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This post is more political than I meant it to be
Why is it that when you're standing at a bus stop, the smokers are always standing upwind of you?
Bill Maher's show is recorded and posted online as a podcast. I don't agree with everything he says, but his show is still fantastic. ("We can pretend that the biggest threat to our children is some creep on the internet; or we can admit it's us. Because when your son can't find France on a map, or touch his toes with his hands, or understand that the ads on TV are lying... then the person fucking him is YOU.")
And it helps give you new insights. Today I learned that Ben Affleck occasionally has intelligent things to say!
So I'm moving to Boulder. ♥![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
libekory and I are making all these excited plans about how we'll do things that I expect we'll forget the moment we move in together.
Among those, we're trying so hard to be good because our country is terrifying us. We're using Buy Blue to try and give our money to people who give THEIR money to Democrats. Upon researching, however, we discovered easier said than done. For instance, breakfast. Cereal is simply not blue. Kellogg's and Post and General Mills all donate pretty substantially Republican. Li-san even suggested diet shakes for breakfast, like Ensure, but on researching that it TOO belongs to something which donates heavily red.
Well, my conclusion was that we'll make the best of the companies that donate reasonably equally (Kellogg's is 56% GOP/44% Dem in donations) and buy blue where we can (buy Gateway, not Dell!).
It's not possible to live blue when the big corporations all want their big corporate tax cuts. :P
Bill Maher's show is recorded and posted online as a podcast. I don't agree with everything he says, but his show is still fantastic. ("We can pretend that the biggest threat to our children is some creep on the internet; or we can admit it's us. Because when your son can't find France on a map, or touch his toes with his hands, or understand that the ads on TV are lying... then the person fucking him is YOU.")
And it helps give you new insights. Today I learned that Ben Affleck occasionally has intelligent things to say!
So I'm moving to Boulder. ♥
libekory and I are making all these excited plans about how we'll do things that I expect we'll forget the moment we move in together.Among those, we're trying so hard to be good because our country is terrifying us. We're using Buy Blue to try and give our money to people who give THEIR money to Democrats. Upon researching, however, we discovered easier said than done. For instance, breakfast. Cereal is simply not blue. Kellogg's and Post and General Mills all donate pretty substantially Republican. Li-san even suggested diet shakes for breakfast, like Ensure, but on researching that it TOO belongs to something which donates heavily red.
Well, my conclusion was that we'll make the best of the companies that donate reasonably equally (Kellogg's is 56% GOP/44% Dem in donations) and buy blue where we can (buy Gateway, not Dell!).
It's not possible to live blue when the big corporations all want their big corporate tax cuts. :P
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wait, where do you live now? D:
well if you're moving near me then let's hang out!!!!! >:O
PS: no, there is no trader joe's in CO, but if you want to buy yuppie nonsense you'll find lots of it in boulder. XD
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We should hang out! You can tell me where to find food that isn't organic tofu granola?
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Stalking? XD;;;;
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Stalking where stalking = sharing a house with. I'm currently sharing one floor of a three-story building with two other girls and spending $600/mo for it, so yeah, moving to Boulder where we're currently looking at an ENTIRE three-story building all to ourselves for less than I'm paying here, that's a pretty good deal, I think. XD
We were looking at a three-bedroom place at that price but she likes Boulder and you just dissed it and now she prematurely hates you forever probably so you can nevar live with us. :\ ALAS.
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wait, you're looking at a 3-bedroom for less than $600/mo total!? O_O damn, I'd be willing to commute for that XD; if you need a really poor roommate in january, lemme know. XD;;
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Li-san assures me the public transportation is Not So Bad around Boulder and into Denver. When I visit at Thanksgiving I shall somewhat see for myself! I totally know about commuting though -- it's an hour trip by public transportation from where I live to where I work, so that's two hours a day wasted on travel. :\ Ahh, cities.
I meant per person -- in total it's less than $1100, and my current apartment is more expensive than that for about a third of the space, plus ridiculous like, gas heat that Dubya delivers to me personally with a smirk and a $200 utility bill every winter month, it's
awesomenot awesome.You should hang out with us at our awesome apartment when I get there, and in the morning we'll all part ways wanting to kill one another and I'm sure glad nobody decided to jump into anything. XD
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aw, I was like "what, a 3-person apartment for $600?!" although there probably are some in the more dodgy parts of denver, but the nicest I've found was a nice big 3-bedroom (at the time I had two roommates) with all the amenities (pool, hot tub, sauna, workout room thing, on-site laundry, etc) for $900 (not including utilities)
still, it's not that bad, at least if I got a job >_>
I'll try to come hang out with you! We should play video games or drink or something to break the ice, as I at least am shyish! Although I am pretty awesome! I'm so awesome that my old roommate kicked me out because I was poor (well, he didn't kick me out, but he bought a condo and we moved out of our apartment and he was like "you can't afford to live with me!" and I was like "you're right!") but he felt so sorry for me like 6 months later that he offered to let me live there anyhow because he likes me that much!!! (I didn't take him up on it because at the time even the cheap rent seemed like something I'd be happier spending on other things, but now I wish I had because mountains succcckkkk >_>; but I still get to sleep over in his bed when I want to!! he's gay btw XD;)
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