New Years Resolutions

[blixa]

ohhh, i really want to go to new mexico. heard it's all types of amazing.

[bright lights, big city]

hope you like the color brown.

[alvarezbassist17]

racist

[blixa]

i was going to say, 'what do you mean?' but i understand now. and rest assured, the whole time i was in america i was only hit on and approached by african-americans. i was snubbed by everyone else.

[poofing acid]

[blixa]

just saying how it was. i saw so many attractive hispanic guys and they were all focused on my sister, who didn't even notice them. she was too busy buying shoes and make up all the time.

nothing beat the hot orthodox jews in skokie though.

[Variable]

Yeah, my parents are starting up an account there.  You do need at least 25k though.  What else would you like to know?

Gay.  I just noticed this post.  I do have some money saved up.  But not 25K to just invest.  I should have figured when their min for gold investment was 10K.

Wow... What are you gonna study ? And what are you planning on doing after that ?

Well like most noobs to college I don't exactly know 100% for sure.  But currently my end goal is med school.  Although I'm taking a serious look at law school because I think it fits my personality very well. 

But currently the plan is to move back to New Mexico and get a job in one of the local Emergency Rooms there like I had before I joined the Navy.  The post 911 G.I. Bill pays 100% tuition plus a monthly housing allowance that will more than cover rent and bills and all that.  So I'm pretty set as far as all that goes. 

I might also move to Texas to go to school because I have friends and family there too.  I recently visited the campus of TCU and really liked it.  I also found out that the guy/girl ratio is literally 59/41% so thats a pretty big upside too.

Come to MN, yo!  It's only sort of cold and our new governor is only sort of socialist.  Then we can work on our book: "A College Kid's Guide to Libertarianism"

What school would I go to? 

And MN is REALLY fucking cold dude.  I'm not a puss, but I don't know if I'm down for that.  My GF for sure isn't.

But I'm down to write the book anyways.  I have actually just entered the beginning phases of writing a book.  It's about why "conservative republicans" and "Christians" should support the legalization of Marijuana.  As in if they really are what they say they are, they would be the ones leading the activism to get it legalized.  Or pretty much I'm going to make a case that legalizing pot is the Christian thing to do.  I think it's going to be really good if I can actually produce it.  I might hit you up for some help here and there.

ohhh, i really want to go to new mexico. heard it's all types of amazing.

Yes I love New Mexico.  It's home for me.  I'm from Albuquerque although you're probably thinking about areas more like Santa Fe or our really beautiful rural areas like Choma or Ruiodoso.  It really is a unique place though.
Come visit me some time.  I have a girl friend though (who is mexican ironically to the above conversation) so you're just going to have to control yourself if you do come visit   Come during the balloon fiesta, its really cool

[blixa]

i'll try to not rip your clothes off when you come near hahaha now you got me googling the ballon fiesta.

[alvarezbassist17]

Yeah, my parents are starting up an account there.  You do need at least 25k though.  What else would you like to know?

Gay.  I just noticed this post.  I do have some money saved up.  But not 25K to just invest.  I should have figured when their min for gold investment was 10K.

Wow... What are you gonna study ? And what are you planning on doing after that ?

Well like most noobs to college I don't exactly know 100% for sure.  But currently my end goal is med school.  Although I'm taking a serious look at law school because I think it fits my personality very well. 

But currently the plan is to move back to New Mexico and get a job in one of the local Emergency Rooms there like I had before I joined the Navy.  The post 911 G.I. Bill pays 100% tuition plus a monthly housing allowance that will more than cover rent and bills and all that.  So I'm pretty set as far as all that goes. 

I might also move to Texas to go to school because I have friends and family there too.  I recently visited the campus of TCU and really liked it.  I also found out that the guy/girl ratio is literally 59/41% so thats a pretty big upside too.

Come to MN, yo!  It's only sort of cold and our new governor is only sort of socialist.  Then we can work on our book: "A College Kid's Guide to Libertarianism"

What school would I go to? 

And MN is REALLY fucking cold dude.  I'm not a puss, but I don't know if I'm down for that.  My GF for sure isn't.

But I'm down to write the book anyways.  I have actually just entered the beginning phases of writing a book.  It's about why "conservative republicans" and "Christians" should support the legalization of Marijuana.  As in if they really are what they say they are, they would be the ones leading the activism to get it legalized.  Or pretty much I'm going to make a case that legalizing pot is the Christian thing to do.  I think it's going to be really good if I can actually produce it.  I might hit you up for some help here and there.

The U of M is actually a pretty good school as far as colleges go.  And it isn't thaaaat cold. We got up to a whole 7 degrees yesterday!

