Tonight, after my last house, I noticed some lighting all across the Eastern horizon. I really miss lightning, so even though I couldn't hear it I decided to drive out to a unlighted country field area and sit on the roof of my car for a while. I looked at all the stars, watched the lightning in the distance and just enjoyed the scenery.
I don't really get why people always say that the country is more peaceful than the city. I mean, obviously, there are fewer people and such, but the people in the country can be just as obnoxious as city people. There are encredibly loud trucks, people blaring their music, cows and roosters doing their cow and chicken thing, and dogs everywhere that bark anytime you come anywhere near them, which sets off a chain of dogs parking all across the countryside -- just to name a few things.
I'd have to say that country is maybe even a little more annoying to me, because the noise and distractions aren't constant. In a town or city there is definately a constant din, but it is relatively constant so it fades into a background. In the country the din is made up of bugs and frogs and anything else that makes noise is different, new, and attention grabbing.
Oh! Another thing that is very not peaceful about the country is the nosiness of the people who live there. Nearly everyone in the area that I am working is fairly bored, and I am quite an unusual site (people constantly note that I have a Jeep (read: unFord -- fortunately it is not Japanese. They'd hold that against me here) with Florida plates.) I have been informed many times though that the people here are pretty much nosy about everything, which is funny to me because people tell me all the time that they don't really know their neighbors when I ask them if the neighbors have kids.
OK, that rant really had nothing to do with the starry night thing at all. I guess it was sort of related, because I really like the country -- I just don't really like the people that live there so much. Isolation seems to have a negative effect on people.
Posted by David at June 13, 2004 12:15 AMFunny that you should mention the country, as I just spent some time out at the country myself at my aunt and uncle's house. I didn't find it noisy at all (it was downright quiet) but I did get the sense that one person's business could soon become everyone's business through word-of-mouth. Which could be good or bad, depending on the business.
Anyway, I think this the first time I've actually posted in your blog, despite reading it for months. Hope you don't mind. ;)
And just so we're even, feel free to read mine at: http://www.livejournal.com/users/lizzydragon84/
Posted by: Elizabeth at June 13, 2004 02:49 PM