When I first moved into North Carolina for college, I realized that I had to learn a new language to fit in.
Kind of like living in S. Florida, if you don't speak Spanish, you won't get service in some stores. I never did get to buy a Fedora.
But this language is my own, in another form. I know I have prattled on about the south and how I have come to love living here, but the language is what it's all about.
...so when I was first here, I was walking with a friend to class and I said to her, 'I'm ill.'
'As a hornet?'
'???'
And that's where I am today. Ill, but not as a hornet. I have had a bad cold for moving on ten days now. I can't sleep. I have coughed up approximately 1/16th of my lower lungs. My stomach muscles are shredded. My nose is being remodeled into a slightly pointier schnoz due to the constant blowing of said schnoz. I mean, I have gone through seven boxes of tissues. Seriously. And now my ear is clogged.
Ten days. And no sign it is abating.
Now I'm ill as a hornet.
Kind of like living in S. Florida, if you don't speak Spanish, you won't get service in some stores. I never did get to buy a Fedora.
But this language is my own, in another form. I know I have prattled on about the south and how I have come to love living here, but the language is what it's all about.
...so when I was first here, I was walking with a friend to class and I said to her, 'I'm ill.'
'As a hornet?'
'???'
And that's where I am today. Ill, but not as a hornet. I have had a bad cold for moving on ten days now. I can't sleep. I have coughed up approximately 1/16th of my lower lungs. My stomach muscles are shredded. My nose is being remodeled into a slightly pointier schnoz due to the constant blowing of said schnoz. I mean, I have gone through seven boxes of tissues. Seriously. And now my ear is clogged.
Ten days. And no sign it is abating.
Now I'm ill as a hornet.
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