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R and I are currently vacationing in NC for a week, and it's been...weird, exciting, and simultaneously a clusterfuck all at once. So far we've had to deal with one canceled flight, one rescheduled flight, two rental car reschedulings, actually GETTING to the car rental lot and then having an agent accidentally rent out a (clearly running, already rented) car to someone else with all of our bags in it during the three minutes it took for us to sign something inside... but now, finally, we're here and not in fucking tundra-like New England and it's nice! (We got our bags back. And a super nice '15 Chrysler with free gas to rent courtesy of the rental company nearly giving away all of our possessions to a random stranger.) I honestly don't even know if I've been inside of a car this nice before, let alone driven one, and it's not like my own car is an eyesore or anything. But anyway, yeah. I'm just thankful nothing else weird / inconveniencing has happened but I guess we have a week left to see if that pans out.
It's only been a day yet but it's been interesting being back in the Triangle. One thing I've immediately noticed is that there seem to be more visibly queer people walking around. I still feel like people are staring at me/us--I was used to getting lots of stares when I was still pre-T and more ambiguous looking--but maybe it's just some sort of paranoid psychic holdover from years ago rather than actual reality.
Maybe things are getting better since Amendment One was struck down, but I guess it's hard to say without having lived here for a couple of years. I wouldn't want to move back and sacrifice our current comfort in MA, but there is a definite je ne sais quois about NC in general, and particularly its LGBTQ community and dealings with community activism. It still just feels very lacking in the part of the northeast where we live, but I guess it's because people here have had to fight harder for more basic rights or something. I'm sure it's a lot of things, really. Maybe I'll be able to put my finger on it one day.
It's only been a day yet but it's been interesting being back in the Triangle. One thing I've immediately noticed is that there seem to be more visibly queer people walking around. I still feel like people are staring at me/us--I was used to getting lots of stares when I was still pre-T and more ambiguous looking--but maybe it's just some sort of paranoid psychic holdover from years ago rather than actual reality.
Maybe things are getting better since Amendment One was struck down, but I guess it's hard to say without having lived here for a couple of years. I wouldn't want to move back and sacrifice our current comfort in MA, but there is a definite je ne sais quois about NC in general, and particularly its LGBTQ community and dealings with community activism. It still just feels very lacking in the part of the northeast where we live, but I guess it's because people here have had to fight harder for more basic rights or something. I'm sure it's a lot of things, really. Maybe I'll be able to put my finger on it one day.