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In pigtails and hoodie, I am still just a college kid. At least they don't think I'm 16 anymore...
I am home. And I really ought to write things about trains and visiting people (wow, there are people!) and the doll con and Great American Scenery (3 styles of mountain, foggy be-flowered San Francisco, vast expanses of prairie/desert and cropfield, salt flats, and of course today my beloved eastern woodland) with pictures, oh so FAR TOO MANY pictures (er, I filled up my 1 gb memory card for the first time and shifted over to the other one before the second time through the Rockies...)
Possibly (she says, having abandoned the preceding paragraph to let it crash and burn on its own) I shall still write about these things. We shall have to wait and see. In the mean time, I greatly recommend the train as a sight-seeing experience for those who wish to sit by a window and watch the entire country go by, and are not particularly constrained in terms of time. For those who wish to get promptly from point A to point B, (or smoke cigarettes every hour along the way) I recommend the air plane or the bypass, that you may not spend your entire journey irritating the former sort of person by griping about being delayed by hours when the freight dispatchers unaccountably fail to follow the rules and give passenger trains the right of way on their tracks.
On a totally unrelated note, I may have to explore this establishment:
Art With Flowers
1750 International Drive
Mclean VA 22102
703.903.6837
in a quest to find out what this stuff actually smells like. And the dandelion one, too.
Not that I wear scents (although I occasionally drool over the descriptions in the BAPL pages) since I'm relatively smell sensitive, and it's far easier not to smell like anything but me so I don't run the risk of giving myself a headache from it. But what I want... I want scents that smell (to my nose!) like pine pollen in the rockies, the wind before a thunderstorm, like hazelnut & jasmine teas, like clean sheets on a summer evening with the windows open (clean sheets to me smell like cotton and Tide)... It's all very metaphysical, really. The scents I've met that attempted things like this tended to smell mostly like soap, or other odd substances.
Oh, and the Spore Creature Creator? I am bitterly disappointed that I'd need to update my OS to play with it. (ok, and that they won't tell me how much it costs...) But it was terribly cool to play with-- I spammed the world with a small handful of worms and three or four interesting creatures from someone else's account.
Possibly (she says, having abandoned the preceding paragraph to let it crash and burn on its own) I shall still write about these things. We shall have to wait and see. In the mean time, I greatly recommend the train as a sight-seeing experience for those who wish to sit by a window and watch the entire country go by, and are not particularly constrained in terms of time. For those who wish to get promptly from point A to point B, (or smoke cigarettes every hour along the way) I recommend the air plane or the bypass, that you may not spend your entire journey irritating the former sort of person by griping about being delayed by hours when the freight dispatchers unaccountably fail to follow the rules and give passenger trains the right of way on their tracks.
On a totally unrelated note, I may have to explore this establishment:
Art With Flowers
1750 International Drive
Mclean VA 22102
703.903.6837
in a quest to find out what this stuff actually smells like. And the dandelion one, too.
Not that I wear scents (although I occasionally drool over the descriptions in the BAPL pages) since I'm relatively smell sensitive, and it's far easier not to smell like anything but me so I don't run the risk of giving myself a headache from it. But what I want... I want scents that smell (to my nose!) like pine pollen in the rockies, the wind before a thunderstorm, like hazelnut & jasmine teas, like clean sheets on a summer evening with the windows open (clean sheets to me smell like cotton and Tide)... It's all very metaphysical, really. The scents I've met that attempted things like this tended to smell mostly like soap, or other odd substances.
Oh, and the Spore Creature Creator? I am bitterly disappointed that I'd need to update my OS to play with it. (ok, and that they won't tell me how much it costs...) But it was terribly cool to play with-- I spammed the world with a small handful of worms and three or four interesting creatures from someone else's account.
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I'm not a particular fan of citrus or spicy, but I like some of the blander vanillas and nut flavors.
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I, too, cannot wear scent of any kind. Instant headache and this nagging inability to breathe. ;) Sometimes I dab it on my ankles so I can be reminded of scent without actually being immersed in it...
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I have about two or three scents I can occasionally stand to wear, but even so I'm hugely conscious of it when my hands smell like anything, even odd soaps and things like that. Ankles are a good idea, though-- I might have to try that sometime.
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Looking forward to tales and pictures of your adventure.
There is a possible pen & ink gathering in the works (probably much later) interest yesno?
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...am not wholely sure what you mean by pen & ink gathering. But it sounds potentially intriguing... Let me know? Oh, and I've got this cookie tin to give back to you, now that you've moved.
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