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I have checked into the hotel where the women of my clan and I are staying this weekend. Everything's sort of...not quiiiite as nice as I'd hoped it would be, but hopefully we won't be in the room much.

Someday I will live in a flat that is up to my mother's standards, and we won't have to do this hotel thing anymore. It's not that her standards are especially high, it's just that they're different from mine; I like to be able to pay the rent and don't care about trains, whereas she can't sleep if there are trains in the general vicinity and has a drastically off-target view of housing prices in Chicago. She pays about the same in mortgage on a four-bedroom house as I pay in rent on a one-bedroom apartment. But then, she has to live in Texas, and there's no real substitute in cash dollars for NOT having to live in Texas.

I probably won't be on much this weekend, but I'll try to send photos occasionally if possible.

If you read about any matricides in Chicago this weekend, I was with you guys the whole time, okay?

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[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

I don't like living away from the flightpath. I've done it - and actually my parents' place is no longer under the flightpath - for a while, but it feels WEIRD. Jets, commercial planes, rescue helicopters, i don't care, as long as i can hear them.

[daizy2k2.livejournal.com]

It's one of those things where I don't really notice the train until I can't hear it anymore, an then I miss it.