2. I found out last night that BOTH of my roommates are moving out within the next month and a half and I am fuh-REAKING out about having to interview new people and get used to sharing my living space with strangers again. Also, I might have zero furniture if Joseph decides to take it all.
3. Sending love haikus to my sweetie makes me grin.
4. I mentioned this to a couple of people, but I went to a party last night with a native Mississippian and a native New Orleanser (is that the correct terminology?), both of who said that I don't get to call myself a Southerner because I'm from Virginia, and Virginia isn't part of the South. Apparently, my lack of accent counts against me too. I generally get this reaction from folks in the Deep South, but everyone up in the Northeast considers Virginia the South!
So, I thought I'd get a vote from y'all.
Poll #1224331 The South
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All
Do you consider Virginia (the southern part, not the northern part) a part of the South?
50 (80.6%)Why or why not?
Do you consider yourself a Southerner?
Why or why not?
Finally, we agreed that Virginia counts as Upper South or Northern South, but someone else reminded me that Virginia is also totally Old South.
- Mood:
both annoyed and happy
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I'm in richmond. I tell people where I live by which confederate war hero's statue I live by, because yes, we have an entire street lined with large statues of confederate war heros. We also have the confederate museum right by the entrance to our hospital. I mean, really, if you go out in the more rural areas of Virgina (which is a lot of virginia) you know, it's the south.
And I am very testy about this, because I deal with people saying this all the time, and strangely, it's always been people not from the south.
For the record, I do, think there is a significant difference between rural v. urban south, big time, but the rural areas in virginia are not so dissimilar (did I spell that correctly?) from rural areas in Alabama or Mississippi (all places I have spent a lot of time in).
Virginia is also huge. Much, much bigger than the northeastern states. The eastern shore of VA is different from Richmond, which is different from Loudon County, which is different from Hampton Roads, which is different from the coal towns out west, which are different from the Charlottesvile area. So, yeah, facile observations on what it is or isn't from random people kind of get under my skin, too.
And also, I work for the state I get one day off for Martin Luther King and then one day off for Lee jackson Day. they are right next to each other (which is just, so, so, fucked Up) and form a 4 day weekend, so NO ONE will fight to get rid of it!
"Yeah, until they moved it to Montgomery for being TOO CLOSE TO THE YANKEES!!"
(And now we can all laugh merrily and move along.)
Emily: So where are you from?
Fundie: Mississippi.
Emily: I am from Maryland. Yankee to you, southerner to everyone else.
AND THEN WE ALL LAUGHED MERRILY AND BURNED 'THE JOY OF SEX.'
anyway, i am a full blooded yankee with southern parents, and let me tell you, having lived way the hell up in new hampshire for parts of my life, philadelphia practically feels southern, so virginia for sure counts.
and, oh, ps, virginia doesn't hold the patent on racist holiday celebrations. in rhode island they celebrate VJ day in August. As in Victory over Japan Day, as in the day the US dropped bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Oh well.