Oct 28 2009
Moving
Kara and I have been a little wrapped up in ourselves the last month or two. I know at this juncture it’s customary to say “OMG so sry 4 not bloggin more LOL”, but I am far too classy for that.
We’ve been a little sparse here because we’ve been moving out of Frederick, where we’ve spent the past year, and back to the same patch of suburbia that we called home before moving to Frederick. I’ve also had the swine flu, which is not incredibly scary but is still totally lame if you have the kind of lungs it likes to eat.
Anyway, the past year has taught me a few things, which I’ll be brief about:
- Living in a city is a romantic idea, but living two and a half hours away from work in a small city that really only functions as a suburb of DC is less romantic.
- You should never ever rent an apartment from an individual that you don’t know personally, and if you or anyone you know are considering renting property in Frederick or Baltimore Counties from a couple named D. & E. C., you should probably email me first so I can tell you my horror stories. (I could complain about my landlord by name here without fear of being libelous, but that would be a trashy thing to do.)
Apologies 4 not postin aside, the real reason I’m posting today is to quote the following. It’s out of context, but that doesn’t really matter because it’s probably the weirdest single sentence I’ve ever read on Wikipedia:
In “Green Fire” (1998), a collaborative novella by Eileen Gunn, Michael Swanwick, Pat Murphy, and Andy Duncan, the science fiction writers Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and L. Sprague De Camp, along with Grace Hopper, take part in the Philadelphia Experiment, with the assistance of Nikola Tesla and the Aztec deity Quetzalcoatl.