts-digest) To: eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org Subject: eda-thoughts-digest V3 #114 Reply-To: eda-thoughts@smoe.org Sender: owner-eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk eda-thoughts-digest Tuesday, April 4 2000 Volume 03 : Number 114 * If you ever wish to unsubscribe, send an email to * eda-thoughts-digest-request@smoe.org with ONLY * the word unsubscribe in the body of the email * . * PLEASE :) when you reply to this digest to send a post TO the list, * change the subject to reflect what your post is about. A subject * of Re: eda-thoughts-digest V3 #xxx or the like gives readers no clue * as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- ET: beach babe to the core... [RJonthego@aol.com] ET: Re: questions [Mango Ara ] ET: St. Louis Missouri [JonBoy911@aol.com] ET: hometown [Katherine Alexandra ] Re: ET: Re: questions [Summer Burton ] ET: answered questions...and a new couple. ["Maggie, the 17th Squid" ] Re: ET: answered questions...and a new couple. ["~* cymbaline *~" Subject: ET: Re: questions kat, you're brilliant. i agree with each thing you said. sounds good to me... soo. where i live isn't all that fascinating, though i'm finding if i look closer, it has its moments. i live in a little city in riverside county, california...well, i say little, but it has over 160,000 people in it. i was born in santa ana and spent the first 5 years of my life in irvine, CA. irvine is snob central, but absolutely lovely. setting aside the people, it has beautiful manicured landscapes, and on breezy days the air smells like salt from the nearby ocean. however, i don't live there anymore. i've lived here for 10 years, going on 11. it's basically a nice place to sleep, but there isn't a whole lot to do. lots of track housing, trimmed lawns. my neighbors don't really know each other, seeing as most stay in their houses as soon as they get home. you have to drive at least 15 minutes to do anything worthwhile. but setting aside the negative, it's a pretty place. lots of young-ish trees, and a mere bit of rain turns all the hills green. i suppose you could say i live in a valley. before they started building alllll over the hills, they would be covered in wildflowers every time it rained. which, let me say, it doesn't rain very often. my mother planted a beautiful garden, it's her joy to work in it. we have roses, wildflowers, 2 fruit trees and several other trees that are working on being shady, including 2 lovely white birches. the summertime heat brings out rich sweet perfumes from flowers like star jasmine and gardenias. it's only april, and it's over 90 degrees. in the summer, the weather is hot, hot, hot, though we have weeks of "weather" called santa ana winds, which are quite strong and are either refreshing, or incredibly drying. what other sights, smells, etc. are around here? i live a block or so up from one of the busiest streets, and about 1.25 mile from the freeway, so there is often a distant hum that i don't really hear anymore. i don't live very far from an airforce base, so planes and helicopters drone almost rhythmically and lulling, except when they rumble, and i often mistake the rumbling for the beginning of an earthquake. a few streets up, behind some houses, is a pretty large hill. if you hop some fences you can climb up it. it's an interesting mix of hills and valleys here. there are a lot of shopping centers in wal*mart-style. downtown where i live isn't that interesting, though i hear they are working on it...there are a few coffee shops, book stores, etc., but they're rather spread out. downtown riverside has a walking mall, a mission inn and a good library, and often i go walk around with some friends. i like watching the people and talking to them. that's about all, i guess. ~samara - -- Diva-to-be My fingers catch the sparks At the thought of them touching you ~third eye blind~ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 01:17:12 EDT From: JonBoy911@aol.com Subject: ET: St. Louis Missouri I live in Bridgeton, Missouri(or I live in the state of Misery, depending who you ask). It's a suburb of St. Louis. I actually go to school in St. Louis, and my girlfriend lives in the city, so I spend most of my time away from the suburb. Sounds....At night if you listen closely you can hear the frieght train, the highway, and a little more obvious, airplanes. The airport is currently buying out all of Bridgeton in order to build a new, over-budget, and unsafe runway. This is very sad because I have lived all my life here. In 5 years my childhood neihborhood won't exist. The city of Bridgeton is actually older than the city of St. Louis, but no one seems to notice. Now St. Louis, we have all kinds of music clubs, jazz, blues, folk, country, hip-hop, new wave, you name it, we got a club for you. And who can forget the St. Louis Rams and their super bowl championship? Or the first in the NHL Blues, along with the soon to be NL Central champion St. Louis Cardinals? We are a very big sports town. When I think of St. Louis tastes, well we have thin crust pizza(our invention), our pizza HAS to have provolone cheese. And toasted ravioli(our invention), which is a delicacy to any St. Louisian, that people attempted to introduce to other parts of the country, but everyone else thinks it's just plain weird. I think it's tasty. :) I