Jackie's Adventures in Texas

[tju_tju_tju_tju]

Well, I'm in San Antonio, Texas right now. Why, you ask? Because my mom just HAS to go to yet another Queensryche concert (heavy metal band from the 80s that my mom is obsessed with). I really don't see why we needed to come, especially since it's, like, really inconvenient and my mom's MET the band for Chrissakes. But whatever.

No offense to any Texans that might be on my f-list, but I really don't like it here. I'm not entirely sure why. You know how sometimes you just hate something/someone for no particular reason? Same thing with me and Texas. I mean, yeah it's hot, and yeah I'm not too fond of the culture here, but other than that I have no reason to dislike it so much. I mean, the meat here is amazing. I've had, like, three steaks in the past two days. SO delicious. But I digress.

I made it my specific goal not to go to the Alamo while we were here, and what do my parents make me do? Go to the friggin Alamo. *sigh* I was tempted to pull an Ozzy Osbourne, but of course I didn't. I mean, it was kind of cool, how old the building was and everything, but other than that it wasn't that big of a deal. Especially the gift shop. *shudders* But I'm gonna stop talking about it now.

We walked around way too much yesterday. And we went to this place that had the tackiest, ugliest, tourist-y stuff EVER. I wanted to kill myself while we were in there. And it was too fucking hot.

Finally saw Order of the Phoenix today. It was tres cool, but of course they screwed up the explanation of the Prophecy, like they screw up EVERY OTHER EXPLANATION IN EVERY OTHER MOVIE EXCEPT CoS. Ugh. But other than that, it was awesome.

I've decided that Seattle's Best Coffee is okay as long as it has whole milk and a crapload of sugar. And, since that company is owned by Starbucks, the same might hold true for them. I mean, I liked the cup o' Starbucks I had at State Street Grill a few weeks ago. I just had so much cream and sugar in it it was like cream and sugar with some coffee in it.

I need to get moving on my heroes_bigboom thing. Finished Chapter 6 today. Wanna start Chapter 7. But I want to read more fics for the bestofheroes awards. I also nominated fics at the heroes_slash awards. Including some of my own stuff. Boo-yah.

Comments

[cerebel.livejournal.com]

Is it that you're moving to Texas? Because, dude. I had to move to from Virginia to Texas in between sophomore and junior year of high school, and it really amazingly sucked. I hated Texas a lot. Reflexive hatred, same as you. Ugh. I've gotten used to it, though.

[cerebel.livejournal.com]

PS: And I'll get to work beta'ing chapter 6.

[tju-tju-tju-tju.livejournal.com]

Awesomeness. ^_^

[tju-tju-tju-tju.livejournal.com]

No, I'm moving to Seattle. Texas is just kinda a pit stop along the way, thank God. I couldn't stand living here. I'd run away and never return.

[cerebel.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I had to live in Dallas. After growing up my entire life in Virginia.

Ugh. I never really stopped blaming my parents for it, but I ended up at a school where I can do things like, hey, film movies, so I guess it wasn't all bad.

[tju-tju-tju-tju.livejournal.com]

That sucks. But the filming stuff thing is cool. ^_^

[running-shadow.livejournal.com]

Aw I like San Antonio. Especially that street that goes around a rover or something, it looks so cool. I have family in Texas though, so it feels part of me somehow.

You should have gone to the Alamo and asked if you could go see the basement, like in that funny movie that I'm blanking on....

/randomness

[tju-tju-tju-tju.livejournal.com]

I liked the River Walk, although I wasn't feeling very well so I couldn't really enjoy it.

Haha. ;)

[xmindthegapx.livejournal.com]

Haha, you know what's funny? We stopped in San Antonio when I moved from Alabama to California. Yeah, Texas is not my cup of tea either. I don't know if you noticed this, but what is with all the GIANT American flags? I mean, Texas, you're part of the US, we get it.

Oh, hey did you see the river thing? There's like, a man-made river thing in San Antonio that goes through a huuuuuge mall. It was pretty much the only part of Texas that I liked.

[symphonic-dame.livejournal.com]

GALE!!

Sorry, but yer ikon is teh smeXx.

XD

[xmindthegapx.livejournal.com]

Haha, thank you kindly. As soon as I saw it, I was like, "Um, I have to go to my bunk..."

[tju-tju-tju-tju.livejournal.com]

Ha. And oh yeah, I definitely noticed. I'm not sure which they have more of---American flags or Texan flags. At least there aren't Confederate flags anywhere (from what I've seen, anyway).

Yeah, that was actually the only part I liked too. It's really awesome. And I still don't understand why there aren't any fences there. What's stopping anyone from pushing a person in there? O_o Or someone falling. If I hadn't dodged this ten-year-old I would've fallen in myself.

[xmindthegapx.livejournal.com]

They had Confederate flags in Alabama, so they don't have as much of a shock value for me. Those crazy Southerners...

It's so pretty at night, what with the lights and everything. Or maybe the lights were only there because we were there around Christmas. Hm, I think if I wanted to kill someone, I'd def drown them in the river. But there are probably so many people around that he'd get rescued.

[symphonic-dame.livejournal.com]

I mean, the meat here is amazing.
Possibly the best commentary..evarr, lolz. ILU Jackster. Miss youuu already ;_;

And yes!! CoS rules!!

*official announcer voice* Where in America will Jackie end up next? ;D

[tju-tju-tju-tju.livejournal.com]

Haha...why thank you. ^_^ ILU and miss you too. *hugz*

True dat.

Heh. ;P Who knows? Find out next episode...

[tju-tju-tju-tju.livejournal.com]

Oh, I can't believe I forgot to mention this---when I was at the airport in Texas I saw two gay guys. Together.

[skypipe.livejournal.com]

Well. That's too bad. But I know how you feel. When we went to Virgina, I didn't really like it there either. The only thing I enjoyed there was the food. Seattle's Best Coffee is okay. Ha ha. Seattle.

My parents and aunt are going to see Harry Potter tomorrow. I've had a lot of people say they screwed it up.

Oh. And what did you nominate for the heroes_slash awards?

[tju-tju-tju-tju.livejournal.com]

Yeah...Seattle just seems to follow me everywhere I go. XP

Well, they just told things differently. And some of the small things they messed up. But I enjoyed it.

Gods, I don't even remember. I nominated your Mohinder/Thompson fic, and "The Pole", and "Sleep With Sylar", and my DL/Isaac fic. And a lot of fantasticpants's stuff. Oh, and "Blindfold Chess". Some stuff on my rec list. Few things I voted for in bestofheroes.