what am i doing with my life?
Jun. 22nd, 2004 03:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jacktellsliesi want to run away after graduation, just for a little while. i'd go for a year, perhaps.
pick a city or three, please; tell me why i should go there. (american cities need not apply.)
pick a city or three, please; tell me why i should go there. (american cities need not apply.)
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Date: 2004-06-22 12:54 pm (UTC)The "why" should be obvious. ;)
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Date: 2004-06-22 01:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-22 12:56 pm (UTC)How about Bangladesh? I don't know why, I know nothing whatsoever about Bangladesh ... Except that I love saying "Bangladesh" and it sounds like the sort of exotic crazy place one would run away to.
Tokyo. Because it's a helluva mindfuck. Fun and crazy and achingly beautiful in that overwhelming way (Lost in Translation is so eerily accurate it left me in shock) and like no place, people or culture you can even imagine.
I'm sure I could think of more, but that's three.
Or you could just go to Galway. Everybody loves Galway.
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Date: 2004-06-22 01:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-22 01:09 pm (UTC)2) Cambridge, UK. Because we're not there anymore, and we love it and miss it and you might as well see what's to love about it. It's beautiful and you can easily be quiet when you want, and around a lot of people when you want. It's ridiculously liberal, you can still be a freak if you like, but it won't cost you your sense o community.
3) New York City. Oh, crickey, it's a cliche suggestions, but that means you might as well get it over with. You can choose to do the cheesey touristy thing, or not. There are plenty of both sorts, of all sorts, really. You could see the Cloisters.
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Date: 2004-06-22 01:58 pm (UTC)okay Obviously 1) Here is out, so I'll replace it with Mumbai, Because I want to go there really badly myself.
and 3) I'll replace with Amsterdam, because it's fucking Amsterdam! *boggle* who doesn't want to visit there at some point?
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Date: 2004-06-22 02:04 pm (UTC)i didn't even know bombay wasn't bombay anymore! where have i been? i would love to see india one day. that one goes to the top of the list.
(hee. new amsterdam, meet old amsterdam...) you're right again, that is definitely someplace i need to go. it has the best sex worker unions in the world!
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Date: 2004-06-22 01:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-28 04:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-22 01:13 pm (UTC)Do you have the means to leave the country?
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Date: 2004-06-22 01:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-22 06:25 pm (UTC)^_~
You should consider...
☆ Kyoto
☆ Reykjavík
☆ Cairo
☆ Bangkok
☆ Venice
☆ Athens
☆ Sydney
☆ Lhasa
☆ Prague
And so many others! ^_^
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Date: 2004-06-22 08:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-22 01:15 pm (UTC)1. orlando, fl to meet lil' ol me for tea;
2. st. augustine, fl to see the oldest establishment [? is that what it is?] in the us;
3. south beach, fl b/c there's nothing anywhere else like it.
all in a day's drive.
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Date: 2004-06-22 01:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-23 05:12 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-22 03:09 pm (UTC)Nevertheless, I'll follow your misguided instructions and recommend Toronto, entirely because of Degrassi. Or do you mean no cities in the continents of America? If that is the case, I think you should move to Pluto. Yes, the icy quasi-planet. Pluto: If you lived here, you'd be home by 2014.
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Date: 2004-06-22 03:13 pm (UTC)*laughs* it was an edit. i'm terribly sorry. it's not that i don't want to live in america persay, it's just that i needn't really run away to do that.
i'd considered toronto for the same reason...
ah, the first tenth planet... what culture... what sights... the architecture is brilliant there.
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Date: 2004-06-22 10:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-22 10:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-22 03:17 pm (UTC)Kingston Ontario- I feel much affection for this Canadian college town though I've not seen it for about 6 years. It is cold and colourful. I think the houses are what claimed me.
Norwich England- You should visit in spring or summer and walk around the lake on campus often, shout at the ducks and dogs, eat yoghurt, take pictures, go the market, play billiards at the Hog and Armour. It's a wonderful, medieaval, rabbit infested, sort of place.
Not that you shouldn't fly kites from a glacier, camp on mountainsides, study music in cathedrals, or anything else you fancy.
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Date: 2004-06-22 10:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-22 03:49 pm (UTC)2) Tibet - Mind clensin, not even to see a Lama or a monk, just to know that you are in their homeland would settle me. I wouldn't mind sitting with a monk either, but alas, war sucks.
3) Maybe somewhere in India - TO appreciate all you have and understand better what to do with it all ( talents and materials) (not saying you don't already.)
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Date: 2004-06-22 05:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-22 07:02 pm (UTC)Columbo or Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka. My old roommate was from Columbo. It's a beautiful country, and very inexpensive (once you're there, at least).
The Underground City of Australia. I saw it on a travel show when I was a child & have always wanted to go there. I don't know if it has a name...
Also, Iceland & India are two locales I'd much like to tour. Sorry, that's more than three suggestions.
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Date: 2004-06-22 08:45 pm (UTC)oh! sri lanka would be wonderful! it gave me one of my favourite words!
australia has an underground city, too? i had no idea. do you know its story?
iceland and india yes yes yes!
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Date: 2004-06-22 11:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-23 07:12 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-22 08:30 pm (UTC)Tokyo: it's the city that never sleeps. it's beautiful and fun and filled with interesting people.
Sydney: it's in Australia, one of the most beautiful of beautiful places, it's filled with fabulous people and the money is pretty ;)
((on another note, huzzah for running away!))
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Date: 2004-06-22 08:47 pm (UTC)i really do want to see tokyo.
huzzah!
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Date: 2004-06-22 09:44 pm (UTC)me too, mister. tokyo is so pretty.
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Date: 2004-06-22 10:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-22 11:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-22 10:11 pm (UTC)Tibet.
Morocco. (Which I desperatly want to see, but it is unfortunatly not a safe place to go at all nowadays)
Istanbul.
Paris. (I've already been there, I know, but it was for something like four days, and I thought it was terribly romantic)
Johannasburg, South Africa.
There are others, but that's more than three, so I'll leave off there.
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Date: 2004-06-22 10:22 pm (UTC)i had a chance to go when i was in dublin, but turned it down. i kind of wish i hadn't, but really it was probably the wisest thing to do.
ooh!
paris, yes. i'm actually really kind of considering going there. what do you think?
i want to go to africa so badly, and everyone thinks i'm crazy!
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Date: 2004-06-22 10:35 pm (UTC)Why do people think you're crazy for wanting to go to Africa? It looks so beautiful! And so facinating!
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Date: 2004-06-22 10:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-23 04:15 am (UTC)As for a suggestion, I hear that most parts of Finland are beautiful.
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