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wickedfleaWell, I got back in town on Friday. I sort of wanted to stay longer, but I was busted and needed to get home and get my paycheck in the bank. It's nice having the weekend to get settled in and stuff anyway.
I have completely forgotten about school this week. I usually don't do anything schoolwise during breaks, but I at least worry about upcoming papers and stuff; not this time. That was cool to be able to do, though naturally I'll soon find myself wishing I'd done a bunch of research this week.
Virginia always puts me in a weird mood. The area I visit, where my Mom's house is and where I lived for a couple of years, is in southwest Virginia, right next to West Virginia. I've never been to other parts of the state, but I gather that they're quite different. SW Va. is STRANGE. Beautiful country, but the people are fucked. I've lived most of my life in Mississippi and have seen more than my fair share of hideous rednecks here, but they don't compare with the ones up there. Here in MS, our rednecks are generally pretty easy-going. The VA ones, however, are angrier, more aggressively self-protective. I see a lot more Confederate flags and that kind of shit up there. Oh, hell -- I'll never be able to explain the difference -- the horror I feel when I watch the people up there is probably mostly due to the fact that, while I don't agree with a lot of shit that happens in MS, at least I understand most of it in some way. I have no idea what's happening at all in VA.
Here's an example of that "aggressively self-protective" thing I was talking about. You see this all over the place up there -- "No Trespassing" signs in front of these piles of shit that no one would ever want to venture near.
But anyway.
I have completely forgotten about school this week. I usually don't do anything schoolwise during breaks, but I at least worry about upcoming papers and stuff; not this time. That was cool to be able to do, though naturally I'll soon find myself wishing I'd done a bunch of research this week.
Virginia always puts me in a weird mood. The area I visit, where my Mom's house is and where I lived for a couple of years, is in southwest Virginia, right next to West Virginia. I've never been to other parts of the state, but I gather that they're quite different. SW Va. is STRANGE. Beautiful country, but the people are fucked. I've lived most of my life in Mississippi and have seen more than my fair share of hideous rednecks here, but they don't compare with the ones up there. Here in MS, our rednecks are generally pretty easy-going. The VA ones, however, are angrier, more aggressively self-protective. I see a lot more Confederate flags and that kind of shit up there. Oh, hell -- I'll never be able to explain the difference -- the horror I feel when I watch the people up there is probably mostly due to the fact that, while I don't agree with a lot of shit that happens in MS, at least I understand most of it in some way. I have no idea what's happening at all in VA.
Here's an example of that "aggressively self-protective" thing I was talking about. You see this all over the place up there -- "No Trespassing" signs in front of these piles of shit that no one would ever want to venture near.
But anyway.
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