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Announcement [Apr. 1st, 2008|10:23 am]
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I've been talking about "the war against stuff" and getting rid of things while readying a move lately. This "move" might not be what people expect -- I'm not going to Chicago after graduation.

I'm moving to Houston, Texas.

I'm sick of winters, I'm sick of humidity, I'm sick of people who are genuinely nice but can't drive for crap. I just want to walk around in shorts all year, never worry about salt rust on my car, and do some business lawyering for oil moguls. Screw this "public service" crap -- I wanna make money.


APRIL FOOLS!
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[User Picture]From: [info]hex61
2008-04-01 03:32 pm (UTC)

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We can introduce you to some friends in Houston. No really. You should go. Screw those midwestern self serving bastards! And their basket-ball and foot-ball nonsense.

You'd like Austin better. Snicker.
[User Picture]From: [info]eevilyounggirl
2008-04-01 03:40 pm (UTC)

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Yeah, see, not all of Texas is bad. So I hear (I've never been). I just heard that, of the three big TX cities, Houston is the lamest and Austin is pretty darn rad.
[User Picture]From: [info]hex61
2008-04-01 03:57 pm (UTC)

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Heh. Of the three big cities... You mean Houston, Dallas, San Antonio?

Austin is a distant 4th, and probably is well overtaken by El Paso if you count the illegals there.

:)
[User Picture]From: [info]happyelfling
2008-04-01 04:10 pm (UTC)

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Yeah, that's pretty much the way of it. From my 1 day in Houston I feel I can make the definitive judgment that Houston sucks. I really like Austin though.

The best part of your post was about being sick of people who can't drive for crap, because Houston (according to a friend of mine who comes from there) has the absolute worst highway design in the country, promoting the most congestion and confusion. Like, it's won awards for this.
[User Picture]From: [info]laustinthought
2008-04-01 04:17 pm (UTC)

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I really like Austin too! (Hell, you can't beat the name...) I might have even added it to my [virtually non-existent] list of places I'd consider moving to if it wasn't surrounded by so much suck.
[User Picture]From: [info]pathogen
2008-04-01 03:35 pm (UTC)

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Happy Bastille Day!
[User Picture]From: [info]flamesrising
2008-04-01 03:36 pm (UTC)

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Nice...

I'm actually thinking of moving to Atlanta or Vegas.
[User Picture]From: [info]maehymn
2008-04-01 03:45 pm (UTC)

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nice.
you almost made me cry.
[User Picture]From: [info]daki
2008-04-01 03:48 pm (UTC)

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Damnit, you got me.

Was about to say, "Sick of humidity? Wait until you see Houston in summer".
[User Picture]From: [info]gleipnir23
2008-04-01 04:04 pm (UTC)

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bwahahahaha good one
From: [info]thattoon
2008-04-01 04:10 pm (UTC)

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The biggest thing I learned when I visited Texas was that, no matter how comfortable and perfectly sized for a two-year-old ass the mounds of red dirt in the parks may look, it's a very bad idea to sit on them.
[User Picture]From: [info]thosquanta
2008-04-01 04:11 pm (UTC)

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awww...i actually work for the evil health care industry.

we could have been, like, capitalismpals.
[User Picture]From: [info]cjfringe
2008-04-01 04:14 pm (UTC)

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Of course, my first thought when reading this was, 'great timing, *again*. Tara finishes her project in Houston right around when you graduate.'
So when is the move?
[User Picture]From: [info]djwhiterabbit
2008-04-01 04:39 pm (UTC)

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嘘つき!
[User Picture]From: [info]manufracture
2008-04-01 04:45 pm (UTC)

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heh, apparently some people can't read a marquee tag....

in all seriousness, i'm considering my own "war on stuff". because i have a lot. of stuff. that i rarely use. gonna look for a friend to coach me in the ways of Craigslist and eBay, since i've never put anything up for sale before....
[User Picture]From: [info]hadjare
2008-04-01 04:54 pm (UTC)

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I believed you up until the oil mongul part and then I was like...hey wait a second...
[User Picture]From: [info]djtatsu
2008-04-01 05:00 pm (UTC)

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Hah I almost fell for it :)
[User Picture]From: [info]tricstmr
2008-04-01 05:03 pm (UTC)

Yeah...

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... I almost had to get medieval on your ass...

nice one.
[User Picture]From: [info]whimsicalfool
2008-04-01 05:17 pm (UTC)

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I got the April Fools' thing, because ain't nobody moving to Houston to get away from humidity. Shit.
[User Picture]From: [info]djafet
2008-04-01 05:31 pm (UTC)

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Hehe...but yeah, I DID almost start crying :/
[User Picture]From: [info]dredpiratebunny
2008-04-01 06:08 pm (UTC)

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embrace your corporate whoredom!
(and leave me the keys to your chicago apt just in case....)


har har!
[User Picture]From: [info]wildcard9
2008-04-01 06:51 pm (UTC)

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And here I was about to talk you out of moving the swampland of Houstan and going to Austin instead. It is a much better city with a sufficiantly high weird quotiant to be a fun place to live (if you can stand summers that are over 100 degree days for three months straight).

And now I don't have to rant about what this would do to the Gothsicles.

By the way, wanting to make money is not a bad thing, and lets you do a lot of fun things that others can participate in as well.
[User Picture]From: [info]eevilyounggirl
2008-04-01 07:17 pm (UTC)

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I know there's nothing wrong with making money. It's just a turn for me, since I have said for a long time that being a civil servant means more to me than making big bux. :)
[User Picture]From: [info]zadyrankin
2008-04-01 07:03 pm (UTC)

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oh thats awesome
[User Picture]From: [info]zapevaj
2008-04-02 04:43 am (UTC)

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So, Miss "You can't believe I'm becoming a lawyer for Big Oil, I am far too saintly!"- when are you gracing our fair shores?
[User Picture]From: [info]pendragon93
2008-04-02 08:38 am (UTC)

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I was going to say, "There's money in texas?"

;)
[User Picture]From: [info]amaranthyne
2008-04-03 07:19 am (UTC)

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I was running errands/seeing the boy all day tuesday and forgot to check the internets.

and you STILL got me

you win!