The Kat&#39;s Journal

Actually, I should re-read Herodotus. I'm reading Thucydides right now (accompanied by Donald Kagan's book as well).

I should read more Xenophon as well.

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frostedelves.livejournal.com

I should do that too. Perhaps I'll find it less dry now it's not required reading. I always loved things like the plays and Plato's Symposium best, the history itself was more like work.

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Yeah. When it was required, I remember slogging my feet through a large chunk of it, though there were funny parts. Like how Herodotus will segue for like 20 pages.

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cleverusername2.livejournal.com

Woot for Jareth!

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If you have a specific, possibly one-time, desire to drive away at a certain time, there's always rental.

What've you got against Texas?

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That is true. I hadn't thought about that. Though renting a car just to drive in random directions until I get somewhere I don't know where.... seems odd. Though it is a good idea. I think it would help thwart the desires until I got enough money for a car.

As for Texas, nothing really. It was just a thought. As many people as I know moving this direction are also moving that direction. It's a general wonderment statement about Texas. So, Jim, what's great about Texas?

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Texas has damn near everything. It's got three huge cities and a decent-sized college town in the middle, and between them they've got just about everything - every sport, every play, every band. Not too much in the way of natural features, although it's a lot less bland than it gets credit for.

It's paleolithically conservative, sure, but at least they're straight up about it. None of this talking liberal and voting for Tim Eyman crap.

All the cities are really different. Dallas is on one end of the spectrum, Austin is at the other, Houston is in the middle, San Antonio is just a little above the axis and El Paso is in Mexico.

Of course, it's hotter than all hell in the summer, too cold or too wet in the winter and distinctly lacking in real mountains. But it's a hell of a lot better than people in the northwest, midwest and northeast give it credit for.

Plus, it's a Texas attitude. Nobody ever says "hell yeah I'm from Washington."

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You forgot to mention that it's a whole 'nother country.

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No, it's *like* a whole 'nother country.

It also gave us both George W. Bush and Molly Ivins.

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And one of the coolest venues in the country - the Backyard in Bee Cave [near Austin], TX.

What's cool about Texas? Bee Cave, Texas has a ring that would work in very few other states.

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A ring?

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Yes, "Bee Cave, Texas" is fun to say. "Bee Cave, Minnesota," or "Bee Cave, New Jersey" is a lot less.

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Ahhhhhh. Okay. That makes sense. I was trying to think of what sort of physical structure you were talking about for a bit there.

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Acutally, "Bee Cave, Minnesota" doesn't sound so bad.

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Molly Ivins is good.

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See, that's the best Texas thing I've gotten yet. Most of the ones have been like, "Well, because Texas is awesome." While that may or may not be true, it isn't going to sell me on a place that I know mostly through my short, short time in Dallas. (I was not entirely impressed, really.) It sounds like it would be an interesting place to visit.

(Which brings me to a thought. I always have issues with 'where to go' when I'm in vacation. I just wander until I find stuff. Are there good palces for that in Texas?)

While I would say that "Seattle rules" that wouldn't be the whole or my argument. Unless I was very short on time.

The heat is really what probably keeps me away from it. Of course, there is a reason I visit Vegas in the winter, too. So, you never know.

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Seattle does rule. It's probably the best city in the country besides New York, by my standards. (Note: I've never actually been to New York.)

But Seattle's just one city. Texas has lots.

Probably the cities most suited for your style of vacation are Austin and San Antonio. Austin is a vibrant college/capital town. San Antonio is like New Orleans, in terms of its attitude toward tourism, only it was founded inland by Spanish-speakers instead of French-speakers on the sea.

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Hmmmmm. Interesting. Verry, verry interesting.

I should track down people who have been to other places and quiz them about what is good where they are.

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Austin is indeed cool and not just because it's near Bee Cave.

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hopeevey.livejournal.com

Cookie/Lemonade soup? Eeeewwww

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Well, yes. It doesn't become that until after it is in my stomach though. They're seperate when I eat them.

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hopeevey.livejournal.com

>>giggles<<

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sepulchrave.livejournal.com

good post. i've been meaning to do some like this as well (^_^).

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*bows* Thank you.

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grayarcadian.livejournal.com

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When you want a car, but not the Full Monty.

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