it's official!

[ivyology]

I will be spending my year in Claremont, New Hampshire, representing AVAP at the Women's Supportive Services of Sullivan County.

There's not a whole lot in Claremont, and it's the second poorest county in the state. But I figure that has to be good for cost of living, and I didn't spend most of my life living in the middle of nowhere and not learn a few things about appreciating out-of-the-way places.

J will be happy when I tell her, since it's only half an hour from Dartmouth. Which will likely be where I do all my librarying, since even if they don't grant outsider cards I'll have an "in".

My mother and I are going TOMORROW to look for a place for me to live! I personally could do with putting it off a few more days, but she's adamant and I guess it'll be good to get it out of the way.

Craziness, all 'round.

But yeah, Claremont was my best interview, so I think I'm pleased, although Keene was good too, and that made me very much in favor of the crisis centers in general over the prosecutor's offices. Just a vibe, and the feeling that the crisis centers are way more about direct service, which is why I'm doing Americorps in the first place, so. I get to be in court everyday, anyway, so that's cool.

Anyway, I think I'm excited, although now nervousness is setting in, but - mostly excited, really. It will be good to be on my own. It's good that things have worked out despite earlier setbacks. I'm excited to REALLY live on my own for the first time.

Still worried about potentially no cable. Wonder if I can guilt trip my father into paying the bill? That's assuming wherever I end up even has cable, of course.

Sigh.

Comments

[souvenant.livejournal.com]

[ivyenglish.livejournal.com]

That means a lot, coming from you. :)

[milena-shibush.livejournal.com]

Good luck! You'll do fabulous. Look out world!

[ivyenglish.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[grapefruitmoon.livejournal.com]

i live right across the river from claremont... in fact, i was there last night watching a movie. it's rather odd to hear that people are actually moving *to* this area.

anyway, if there's anything you'd like to know about the area - feel free to ask. :)

[ivyenglish.livejournal.com]

And I'm reminded once more of what a small world it is. ;)

And... there's a river? Heh. Shows how much I know about the area.

[grapefruitmoon.livejournal.com]

there are two rivers in claremont.

there's the sugar river. nothing interesting about that.

the river i was referring to is the connecticut river, and on the other side of that is the ever more lovely state of vermont.

you will soon learn about how vermonters feel about new hampshire. and vice versa.

don't you ever dare say the two states are the same thing. you'll be shot.

[ivyenglish.livejournal.com]

hee! I wouldn't dream of it. I was educated quite a bit just by driving through Vermont, and then contrasting it with the drive through New Hampshire... my mother and I were all, "hey, have you seen a billboard since we entered Vermont? no? how about a McDonald's? hmmm..." and then in New Hampshire we're all, "whoa, civilization! and people riding motorcycles without helmets! when they say live free or die, they really MEAN it..."

But that's just my own ignorant, outsider's perspective. *g*

[grapefruitmoon.livejournal.com]

billboards are in fact illegal in vermont. there are mcdonald's-es tho. you have to drive into the actual towns to find them, but there's one in windsor, one in springfield, and one in brattleboro.

there is not one in montpelier. we are the only state capital sans mcdonald's. we are very proud.

and we really hate that "live free or die" thing. we get a lot of mileage out of that one.

[ladygrey.livejournal.com]

claremont! o the neglected nether region of NH we learned so much about in high school american studies... DO let me know what it's like!

[ivyenglish.livejournal.com]

You actually *learned* things about Claremont? Didn't seem all that exciting to *me*...

And how about I skip telling you, and you just come visit me instead when you're back from Maine? I'll make tea and everything. :)