I'm interested in your take on that and would totally help out. Been doin a lot of thinkin about Christianity lately?

[Inkblades]

- Make a New Years Resolution list

Oh, wait...shit.

[Variable]

i'll try to not rip your clothes off when you come near hahaha now you got me googling the balloon fiesta.

It goes down in October.  It's actually pretty cool.  Not really if you live there though because literally hundreds of thousands of people poor into Albuquerque over the course of it and make traffic really bad.  But its pretty cool to wake up and look out at the sky and literally only be able to see a wall of hot air balloons. 

Yeah, my parents are starting up an account there.  You do need at least 25k though.  What else would you like to know?

Gay.  I just noticed this post.  I do have some money saved up.  But not 25K to just invest.  I should have figured when their min for gold investment was 10K.

Wow... What are you gonna study ? And what are you planning on doing after that ?

Well like most noobs to college I don't exactly know 100% for sure.  But currently my end goal is med school.  Although I'm taking a serious look at law school because I think it fits my personality very well. 

But currently the plan is to move back to New Mexico and get a job in one of the local Emergency Rooms there like I had before I joined the Navy.  The post 911 G.I. Bill pays 100% tuition plus a monthly housing allowance that will more than cover rent and bills and all that.  So I'm pretty set as far as all that goes. 

I might also move to Texas to go to school because I have friends and family there too.  I recently visited the campus of TCU and really liked it.  I also found out that the guy/girl ratio is literally 59/41% so that's a pretty big upside too.

Come to MN, yo!  It's only sort of cold and our new governor is only sort of socialist.  Then we can work on our book: "A College Kid's Guide to Libertarianism"

What school would I go to? 

And MN is REALLY fucking cold dude.  I'm not a puss, but I don't know if I'm down for that.  My GF for sure isn't.

But I'm down to write the book anyways.  I have actually just entered the beginning phases of writing a book.  It's about why "conservative republicans" and "Christians" should support the legalization of Marijuana.  As in if they really are what they say they are, they would be the ones leading the activism to get it legalized.  Or pretty much I'm going to make a case that legalizing pot is the Christian thing to do.  I think it's going to be really good if I can actually produce it.  I might hit you up for some help here and there.

The U of M is actually a pretty good school as far as colleges go.  And it isn't thaaaat cold. We got up to a whole 7 degrees yesterday!

I'm interested in your take on that and would totally help out. Been doin a lot of thinkin about Christianity lately?

Yeah UNM isn't bad.  Its just that I don't have to pay a dollar for tuition.  So I might as well go to an expensive ass private school with a rep for being REALLY good if I can.  And no, as far as for real cold goes.  Albuquerque isn't all that bad.  But it's worse than Cali, where I currently reside. 

And no.  I haven't been thinking about Christianity much lately.  I was just driving to San Diego and started thinking about how pot would probably be legal if it wasn't for the "conservatives" and "Christians" in the country.  I'm lumping Mormons and all the little Jesus worshiping off shoots into "Christian" just for the sake of simplicity.  To me, it seems that they are the largest group trying to keep pot illegal mainly for "moral" reasons. 

So then I started thinking about how if these "conservative republicans" really were conservative republicans, they would actually support legalizing weed because that = more freedom, less government spending, less government control, a new market for revenue and entrepreneurism, and a smaller government if we got rid of the DEA or at least part of it because of making pot legal.  Or, Legalizing pot goes right in order with the republican belief system.

Then, people might say that all that is well and good, but they want it to stay illegal for moral reasons.  To which I think there is a very good argument that it is more immoral to keep pot illegal than to make it legal.  Even under the pretense that smoking pot is immoral.  We create so much more crime and criminals by making it illegal that the ends do not justify the means.  That and making it illegal really hasn't stopped anyone from using it.  Therefore the actual philosophical statement of making pot illegal is not worth the back blow of drug cartels and sending fairly innocent people to prison and corrupting them further as a result of the system.

It's obviously more complex than that.  but there it is in a nut shell anyways. 

[blixa]

i don't have to go to new mexico for a balloon fiesta because canberra has something exactly the same.

AND I'M BITING MY NAILS AGAIN. it started today when i was in the car and i tasted blood and realised i was biting my nail. i can't do this anymore.

[bright lights, big city]

just go stick 'em up your butt, who wants to bite nails that taste like poopy?

[Variable]

i don't have to go to new mexico for a balloon fiesta because canberra has something exactly the same.

AND I'M BITING MY NAILS AGAIN. it started today when i was in the car and i tasted blood and realised i was biting my nail. i can't do this anymore.

I don't know.  It's pretty much all that Albuquerque has to claim, so let me have this one please.


