just a small town girl

[coyotesuspect]

I'd kind of forgotten how much I hated living someplace where the most exciting thing to do is hang out in the K-Mart the next town over. Also, the only movie rental place around went out of business, and the internet here isn't even fast enough for Hulu, so my desire to see Generation Kill/Star Trek TOS/Dogma/1776 remains thwarted.

*wills parents to get NetFlix*


I guess to give people an idea of the town I went to high school in, and where my family still lives: You know all those small towns Sam and Dean visit in season 1 and 2? And you're always thinking, "This America isn't even real! Why the hell have there been only two black people in this entire show? Does everyone really carry a gun?" And there are creepy dark pine trees and depressed goth girls skirting around the edges of everything? That's here. Maybe I'll steal my sister's camera one of these days and go snap a picture of the house where the road turns off into the woods with the Confederate flag and the noose in the front yard.  

Living condition-wise, since the house is too small for everyone to have their own room, and my older brother already sleeps in the garage, I've been sleeping on a mattress on the floor of my little sister's room and living out of my suitcase. But despite all this (and all the passive aggressive bitching I do to familiar) I'm happy? I did really miss my family. And damn, but the stars out here are beautiful. 

Also! I got my driver's handbook! So presumably I am going to learn how to drive! oh god what if I kill someone

I've killed two black widows* in the past week. A third one has taken up residency in the fusebox, and I await my day to kill it. The battle between girl and poisonous arachnid continues.
 
In other news, soccer RPF has taken over my brain. I've written like 4000 words of porn even. And I hate writing porn. ALL FOR U, familiardevil , ALL FOR U.

My head hurts. Have some memes wut I stole from cantarina1  and unavoidedcrisis :

I know very little about some of the people on my friends list. Some people I know relatively well. But here's a thought: why not take this opportunity to tell me a little something about yourself. Any old thing at all. Just so the next time I see your name I can say: "Ah, there's so and so...she likes office supplies." 

and:

Post a link to whatever fanworks you're most proud of! I don't care what your medium is: podfic, art, graphics, meta, fic, poetry, mixes; if you're particularly proud of it, I want to see it in the comments. Throw in a link to something you've always wished had gotten more attention and I'll wander over to have a visit. If you think I've already seen it but it really is your favourite, post it anyway. I'll leave more feedback if I haven't already left much and it gives everyone else a chance to be exposed to these fantastic things they may have missed.

*I originally forgot to put the very important modifier "black" here. So it read "I've killed two widows in the past week." Yeeeeah.

ETA: Oh, and the point of this post: I haven't been getting lj notifications! And since I only use my e-mail for lj notifications, I haven't really been checking it! Also, aim signs me on automatically on the family computer (despite my unclicking the "sign in automatically" box), so, uh, be careful lest you end up talking to my dad or little brother or cousins? Believe it or not, I have been even worse about keeping in touch with real life friends. I don't even remember the last time I logged in on facebook. /o\

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[locknkey.livejournal.com]

I did not think anyone in Cali lived in a place more country than me - you are in Cali, Y/Y? If not, I blame the graying gray matter. I'm old - get off my grass, you dumbass kids!

So the thing about me, since you brought up desolate little burgs...I literally stop for chickens while taking my son to school and it's always fun for us to see if the ponies are wearing their blankets in the morning. On the main street I've witnessed - mind you in fenced yards, but still - goats mating and peacocks strutting. The NRA calls my house weekly - it's the demographic and the Bush/Palin signs painted a lovely blue and red field around the neighborhood during election season. And - drum roll please - if you stop by on a Saturday the local hot dog, sandwich stand plays host to a semi-trailer bed bedecked in the glory of the confederate south.

My favorite thing by me, hmmmm... this is hard and unfair to make you look at the end of the world, long ass fic with unicorns and musical numbers so....truthfully this is my favorite thing - part of a bonded Sam/Dean story, Sam is 12, but this is very PG-13.

http://loolookitty.livejournal.com/28528.html

please to be coming and killing my black widows - many of them and they will challenge the great widow slayer with their soul sucking black carapaces and snicking pincers

[coyotesuspect.livejournal.com]

I am in Cali! Up in the foothills around the Sierra Nevadas. I'm assuming your inland Cali too, if you've got the same political demographics. I remember stealing a Prop 8 sign that was out in front of my little brother and sister's school, and "improving it" by adding a skirt to the husband and taping a big "NO" over the yes. Then I carried it around school the next day. o:)

No chickens that I've seen! But a girl I tutored in math kept goats, and I know several people who raise llamas, of all things.

Thanks for the link! :D I will be sure to check it out.

I would be happy too. Let me just find my Trusty Rock of Big Crushing.

[locknkey.livejournal.com]

I'm assuming your inland Cali too The valley - literally I can be inside the Capital Building in 15 minutes if it's not rush hour. SO it's very surreal, like it's own little pocket universe. IDEK? :)

[coyotesuspect.livejournal.com]

Oooh the Valley. D: At least I have trees. That does sound surreal. But at least you're near a city! So there's stuff to do. :D Fifteen minutes just gets me...pretty close to K Mart. ):

[locknkey.livejournal.com]

Fun fact: Sacramento is "City of the Trees" And when I disbelievingly searched this, apparently they have more trees than any other urban area. I really want to know how that was determined??

Yes, I'm very lucky in the 'to do' except it's so damn hot, you don't want to leave the damn house! (it's not the Bay Area, but you don't ahve to be bored.) :)

[write-light.livejournal.com]

Not to freak either of you out, but I am in the same area. Between a city named for a flower and one named for a type of fruit.

[locknkey.livejournal.com]

Yeah! - although I can not figure out your clue at all. :)

[write-light.livejournal.com]

LOL
Rose? Does that help?

[coyotesuspect.livejournal.com]

plays host to a semi-trailer bed bedecked in the glory of the confederate south.

Also, this is so absurdly NorCal that I have to believe it. I have many memories of pick up trucks with Confederate flag license plate holders stopping to let me cross the street to school. *facepalms*

I'm assuming you have a lot of "libertarians" too? Ron Paul signs are always in season, dontchya know!

[locknkey.livejournal.com]

I can't beleive the kitsch this guy show up with. If I was a collector I could even have some nice rims to round out my collection, after I purchased the requisite beach towel, blanket and flag. I keep meaning to take pics and do a little post.

We also have a biker bar (and many riders around town - natch) and it's not unusual to see the full on cowboy riding horses - I seriously feel like I'm on a movie set some days.

No Libertarians that I've noticed, but I wouldn't be surprised. :)