Fun bits

[cjsmith]

It's weird when I go on a fairly brief trip and after I get home I start *missing* stuff.

I want to wander into someplace and hear someone who is paying just about zero attention to me or to anyone else call out nasally, "Irashaimasseeeeeeeeeee."

I want to watch five passengers AND all their luggage for three days fit jovially into a cab and zoom off.

I want mochi. At least that's what my coworker tells me they are called. The bean paste things.

I want to square dance to someone who says "reft arremande".

I want to get kissed on the head by a dragon.

I want to ride a subway with two full-color flat-screen displays over each door, one running ads and one spelling out the station name three different ways and diagramming how many minutes to the following stations and showing a picture of exactly which cars, in this next station, will pull up next to stairways.

I want prewarmed moist hand towels presented to me before each meal.

I want to watch a couple of friends greet each other, having a brief but animated conversation while bobbing up and down between about thirty and forty-five degrees off the vertical -- never once standing all the way up -- looking happy as clams.

I want to coax a semi-wild cat into letting me scritch him.

Ah, travel. Sometimes I recognize just a few more of the good bits after I've returned home.

Comments

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

I wish you could come and call a square dance here :) (heck, i wish they *had* square dancing here!)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I wish I could too! Where do you live these days? It is very likely someplace I have never been. :-)

(I'm still a little bummed you didn't wind up at Google, by the way. It would have been cool to be able to see you in person from time to time!)

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

Bangalore - your job might make it here before you do (:

(And yeah, I'm still a bit bummed about the google thing too)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I LOVE that first line -- succinct and beautiful! :-)

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

thanks (: needless to say, i'd much rather see you!