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Jul. 5th, 2006 10:57 pmI'm actually going to write about something that I thought about today.
On my way home I got passed by a car with a new York license plate, and a single word came to mind when I saw it. "Home" So if I still consider NY home after two years, even though I haven't been back since moving down here...when will that change? When will NC be considere home to me?
What is so different about this place that I just can't seem to belong here? There are things I share with everyone else...I mean I am closer to the horse country then before. I like NASCAR. I like the carolina panthers...but there are so many differences.
1. I don't smoke...yet 90% of this state does
2. I don't own, nor care to own a gun...yet probably 90% of this state does
3. I dont' support any sort of college team, nor care to. Duke, Wake Forest, whatever else there is..I really don't give a shit how they do in the course of the year and frankly, I couldn't tell you where any of them are.
4. A shopping cart is not and will never be a "buggy". Pepsi is pop, not soda. And a tobagon is something you ride down a snowy hill, not a hat.
5. I don't go to church at all...whereas the normal NC person goes about twice a week.
And there are more I'm sure. But it seems that after living here two years I would have some sort of connection.
Oh well, it doesn't matter I guess. Maybe if I had friends that I went out with or saw every few days here I would have made a connection. But as it stands, the only people I really know are the ones I work with, and I guess that is partially my fault. I work too much and I have no desire to go to clubs or whereever you are supposed to go to meet people. But by being down here, I am closer to my hollins crew and for that I am grateful. A few hours of a drive and I can see several of them. And thats all I really need I think.
Well thats it I guess...oh and in a completely unrelated note (or maybe nto really that unrelated), I have to work tomorrow. So much for my day off.
On my way home I got passed by a car with a new York license plate, and a single word came to mind when I saw it. "Home" So if I still consider NY home after two years, even though I haven't been back since moving down here...when will that change? When will NC be considere home to me?
What is so different about this place that I just can't seem to belong here? There are things I share with everyone else...I mean I am closer to the horse country then before. I like NASCAR. I like the carolina panthers...but there are so many differences.
1. I don't smoke...yet 90% of this state does
2. I don't own, nor care to own a gun...yet probably 90% of this state does
3. I dont' support any sort of college team, nor care to. Duke, Wake Forest, whatever else there is..I really don't give a shit how they do in the course of the year and frankly, I couldn't tell you where any of them are.
4. A shopping cart is not and will never be a "buggy". Pepsi is pop, not soda. And a tobagon is something you ride down a snowy hill, not a hat.
5. I don't go to church at all...whereas the normal NC person goes about twice a week.
And there are more I'm sure. But it seems that after living here two years I would have some sort of connection.
Oh well, it doesn't matter I guess. Maybe if I had friends that I went out with or saw every few days here I would have made a connection. But as it stands, the only people I really know are the ones I work with, and I guess that is partially my fault. I work too much and I have no desire to go to clubs or whereever you are supposed to go to meet people. But by being down here, I am closer to my hollins crew and for that I am grateful. A few hours of a drive and I can see several of them. And thats all I really need I think.
Well thats it I guess...oh and in a completely unrelated note (or maybe nto really that unrelated), I have to work tomorrow. So much for my day off.
