My Non-Ambitious Ambition

March 20, 2009

some daily comics

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March 2, 2009

drag party

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February 16, 2009

coming home.

when i got back to asheville after the holidays, i was told not to come back to work. reason given was the economy, but i'm fairly certain it was actually a result of another girl, who'd been there longer, wanting more hours.

after job-searching for a month and a half, i decided to give up. cities that make most of their money from tourism are horrendous places to find a job in january. think traverse city.

so i'm coming back. i could use a break from asheville, anyway, so i'll be in grand rapids for two months. mid-march to mid-may, i'll be living on the 300-block of charles ave, spending most of my time either sitting on the porch and playing accordion, or sitting at common ground, smoking cigarettes and working on my new year's goal of "read every book i own".

despite my worry that this would feel like defeat, i'm actually really excited. i'm really looking forward to being back there for a couple months. and in may, i'm coming back (with one of my favorite people in tow) to the mountains, at which point there will be more jobs (tourism) and housing (punks travel in the summer and their rooms open up).

i'll see y'all in a few weeks!

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September 12, 2008

things i miss about grand rapids.

1) being around people who have known me for years.
2) pita house.
3) proximity to lake michigan.
4) g-rad, nest, the daac, the uica, and the whole community of people that surrounds all that.
5) terrain that is mostly flat and therefore easily bikeable. (biking in a mountain town requires more physical capability than i can even dream of.)
6) riverside park.
7) cheap rent and no tourists.
8) coffee shops where you can smoke inside. (oh, morningstar! common ground! kava house! damn non-smoking laws in asheville!)
9) the farmer's market.
10) gaia cookies.

things i don't miss:

1) too much snow for too long.
2) the price of cigarettes. (mine were $7.50 there, here they're $4.20.)
3) not much of a radical community to speak of. (asheville is kind of a punk/anarchist hotbed.)

so, the thing i'm getting at is that even though i love it down here, i've been getting homesick for grand rapids lately. i can't afford to come visit, because it's expensive to live here and hard to find jobs, so i'm barely scraping together rent each month. hopefully i'll be back for christmas, but who knows?

i'm thinking of y'all.

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May 31, 2008

yeah, asheville!

the more i move, the further in the past grand rapids feels. but i still tell lots of stories about people or places there, it still has a special place in my heart. one of my friends might be going up to michigan at the end of august, so assuming the timing doesn't conflict with the portland zine symposium (which itself assumes i'll actually have the money saved up to fly out there), i'll be coming back to visit then.

but now! life! i live in asheville!

these are my roommates.