More Slice Of Life
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greenstormToday I had some house viewings, all within walking distance of Famous Foods. There were two of them, and the whole thing was actually quite funny.
The first was a very nice medium-sized one-bedroom suite in a house with two other suites, one of which contained the mother and the other of which contained the expecting couple/daughter. It was pretty, it had no storage really, there was green outside the front door, it was cared for.
The second was a two-bedroom, slumlord style- the landlord had lived in the house before, and was possibly just moving out, but it had lots of funny storage spaces, hideous linoleum, and was gigantic.
I spent some time walking around the area because the appointments were pretty close (maybe ten-fifteen blocks apart, and another ten blocks from where I live now) but not quite back-to-back timewise. I lived for a couple years another ten blocks south of there, when I was maybe seven, and I'm reminded just how much more at ease I feel in an asian neighborhood (with a spattering of italian) than I do in the super-white hippie-dyke-italian neighborhood of Commercial Drive. The food stores are more interesting and more useful. The gardens have people in them, people who use the garden, and who grow food which they then eat. Some of the houses are run-down, some are not, but the yards are generally tidy. The houses are often constructed according to the principles of good feng shui (you think I jest?). And... I don't know. I feel more relaxed there. I like that feeling.
The neighborhood is sorta-kinda transit friendly- well, very transit friendly if you're okay taking the bus or walking a couple of blocks to Nanaimo or Victoria or Main St stations, depending. More than that, though, it's *people*-friendly. It's not cliquey. It's just people, doing their thing. I wish I could describe the feeling better.
There's comfrey to steal in the backyards and they don't hire landscapers. Does that make sense? The outdoors is a normal part of life rather than something divorced from the kitchen with food maybe there because local foods are trendy or because growing plants is neat.
And totally unrelated, the girl I work with, who I have a huge crush on and have since day 1, has resolved a dilemma for me. I said to her, 'so what do you do for fun?' and she said, 'well, I went to the Pride Parade' first thing, despite the Pride Parade being quite some time ago. Now I don't have to figure out how to ask her if she likes girls, cause I think that was a pretty clear message. I can just put my nose down and flirt. :D
I think it's funny how difficult it is for me to approach girls at all, compared to my normal sledgehammer 'nice boots, wanna fuck' approach to boys. Then again, I'm both physically more attracted to girls and more ambivalent about the emotional/social training aspects of big-R relationships with them (and even somewhat about friendships, but I'm getting over that. Girls may be crazy, but not all *bad* crazy all the time).
The first was a very nice medium-sized one-bedroom suite in a house with two other suites, one of which contained the mother and the other of which contained the expecting couple/daughter. It was pretty, it had no storage really, there was green outside the front door, it was cared for.
The second was a two-bedroom, slumlord style- the landlord had lived in the house before, and was possibly just moving out, but it had lots of funny storage spaces, hideous linoleum, and was gigantic.
I spent some time walking around the area because the appointments were pretty close (maybe ten-fifteen blocks apart, and another ten blocks from where I live now) but not quite back-to-back timewise. I lived for a couple years another ten blocks south of there, when I was maybe seven, and I'm reminded just how much more at ease I feel in an asian neighborhood (with a spattering of italian) than I do in the super-white hippie-dyke-italian neighborhood of Commercial Drive. The food stores are more interesting and more useful. The gardens have people in them, people who use the garden, and who grow food which they then eat. Some of the houses are run-down, some are not, but the yards are generally tidy. The houses are often constructed according to the principles of good feng shui (you think I jest?). And... I don't know. I feel more relaxed there. I like that feeling.
The neighborhood is sorta-kinda transit friendly- well, very transit friendly if you're okay taking the bus or walking a couple of blocks to Nanaimo or Victoria or Main St stations, depending. More than that, though, it's *people*-friendly. It's not cliquey. It's just people, doing their thing. I wish I could describe the feeling better.
There's comfrey to steal in the backyards and they don't hire landscapers. Does that make sense? The outdoors is a normal part of life rather than something divorced from the kitchen with food maybe there because local foods are trendy or because growing plants is neat.
And totally unrelated, the girl I work with, who I have a huge crush on and have since day 1, has resolved a dilemma for me. I said to her, 'so what do you do for fun?' and she said, 'well, I went to the Pride Parade' first thing, despite the Pride Parade being quite some time ago. Now I don't have to figure out how to ask her if she likes girls, cause I think that was a pretty clear message. I can just put my nose down and flirt. :D
I think it's funny how difficult it is for me to approach girls at all, compared to my normal sledgehammer 'nice boots, wanna fuck' approach to boys. Then again, I'm both physically more attracted to girls and more ambivalent about the emotional/social training aspects of big-R relationships with them (and even somewhat about friendships, but I'm getting over that. Girls may be crazy, but not all *bad* crazy all the time).
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Date: 2007-09-10 03:38 am (UTC)That's where sewage flooded and was icky. I don't think it ever got cleaned properly. :|
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Date: 2007-09-10 03:40 am (UTC)Where did you ever end up, anyhow?
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Date: 2007-09-10 03:43 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-09-10 05:14 am (UTC)She is fun. :)
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Date: 2007-09-11 04:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-11 12:20 pm (UTC)You knew I was gonna bleep that out right? :> I wonder if this has to do with the general fact (though not true of every person of course) that sex is an expression of relationship thing for girls and an expression of physical desire thing for guys. Which is also why so many girls fall for the "if you love me, you'd" line with guys who don't care about them at all. To the average girl, sex means love. To the average guy, sex means satisfying a physical desire. Though, girls have been changing more towards the thinking of guys in the past decade or two, I think.