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Home’s where you make it

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Gogga
on June 3, 2008
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Interesting article I’ve read.

Makes me want to travel.  Makes me want to experience new things, roll in the mud, camp, have to catch my own food for today, etc.

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We board the plane with our own pillows, blankets and inflatable cushions. We bring ear plugs so we don’t hear anything and a sleep mask so we don’t have to see. If you want to bring your own air, you can buy an “ultra-mini air supply” for $129. Also there is a concoction we can spray the surrounding area and the surfaces because we might be contaminated by a virus. Now we are ready to travel to an exotic destination and feel we are in home in bed.

When we arrive at the hotel, we can bring our own bedding for those who are obsessed about who was the person who slept in the bed the night before. Also there is a $79 Nano-UV Disinfection Light to kill bacteria, complete with remote control. I guess that is so we can stand at the door and zap lavatory surfaces, bedding and telephones rather than look at the spectacular view from our windows — which don’t open so we can’t hear or see or smell anything outside.

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Well, I’ve booked a ticket to Chicago yesterday.  Then I’ll be off to New Hampshire.  Then I’m not yet sure, but I’m sure I’ll find something good.

sick slums

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Gogga
on April 18, 2007
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Wow. There are bigger things than not having heat for a day… The people described in this article by Highland News are truly suffering.

I think to myself sometimes what my life would have been had I not gotten a computer what I was… how old was I? something like 8. Anyway, I wonder what it could have been like… I am sitting here, taking a break from writing a manuscript [there! I'm trying to not call them "papers" anymore; it's "manuscripts"] and reading news. What’s in the news? Nose-bleeds, ulcerating wounds, half-dead children.

This “slum”, though, doesn’t look half-bad, compared to the average apartment in Moscow around where I grew up. We lived in an all-brick highrise which was something amazing, you know. I would tell people we live in a brick building and they would ask in amazement if it’s really brick and not concrete panels like 99% of the other houses there.

Looking around my apartment now in center city Philadelphia I think it’s pretty good, no matter for the occasional no-heat spells, thanks to the age of the building. Like my hairstylist sais: “your building’s got ALOT of character” :)

Anyway, here’s the article:

Mums slam ’sick’ slum flats

By Claire Doughty

Published: 14 April, 2007

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