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[maevele]

lost my meds in the move. they may be at the old house on the counter, but either way I have not taken my meds since saturday. Doing fine considering. Still super duper love the new place. The kids are more independant here just based on the floorplan. Pobo knows I must be somewhere in the house, and is in love with her room, so runs off to play by herself a lot. it's weird.

Still getting the feel for the neighborhood, it's way more social than the old one, with kids out on the street a ton, neighbors on their porches chatting with each other. But it still quiets right down at night. I've never lived in an area like that. The social neighborhoods I've lived in, where groups of kids hang out in the street, have been the kind where it isn't just kids hanging around, but after dark a whole different element, and there is none of that. But every place I've lived that didn't have shady shit in the street at night has been the kind where you never see the neighbors. It's all duplexes, so maybe that changes the dynamic? Like, I'm used to either apartment neighborhoods in sketchy areas, or being the only duplex in single family near-burbs. point being, it's fucking nice out here, and it seems to suit us, class wise. and I'm done pretending the class thing doesn't matter, because seriously, I spent too long with the middle class neighbors looking askance at me.

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[wrdnrd]

and I'm done pretending the class thing doesn't matter, because seriously, I spent too long with the middle class neighbors looking askance at me.

HOOBOY, i hear you there. One of the reasons i love living in a college neighborhood is that the class structures are SO mixed up. I would NOT fit in in your average condo or middle class family neighborhood -- and the_andy and i are at a point in our lives, both length-of-relationship-wise and financially, where people are starting to *expect* that we'll move out of this apartment and into a house. If we ever do, it's gonna be hard to find the right balance where i don't feel like i stick out. Because while i'm sure i *look* perfectly middle class (and our income is certainly solidly middle class right now), i sure don't *think* middle class. Move into a middle class neighborhood and feel like a freak and a poser, but move into a lower class neighborhood and there i become a gentrifier.

I'm so glad you found a place that makes you so happy!! Yay! I approve of ecstatic maeveles!