also love the taste of Fitz's Root Beer, a St. Louis company. Most would say AB, but being straight edge I don't drink alcohol. I leave for college in the fall heading for Santa Fe, New Mexico. Going from Italian food to Mexican. The nearest airport is 2-3 hours away. It has mountains, which is interesting for a boy from the great plains. The dirt is even a different color. And most noticable, no professional sports teams. :) I'm ready to get away from Missouri for awhile, but it will always be a part of me. When I'm rich I'll definitely have a loft in St. Louis. This is my hometown..... Namaste, Jon Hamilton << > where do you live? what is it like? what are the > smells, sounds, events...what makes your place > different from mine?? i know this is a dumb question, > but at the same time, it's an awareness of where you > are...which all of us should have. also, where are you > originally from? where do you consider your hometown > (if you consier any place it) where would you like to > be??? alright...please someone help me out here *lol* >> ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 20:33:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Katherine Alexandra Subject: ET: hometown kara: you are one awesome bitch. have i responded to your email? i always forget who's "turn" it is. i dont wanna lose track of you (i want to know all about that transatlantic journey, GO ON THE PADDYWAGON, i promise you, it's the best). naomi: as always you are so cute and the best. thank you so much for backing me up on this :) kelly: thank you my dear as well :) us "floridians" gotta stick together, eh? SOMEONE ELSE THINK OF A NEW QUESTION (pretty please!) my hometown...right now i live in a small florida redneck town. it's in the southwest of florida and mostly populated with either hicks or old people. half the year the population dramaticly increases with snowbirds. i've been here for almost 5 years now, i moved here my freshmen year of high school from europe. i thought i would absolutely hate it here, but it's the sort of small town that has a lot of offer, except only in silance. in high school i spent most of my time out on the farms with my friends at tailgate parties. and i have gone out hog farming and mudding, it was a lot of fun actualy. the thing is, the culture here really is dying...people dont' really care that much and there is a lack of community. i spend a great deal of my time at denny's talking to the people here, the real floridians that have seen the increase of growth, you can just see the change on a daily basis though. there is this generic part of my town, it could be anywhere, with the mall, the wal-mart, the grocery store, the target, the oversized pseudo bookstore, with one large street spawning the suburban mess. sometimes i have to go down there, for fun(bc this town is so small and cow tipping can only last for so long), we go to wal-mart, it's open 24 hrs here and with a grocery store. we just walk around and make fun of consumerism and laugh at the guns. it's a pretty sad life, although, i could honestly say, i'm really glad that my last 5 years have been spent here. its just time to go. i'm originaly from the rockies, this small town that was right in the mountains in colorado. that's probably what i will always consider home, but at the same time, every place i have been has been home for me. and i have taken pieces of each place, and left a resedu of who i once was in each place. it's funny how similar and yet how different towns are from each other. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 14:47:03 -0700 From: Summer Burton Subject: Re: ET: Re: questions I live in Austin, Texas. I was born in Hope, Arkansas and have lived other places, Austin is my home. Austin has 1 million people, but it doesn't seem that crowded or big city like because it is all spread out. Most of the people, especially the people who haven't lived here very long, live in the outskirts -- suburbs with names like "Pflugerville". My old best friend lives there. But central and south Austin is fabulous -- green, spread out, full of cool stores, and brimming with activity and music. We live just south of the big body of water in the middle of town -- 10 minutes from downtown in a car, about 15 from the University of Texas campus. My house is nice -- not as expensive as it looks, spacious, with lots of windows. We have a huge front yard and no backyard, and our front yard has a wooden playscape and a huge live oak tree, easy to climb. There are squirrels and bird chattering always, screech owls at night, and dogs running around and barking everywhere in our neighborhood. The neighborhood is hugely diverse -- everything from HUGE, super-expensive houses with perfect views of the Austin skyline to little duplexes and shacks. There is a Baptist church a few blocks away, nestled in between some apartment buildings. There are lots of democrats, hippies, families, and musicians. Almost everyone in the neighborhood freuquents two close-by places -- City Market and Flipnotic's Coffee Space. City Market is the grocery store and I've seen so many people from my neighborhood there. Everyone knows the cashiers and the specials, and everyone shops there. It's filled with memories for me -- of running wild with my friends, cashier-crushes, and photos snapped in the aisles. Flipnotic's