Things, you know, just things

[featherynscale]

kittenpants was out for the weekend, so triadruid and I (almost) finished up the holiday shopping while she was gone. I learned a thing about triadruid, which is that he has a certain number of steps alloted to him for each day, and at the end of that magical number of steps, he turns off his filters. Then, he's wandering idly through, say, the mall, going "Yugoloth. Megaloth! ULTRALOTH!!" and suchlike. Why not? Also, we haven't been in a mall in so long that being in the mall was like being in another world altogether from the one we know. I think this happens every time we go shopping, and I just forget. It's not precisely alienation, just a sense of being an ethnologist studying a tribe practically unknown by your own tribe.

Also, kittenpants is back now, and we should get to actually spend some time with her after she turns in her Greek final tomorrow. Wish her smooth translations, will ya?

The schedule for this week looks pretty nice, actually. Tonight, finish up Arts and Crafts Time (we're making some clever little things for some people...), tomorrow is Ballapalooza (zylch and an unknown cast of others are coming over to make booze balls and cookies in our kitchen), Thursday is Date Night (I have some inkling that we might go see The Golden Compass, and Friday we're gaming (there's this thing with this entire village full of werewolves....). That's a whole week in which none of the words are 'meeting'. I'm excited. Are you excited?

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Re: *is chipper!*

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Yes, well. *grump*
You know, every year, some time in the December-February range, I try to talk my partners into moving somewhere more temperate, but they never seem to want to go for it, for some reason. It's all very tragic.

Re: *is chipper!*

[arkhamrefugee.livejournal.com]

I would plug Atlanta, but I am leaving here so that really doesn't say much, does it? Although I can imagine why you would want to get away from frostbitten fingers and toes in the winter.

Re: *is chipper!*

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I always thought it would be fun to live in Atlanta. I'm in Kansas City because a job brought me here, but if that job hadn't moved, I might have moved to Atlanta under my own power. It was on the agenda.

Where are you going to?

Irony, party of me

[arkhamrefugee.livejournal.com]

Don't get me wrong. There are things I really like about Atlanta. The food scene is incredible, there is probably more ethnic diversity in this town than anywhere north of Miami, east of Houston and south of DC and the theaters actually show edgy plays instead of the fifth season of The Music Man like goes on elsewhere in this region. There is almost always something going on, even if you have to hunt for it and alternative lifestyles are at least tolerated here if not celebrated. It's just after eight years in one place, I start getting itchy feet and need to move somewhere else. And the bad parts of Atlanta (of which there are plenty) just make it that much easier to go.

As to where I am moving to... well, I am moving up there with you guys. Probably sometime between August and November 2008. Hopefully then, anyway.

Re: Irony, party of me

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I figured that was true, I just wanted to see you say it. :)

Indeed, all the things you mention about Atlanta are the things that make me think it would be a fine place to live (with the exception of the food thing -- I must be visiting the wrong restaurants.)

Re: Irony, party of me

[arkhamrefugee.livejournal.com]

Yup! I'm saying it... I am moving to Kansas City next year. Lock up your women. I'm a comin' into town! ;-)

What restaurants are you going to out here that make you not down with the foodings?

Re: Irony, party of me

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

You already have one of the best of our women -- are you saying you can handle D. *and* other women at the same time? Because I'd be impressed. :)

With regard to food, I actually haven't been anywhere much in town except for a few exits on the way into town and the few blocks around where DragonCon happens in a number of years. I have not had good luck in that area, although last time we did make it to a pretty good Italian place (which, sadly, I can't recall the name of -- something reminiscent of fire).

I do recall a really good Indian place in Little 5 Points, but I think that's the only good food I've ever had in Atlanta.

re: Italian restaurant

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Azio?

Re: Italian restaurant

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

That sounds right. Something like fire, ends in -io. This is the way my brain files half-assimilated information...

Re: Italian restaurant

[arkhamrefugee.livejournal.com]

I know of this Azio. It is a little chain place. Not great Italian, but pretty good. I can give you two or three others that are better. Like I said, just let me know when you are going to be back this way and I will make suggestions.

Re: Italian restaurant

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was the best food we'd had at any place within walking distance of the con, so we were prepared to call it good.

All suggestions are welcomed, although mostly we're only in town for DragonCon, and, as you note below, wasteland.

Re: Irony, party of me

[arkhamrefugee.livejournal.com]

You're making the assumption that I can handle D -NOW-. ;-)

It is my professional opinion that the area around Dragon*Con is a culinary wasteland. There is only one place within a five block radius that is worth a damn and that is an indian place called Havali. And you have to know exactly where that is to find it. And the places that you can eat on the way into Atlanta are equally crap.

The next time you come to ATL, let me know where you are staying. I will give you some good restaurants to try in that area.

Re: Irony, party of me

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Well, crap. We walked right by Havali. Should have taken that option, obviously. :)

Re: Irony, party of me

[arkhamrefugee.livejournal.com]

The problem with eating during D*C is the fact that people so rarely want to leave the con for even a minute to go get food. And the fact that parking is a right bitch does complicate matters even more. *shrugs* I dunno what to tell you if you only come into town for D*C. I can suggest some places to eat on Friday, but since it's Downtown the joint pretty well shuts down on weekends.

Re: Irony, party of me

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Eh, we don't so much have a problem leaving Con, except for the parking thing. We really want to park the car on Thursday/Friday, and not return to it on Monday. So we go places that are within walking distance. And, in theory, we could go places that are accessible via MARTA, if we knew where to go. I personally (and probably perversely) enjoy just getting on MARTA and riding around aimlessly, but for some reason I usually can't talk anybody else into doing that with me. ;)