Okay, who did I see at the Davis Square T station this evening around 8:10 with a button on her backpack that said "Livejournal Addict"? I had to do a double take!
Whoa...you're from NC? Where? I grew up in Henderson, went to high school and grad school in Raleigh, college in Greensboro and lived in Chapel Hill for three years before moving to Boston.
I don't consider myself a Carolinian much any more. Boston's been my home for 10 years, and my immediate family doesn't live there anymore and I changed schools a lot, so I didn't have a lot of friends in one place to come back to. I do miss the food, though! It's a little easier to get grits up here, but just try ordering biscuits and gravy or a sweetened ice tea around here. Sheesh.
I was born in Raleigh, but we moved to Charlotte in the first year or two of my life, so I don't remember it :) I lived in Charlotte until I was 12, when we moved over the border to Rock Hill, SC. I was in Hartsville, SC, for a year, and then 1993-1994 I spent in Cary, with my aunt, uncle, and cousins, going to Cary High and taking a class or two at NCSU. A lot of my relatives still live in Cary/Raleigh/Durham; in fact, I'm flying down tomorrow.
I've been in Boston for the past five years but North Carolina will always be home. All my family still lives there so I have an excuse to visit.
I know what you mean about the food. The first time I went home after being up here for several months I had my mom made all my favorite (fried) foods. I was sick as a dog by the second day because my body couldn't handle the grease :-).
Oh man, I'm so jealous. I'm dying for a burger, fries and milkshake from Char-grill! Have a great visit to NC!
Last time I was there, my dad drove me out towards Halifax, NC, (where he did historic excavation work for the state many years ago) and on the way we stopped at a mom and pop kitchen and had fried okra and fried chicken livers. *drool*
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Date: 2004-04-02 06:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-04-02 07:00 pm (UTC)I don't consider myself a Carolinian much any more. Boston's been my home for 10 years, and my immediate family doesn't live there anymore and I changed schools a lot, so I didn't have a lot of friends in one place to come back to. I do miss the food, though! It's a little easier to get grits up here, but just try ordering biscuits and gravy or a sweetened ice tea around here. Sheesh.
I was born in Raleigh, but we moved to Charlotte in the first year or two of my life, so I don't remember it :) I lived in Charlotte until I was 12, when we moved over the border to Rock Hill, SC. I was in Hartsville, SC, for a year, and then 1993-1994 I spent in Cary, with my aunt, uncle, and cousins, going to Cary High and taking a class or two at NCSU. A lot of my relatives still live in Cary/Raleigh/Durham; in fact, I'm flying down tomorrow.
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Date: 2004-04-02 07:11 pm (UTC)I know what you mean about the food. The first time I went home after being up here for several months I had my mom made all my favorite (fried) foods. I was sick as a dog by the second day because my body couldn't handle the grease :-).
Oh man, I'm so jealous. I'm dying for a burger, fries and milkshake from Char-grill! Have a great visit to NC!
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Date: 2004-04-02 07:35 pm (UTC)