Musings

[gothwalk]

Today is inannajones and my first second anniversary. This is a wonderful thing, and it's put a silly grin on my face at various points during the day. We're headed out to a restaurant for dinner, so we won't be online or anything. I can't say enough good things about being married to her.

Other friends/acquaintances have just announced that they're going to be having a kid. They got married two years ago too, there or thereabouts; they're not people we ever knew all that well, despite my having shared a house with one of them for a while. They're now living in suburbia, own their house, and are starting a family, and it just brings home to me how unusual my own life is - not wanting kids, intending to still play D&D at 101, and considering suburbia to be the second circle of hell. I think they're happy going the way they are, and I'm certainly happy going the way I am, but it's hard to believe we ever had things in common.

There should be a word for acquainatance/friend.

Time to get out of here.

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Re: Um

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

Neither of our places qualify in my mind as suburbia, really - we have walking access to restaurants, bookshops, and other elements of urban life. Suburbia is what you get in Blanchardstown, out around Monkstown (I think, not quite sure of the area I'm thinking of), and areas like that. Qualifying elements in my mind are: Built after 1932, semi detached or detached housing, streets that curve in an attempt to hide identical housing, non-essential facilities outside walking distance. Shannon Town is an example of suburbia gone mad, or was, around 1992.

I cannot live in the countryside any more.

I could, I think. It would require changes, but I think I could do it, and enjoy it.

I find the idea of having to rely on virtual spaces to express personality stangely chilling. It is reminiscent of rural living, but with a different kind of distance between you and other people.

It is chilling, in a way. I don't find it so bad, since so much of my self expression is in virtual spaces anyway (online, D&D, writing, reading). But there are the small spaces too - internal decoration, gardening, and I think they relieve that somewhat.