is one of my favorite places in the world -- it's a spacey themed coffee shop, full of regulars and cute little tables. I know the cashiers, they know what I get and how I want it, and they call me by name. My brother's old best friends all go there, and my parents love it as much as I do. Dogs run around the outside, cute boys read papers and couples drink frappes. It's yummy and it smells fabulous and all the guys that work there are hot. My neighborhood is situated just above Zilker Park, which is filled with dogs and joggers and kids on weekends. There's also the hike n bike trail, always crowded with all kinds of bikers and walkers. My friends know these blocks of town like they know their own neighborhoods -- we play soccer in the park, drink coffee at Flips, have drama rehearsal at the theater a couple blocks away, and eat lunch at the Schlotsky's two doors down from that. The street below my neighborhood is crowded with resteraunts, and it smells like tex-mex and italian at night. Music drifts up to our neighborhood on occasion, as someone is always always always playing music in Austin. I mean that -- Austin is truly filled with musicians on every street corner and venue on every night. Downtown and campus are both favorite places. Campus is crowded with "drag rats" -- cool colorful homeless kids who sell CDs, raise dogs, and ask for money -- and with college kids. There are huge megastores, coffeeshops, college buildings, and the best music venue in town, Cactus Cafe. Downtown is where I work and it is grey, depressing, endlessly interesting, and yummy. Leslie, a drag queen who is running for mayor, parades around sixth street in thongs. I get strawberry smoothie at Jamba Juice and walk around downtown, taking in the variety of people and sounds. I love my city. I really do. - -Summer ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 18:24:37 CDT From: "Maggie, the 17th Squid" Subject: ET: answered questions...and a new couple. (not to strike a chord)Is kissing cheating on your boyfriend/girlfriend/whatever? Who's your favorite poet/author? My personal fav is EE Cummings...he's so...decipherable...to me, anyway...I find I'm either entranced or thinking way too hard after I read his works..... - ----Original Message Follows---- >>(stop laughing, this is a brilliant >>idea! **please someone back me up! *LOL**) ...Agreed....WELL brilliant. *L* ~~>>~where do you live? what is it like? what are the smells, sounds, events...what makes your place different from mine?? also, where are you originally from? where do you consider your hometown (if you consier any place it) where would you like to be??? ~<<~~ I live in beautiful Astoria, Oregon, a town/city of approx. 10,000 people--HUGE to me...It's a city of hills and the river and the bay and the ocean and thousands of shades of greens and old SanFran-rific houses...You can see the Saddleback Mts from the parking lot of my high school...The grey rain envelopes the trees and buildings and the sun, making everything seem grey, but not gloomy or depressing (to me), and brings the greenness back again and again...the bay is green on sunny days and the clouds are tinged green (reflections) and the moss on the rocks is green...{whoa, talk about run-on sentances!}...It smells like river or sun...You know, the smell of warm sun baking the pavement and sunburning bodies and warming the water...I go to play practice as the sun sets, so the colours of the sunset scream beauty to my peace...The water balances me, I calm down drastically just glancing at it...so repetitive...and stable... I must be going, though I haven't aswered your question fully yet...*grin* Maggie....No Angel. (I love how I change day-by-day...ah, individuality, a chosen way of life) >>kat imperfection angel ...Just a side note: I got in a fight with one of my "friends" (person I barely tolerate, we're in a play together, he has a car) last night about perfection...*sigh* ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 20:04:27 -0400 (EDT) From: courtney gordon Subject: ET: creativebabble Dear Angels, well tomorrow after school I'm off to give myself 597 heart attacks over the course of 3 hours. Er...I mean, I'm going to see Creed, Sevendust and Seven Doors Down tomorrow in Saginaw. So, just like the eve 6 concert, I'll probably post about it, with a good 3/4 of it along the lines of "Omigodomigodomigod" so consider yourselves warned. :) I'll be going now Angels... Courtney The beautiful disaster angel with more green and herbal tea laced with Ginseng in her body than can possibly be healthy for one human being. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 00:06:06 GMT From: "~* cymbaline *~" Subject: Re: ET: answered questions...and a new couple. >(not to strike a chord)Is kissing cheating on your >boyfriend/girlfriend/whatever? Hmm.... it *depends*. If you feel alot of guilt afterwards, yes. If the boyfriend/girlfriend treats you like crap, and you'd probably dump them anyway... then I'd say no. I don't know.. I'm just talking, lol >Who's your favorite poet/author? I have a few. Poets: Pablo Neruda j r sherman (my friend, not known by the world, lol. He's an outstanding poet though) Bukowsky Yeats Author: Camus Nabokov Peace, Kelly ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of eda-thoughts-digest V3 #114 **********************************