Did I already suggest that you guy gloves?  Or you should just start taping your fingers or something. 

[blixa]

new mexico has some of the best photographers. that place was kind of huge when i was in photographies theories because, artistically, it held so many possibilities. even its name. it kind of implied a place that wasn't so american. i still believe that canadian photographers are much better. they are so underrated though.

news update on my nails, i just painted them. i realised that when they are freshly painted i spend more time bedazzled by them rather than biting them. i plan on doing two things this year - giving up potato chips of all sort and not biting my nails anymore.

[Variable]

New Mexico is still pretty fucking American.  I mean it's a lot different than New England, but that's a cultural difference in the South West as a whole.  It's about the exact same as Arizona and Cali.  Just without a beach and overpopulation. 

So did your nail painting trick work?  You should sprinkle some diamonds on your nails too.  That would be pretty bedazzling

[blixa]

when i hear the words 'new' and 'mexico', i don't think AMERICA! i only know new mexico through the photographs i've seen in theories class. it could be really farking american. i don't know. but if it's like california then i'll probably not like it so much. i didn't enjoy california when i was there. i've been to the midwest. i really liked it there.

nails in bad condition. i'm still holding out that i will be able to not bite them. i sort of bit my thumbnail tonight. this is really hard.

[Variable]

Well there are some pretty unique things about New Mexico that I guess you could classify as un American.  like the Native American reservations and culture out there.  The Zuni Indians have a lot of petroglyphs that a lot of people study because they think it's documentation about aliens visiting us thousands of years ago.  And a place called chaco canyon is really cool.  Just a huge Indian Ruin out in the middle of no where.  It was a big city way back when so its really cool to go see.  It's so secluded it just makes it beautiful.

Also New Mexican food is definitely different  than mexican food.  And its really good.  Green chili is a huge part of the culture.  New Mexico is the only place in the U.S. ( and to my knowledge the world ) that grows green chili is mass.  You can literally get green chili cheese burgers at McDonalds.  Green Chili bagels at Einstein's.  Most people put in on their pizza.  It's everywhere.  And if you have never been to New Mexico, then chances are you have never eaten green chili.  A lot of people think they have had it before but are mistaken.  People also think I'm talking about Jalapeños and stuff like that.  And Green Chili is WAY different than all that.

As I'm sure you know, there is some really beautiful scenery in the state.  There are so many wide open areas and the landscape changes so much depending on where you go in the state.  I live in Albuquerque where we have some large mountains on the east side of our city.  On the Albuquerque side of the mountain it looks very much like a high altitude desert.  Not a lot of green at all except for the area right by the rio grande.  Lots of tumble weeds, rocks, and sand.  That sounds horrible, but its actually a beautiful city IMO.  But then you go to the east side of those mountains and you would swear you were in Colorado.  Big green evergreens all over the mountains.  Lots of wildlife and little creeks from the snow runoff.  It's beautiful.  Then I could keep going talking about all these different landscapes just about an hour or so away depending on which direction you go.  But Ill spare you.  The last thing though is the Sky, its SO BLUE.  There is no humidity and little pollution to block our view of the sky so it is just a really intense blue. 

But yeah.  Other than a few little cultural things that we adopted from the Native American tribes and the Mexicans who  came over too, New Mexico is a lot like any other state in the South West.  Just significantly less populated. I understand what you meant about the name though.  To be perfectly honest, there are a lot of Americans who don't know that New Mexico is even a state.  THATS embarrassing  for the US.  People literally have asked how I speak such good English if I'm from New Mexico.  I swear, one time I was asked if I ride a donkey to school, and they were being dead serious.  So yeah, you're not the only one that thinks New Mexico doesn't sound very Americanish 

[blixa]

i love native american culture. it's so intense. a friend who i met in my honours class drove route 66 through new mexico in a rented car and she took photos. they were a beautiful documentation. she's very architecturally aware in her photography so they were spectacular photos. we ended up talking after class that same day and she said that new mexico is a place that i should go to. she recommended i hire a car and just explore. she drove all around america and the only state that made an impact on her was new mexico. she definitely sparked my interest.

my american cousin was introducing me to her friend and she said, "this is my cousin. she's from australia" and her friend was like, "does she speak english?"

[Variable]

lol oh wow.  It's crazy how ignorant some people are.  And I didn't know you were from Australia, very cool.  Ironically to the conversation, I have always really wanted to go to Australia

But yeah dude, you should definitely check New Mexico out one day.  If I'm still living there by the time you get around to getting out there, I will help you out as a little tour guide or help with transportation if you need it.  I definitely would either do the research first, or know that you were going to meet with someone who knows the area though.  Because NM can also be really lame if you don't know where to go or what to look for.