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 Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 9:53 am
Western has a bizarre collection of staircases that probably have no purpose. Except to annoy the students.
I want to visit Canada at some point; it is really odd that I was living so close to Detroit for most of my life and only have been their once, when I was really young.
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Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 9:55 am
I got lost in the scary part of Detroit last October. That was grand fun.
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Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 9:56 am
TheShrike Living up north doesn't seem so bad to me. Michigan has pretty winters, compared to Kansas. That state has some character. Kansas is just... flat. Pretty... and crazy!! Honestly, I probably wouldn't want to really live in any other state in this country besides Michigan. What other state can brag that they have a song about a giant boat that sunk in its lake because of 'The gales of November come early'?
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Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 9:58 am
TheShrike I got lost in the scary part of Detroit last October. That was grand fun. Ha. Detroit's roads are insane. Metro Detroit has miles set in squares, but Detroit has the fancy fancy French circle things. I love the cities.
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Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 10:00 am
I've visited Michigan twice now, and I love it. It was really awesome driving up there during the fall-- puuuurdy trees. I need to venture further east, though... I've seen most of the midwest now, and my curiosity about "t3h world" has yet to be satiated.
The idea of getting in my car and being somewhere completely new within hours? It makes life worthwhile.
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Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 10:01 am
:insert major pouting action:
I looked up Vivienne Westwood on ebay, and am now regretting it. I am very sad that I cannot buy her stuff. She is the only 'designer' that I actually like.
It is also kinda weird how much Vivienne Westwood appears in the series Nana. Almost everything some of the characters wear is Vivienne Westwood.
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Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 10:01 am
Nafariously_Ploted TheShrike Metro Detroit has miles set in squares YES. What the crap is up with that?! And why can't I turn where I need to?!
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Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 10:03 am
TheShrike I've visited Michigan twice now, and I love it. It was really awesome driving up there during the fall-- puuuurdy trees. I need to venture further east, though... I've seen most of the midwest now, and my curiosity about "t3h world" has yet to be satiated. The idea of getting in my car and being somewhere completely new within hours? It makes life worthwhile. The difference in the trees between the southern part and the northern part is amazing. There was only one weekend that the trees were fully colorful up north before a snow/rain storm took most of them down... and I took pictures. The trees looked like they were on fire. whee
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Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 10:05 am
The trees in Kansas look like poop. 'Nuff said.
Spring's nice, though.
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Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 10:06 am
TheShrike Nafariously_Ploted TheShrike Metro Detroit has miles set in squares YES. What the crap is up with that?! And why can't I turn where I need to?! XD I grew up with it, so I find it so convienant... unless I don't want to travel around a whole mile to get somewhere. The concept of a 'Michigan Left' with the one way streets still annoys me. Gotta go left to go right. Bah!
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Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 10:07 am
The pollution around the cities make the trees look like crap here, too.
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Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 10:10 am
See, nobody bothered to tell me about the roads of MADNESS before I drove up there, so once I was off the highway and trying to find my hotel... I was screaming and cursing up a storm. And I ended up in a bad place. What's sad is that I called my friend-- who is a Michigan native, I might add -- for directions, and HE was the one who ended up sending me the wrong way.
It's okay, though. Next time he visits me, I'm driving him to the hood and LEAVING him there.
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Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 10:20 am
TheShrike See, nobody bothered to tell me about the roads of MADNESS before I drove up there, so once I was off the highway and trying to find my hotel... I was screaming and cursing up a storm. And I ended up in a bad place. What's sad is that I called my friend-- who is a Michigan native, I might add -- for directions, and HE was the one who ended up sending me the wrong way. It's okay, though. Next time he visits me, I'm driving him to the hood and LEAVING him there. Ha! Unless you know a Detroit native, and/or someone who is -very- good with directions, mapquest, and a conventional map, it is pretty hard to navigate down that way. People drive like assholes down there, too. That REALLY doesn't help.
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Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 10:24 am
I've only driven through Michigan on the way to Toronto, and I'm sure the experience colored my perceptions very negatively. There were four traffic accidents. The trip that should've taken about 10 hours to drive wound up taking nearly 20. Horrendous.
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Eloquent Conversationalist
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Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 10:28 am
Eh, my friend lives twenty minutes outside of Detroit. So, I can't really blame him... but I still intend to torture him. I'm a great friend!
I drove across Michigan to go to Lollapalooza. Construction.... 80% of the way.
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