This place, population ~7000.
After a rainy day, everything stays damp. I remember this well, the wet grass and pine needles and stained pavement and brown slugs.
I found a wallet-sized print of my senior picture in the garage. I wore a black sweater and a red pout and clear pale skin. It’s still one of my favorite pictures of me, though I was only 18. Too bad my yearbook staff fucked up and printed a different shot instead, one I hated.
The cats really want to come out of the bedroom to see the rest of the house. They have to wait until the dog leaves tomorrow in the motorhome.
This town’s “cultural heritage” is Scandinavian, like many Pacific Northwestern places. There’s a quaint little downtown, where the lightposts are festooned with Norwegian flags. I am going to walk down there now and have a coffee and check out the rumored used book shop.
Must learn to remember to say pop instead of soda.
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maybe it’s because I never order soda, but I never hear anyone say “pop”.
Really? That was the way I spoke growing up here; the sign in the aisle at the grocery store said “pop,” too. I always thought it was weird that this midwestern term somehow ended up in western WA, too.
And yeah, I don’t drink soda too often, either. Oops I mean pop. so confused now.
I get to go to the silverdale mall tonight to scope out cellphones. pretty excited to go to seattle some time this week, though I will probably be by myself as apparently Brian “working from home” actually means working from home.
maybe it’s city folk vs. country folk? that, and/or I don’t know very many people who were actually raised in Washington anyway.
http://tastyresearch.files.wordpress.com/2006/10/popvssodamap.png
according to this, pop is northern, coke is southern, and soda is primarily west coast and new england. the trends baffle me, too.
a a side note, I grew up saying pop and it took years of learning soda since moving to san francisco.
oh, and let me know when you’re feeling up to braving a trip into the city.
We’re coming into town Saturday, but we’ll be doing family stuff.
However next week I am venturing into the city on my own for a whole day of whatever I want so I will let you know. Are you working right now? Oh and pls shoot me yr phone number.