🏷️ e:strip

At this rate, the population density at Niagara Square will soon outstrip the heart of Chandni Chowk.

@mike, How come you don't do such outrageously spooky literary narratives anymore?

Guaranteed. I mean, just take a look at the overall vigilante tough-as-only-a-class-monitor-pet-can-be attitude of whatever the hell this thing is.

by a rude network outage, I was going to post this poem. But now that the E:strip chat has revived, I guess the poem is somewhat out of context. Regardless, I seldom waste my poetic efforts at drama.

So endure, you must.

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So, farewell then, (e:strip) chat.

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So.
Farewell then
E:strip Chat

You were
a good
friend of mine

Figures. You
And I were
usually ignored

Except that
Unlike me you
don't go to grad school

@jim perhaps
realized this
and spoke

But mostly
it was
a lonely soak

The other woman
does have
more curves.

But then Keith's mom
thinks you
might revive again.



With apologies to EJ Thribb (17.5)

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I was out grocery shopping and guess whom I heard honking at me while I was crossing the road?



Heh. That was funny, @enknot. :)

I am completely copying @fellyconnelly's *really cool** greetings (@fellyconnelly #48273) but here's to @jim! Wish you a wonderful year ahead, Jim!!


With compliments from @james!

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*And as you might recall, imitation is the best form of flattery.

I will be starting my THIRD year today at (e:strip). That is SO crazy. I didn't expect it all to go so fast! In the two years that whizzed by I have made SO many random friends around Buffalo thanks to (e:strip).

I lived in Rochester for the same span of time. I got to know everyone in my department, a bunch of people around the university and probably around 75% people on my street - most of whom were on wait-lists for some nursing home or the other and were somehow always discussing wood for funeral caskets. Oh, and there was this huge dog named "Useless" (I kid you not!). I was convinced that his sole motive for surviving was to bark at me as loudly as he could, day or night, summer or winter and drive me insane or deaf or both. Before coming here, I thought I would spend my entire graduate life going deaf and off the rocker, cheering waitlist promotions, and of course, debating the finer points of oak versus cedar six feet under.

I can't tell you how surprised I still am that you are all not bargaining casket prices with funeral homes or throwing cake celebrations for the hood, not on your birthday, but on random days throughout the year because your number on the waitlist just went up from 56 to 52 as three blokes in between died the week before. Instead, you are discussing relationships (whoa!), weddings, kids, jobs, sims, food, hiking, rollerblade derbies, zoos and totally wild whatnots! That is a massive and welcome change. I am astonished that you are not decrepit Mr. Jones and that your foot is really quite far away from dangling over a freshly dug-out crypt at Mt. Hope. No one starts a conversation with "Back in the war" or talks about spa benefits at nursing homes.

Maybe I was not in the right part of Rochester or maybe the population there is really quite significantly decrepit. Whatever be the case, I doubt I would have made such a unique bunch of friends (in any new city) in such a short time - almost totally unrelated to school or even the immediate hood! E:strip is a complete surprise to me even after 731 days! Yinz ROCK! :)

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