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So, for some reason I feel like stepping out from my curtain of random bizarro posts and writing something serious for a change. I guess I'm just having one of those days. But I've had more than my fair share of those days during the last year.

I'm sitting here thinking that working from home is not all it's cracked up to be. Working from home in the middle of nowhere, on top of that. Nothing more than the birds and the bugs for company. I appreciate the wife, too...but she sleeps half the day. That's okay, she needs that right now. I've never been a terribly social person, but I guess I feel better when I'm surrounded by people. Even if I don't feel like talking, at least I know they are there.

Unrelated topic, something really smells in my kitchen this morning. It's strongest in a certain spot that doesn't appear to be close to anything that would ordinarily host a stench. I really wonder what my wife was cooking last night. The smell brings to mind a certain W.B. Yeats poem in which he writes: "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" I don't have an answer for him, but whatever it is...it was probably conceived in my kitchen.

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i hear that y'all are moving to town soon...yes? it sounds like that would be a good thing for you. i have what would probably be a good situation for you. we live in the 'burbs...but all i have to do is walk 1/2 block, and there are neat stores, a movie theater, restaurants...and the bus into the subway...which takes you to boston in about 1/2 an hour...bus and all. it's *pretty* quiet in the house...but not nearly as quiet as where you are.

as for your kitchen-stench...has cthulhu been in your kitchen?

Yes, we're intending to move into town. I'm looking forward to that. I tried the country thing, and it's not for me. I do love our house and yard. I wish I could have this same place, but actually in town. I guess I need to feel like I'm part of some kind of community. And I miss be able to walk to a lot of places, or only taking a short drive. Yeah, I like your situation. Similar to some of the places I lived in DC.

As for cthulhu? Quite possibly we got a visit from that thing. We do have a dirt basement here, so who knows what might dig it's way up from the bowels of the earth into our house.

feeling a sense of community has always been important to me, even when I didn't realize how much so. I hope moving into town is a positive change for you.

Thanks. I suspect it will be positive. Yeah, I've always thought I needed to feel like I'm a part of something larger than myself (and the bigger the better), but it's always been at odds with my anti-social tendencies. So, I put that to the test, and finally discovered I am definitely not a hermit...or, if I am, I'm certainly not content being one.

ewwww, no big cities, no suburbs.

i won't go any larger than charlottesville.

i *need* the serenity of the country. it will be very hard on me to move to a city, even one so small as charlottesville. i'm going to miss my trees, my starry skies, my quiet. i can't stand light pollution, nor do i like being surrounded by humanity.

we're moving because (a) we're lonely, (b) boy is talking to the cows far too often, and (c) boy is depressed out here. if we could have a country manor with all of our friends, DSL, and a resident goth band, i wouldn't move.