Location and Hygiene and HBO has Good TV: Minimal Daily Post

[sisabet]

Constant access to readily hot water is truly one of the best things about living in a post-industrialized world, cause no matter how cool she may be, I am no Starbuck.

::is *so* clean that she squeaks::

Speaking of post-industrial: I have lived at my apartment for over 9 months without noticing that a manufacturing plant is completely visible from my back door. I think it is the Jif plant over on Winchester, but I don't know for sure.

Its presence makes me feel happy in a way only people who also grew up in almost total agrarian societies can imagine. I can see Downtown and big buildings, I can see a factory - I live on Sesame Street.

Well - not quite - but right where I live is almost at a dividing line: There are warehouses at my back and and elementary school and the fringes of a historical district at my front. My worldview on a daily basis is shaped by which exit I take to leave my house.


I find this entirely stimulating.

In other news, I have found that more than 2 episodes of Carnivale on a work day is just too much for my brain to handle. As it is, I was so unable to figure out what was going on with the Russian kids in "The River" until they smacked me over the head with it (literally!) and I ended up getting caught up in the soap elements of "Lonnigan, Texas" and totally missed any significance other than the Lodge stuff. And Brother Justin. Who I love and just got hot in a really bad-wrong way.

Day-Am.

*Finally* saw Deadwood "Requiem for a Gleet" (ouch!) and will now trawl back in my Flist looking for discussion. If I am unable to locate any discussion, I will start one here and participation will be manditory.

::looks sternly over glasses::

Comments

[piper47.livejournal.com]

Ya know, after reading all the comments about cold showers on your other post, I was thinking that *I* should probably take a cold shower sometime. Help me hair a little and close up my pores and what not.

Totally a bad idea. I was taking a really hot shower, then before I got out, I turned it to cold and nearly fell out of the shower.

I'm not going to do that again. Ever.

[renenet.livejournal.com]

Your post has me reminscing about the location of my friend Emily's house where I lived for several years. From the backyard you could look across to part of the local college's tiny golf course and, past that, to a paper company plant and an automobile parts manufacturing company where I temped as the office manager in the sales and engineering department for about half of a summer during grad school. ::is nostalgic for their movable electronic wall filing system for part specifications:: That was a great commute to work. It was only about a block away, but most of the time I was running so late and wearing such girly shoes that I drove. I've never had so little time to goof off on the job. I would have started cutting myself if I'd had to work there permanently. I doubt the replacement temp I "trained" before I left lasted a week. They got a decorated sheet cake for my last day. Good times.

[wrenlet.livejournal.com]

If I am unable to locate any discussion, I will start one here and participation will be manditory.

You should totally start one. *crosses legs* OUCHIEOUCHIE!