crazysouthners - Profile (original) (raw)

on 23 July 2004 (#3916634)

Seattle, Washington, United States

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This started out as joke, as a coping mechanism that included laughter, half-baked rants, bonding, and finding self-approval between a really good friend and new found Sis and I, both Southerners, misplaced.

Reading my journal today, I realized there was another person in my friend's list whom I adore. We went to the same college in South Carolina and we both left.

So, I wanted to start a community based on the name Joy and I came up with for ourselves... "The Crazy Southerners." Knowing Joy makes Seattle, our home, less scary and more friendly to me.

The process of being a Southerner and moving to a different geographic location where the rules are totally flipped can be devestating. On one hand, you are happy to be away, but on the other hand, you miss home like crazy -- no matter what junk you may or may not have been said about it.

I would like for this community to serve as a place for laughter, hijinks, hilarity, sadness, and rage being a Southerner living outside of the South.

Often, I tell people I didn't know how Southern I was until I left the South.

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*making it up as I go...*

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