Where are you?

June 5th, 2003

Time for a question! It’s simple. I’m mihow. I currently sit at a gray desk in Washington, D.C., U.S.A. To the fine folks who leave comments here regularly and bring me daily fits of joy and laughter, I was thinking it’d be nice to know where it is you write from. So, where? Just a curiosity, really. I don’t want to scare anyone. And the lurkers? I guess you fine folks can just do what it is you’re good at, and say nothing.

Edited to add: Where do you write from? Help me improve my geography.

(I was trying for a map of the world but instead I’ll just appear entirely nationalistic and put up the U.S.A! [and Canada, who is apparently shrinking]).

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  1. Missy said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    Mars.

  2. Missy said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    I mean, just NE of the Capitol in WDC.

  3. mihow said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    You’re a hot martian.

  4. Megan said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    Chicago. West Loop.

  5. Lake said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    I’m a quasi-lurker, but…
    from a fake wood desk in Harrisburg, PA.

  6. mihow said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    See! I did not know that! :]

    And you’re not a lurker. You’re a main character, dearie.

    I grew up in New Cumberland, PA. I love Pennsytuckey.

  7. moia said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    at 17th & M in Washington, D.C., in a wooden cube originally designed for typewriters 30 yrs ago.

    i can not help but to but in and pipe up. :)

  8. nico said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    PHILTHADELPHIA!

  9. mihow said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    Cubes suck.

    PENNSYLTUCKEY EN LA CASA!

  10. freakgirl said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    I write from a desk crammed into the corner of my guestroom in Somerset, New Jersey. I am currently still in my pajamas.

  11. Megan said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    Me too! No jobs rule! ;)

  12. BSmith said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    From Washington DC…in a non-descript office building at 15th and F…

  13. girl27 said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    I’m in Waterloo, Ontario, just a wee drive from Toronto.

    (Canada represent!)

  14. mihow said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    damn dude, you’re my neighbor.

  15. GotJesus? said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    I’m at work for a toy company in East Aurora, NY (about 15 miles southeast of Buffalo). This pic was taken from my office window last winter … (pic is on my dad’s blog/site)

    http://www.fleetstreet.org/images/DeerCharlie.jpg

  16. mihow said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    Girl27, I wish you were closer. You make me laugh muchly.

    (That last comment about the neighbor, was directed at Bsmith).

  17. BSmith said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    Look on the bright side everyone…you could be from here…

    http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/custom/fringe/sfl-64snakeballs,0,821286.story?coll=sfla-news-fringe

  18. mihow said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    GotJesus, Super image. Thanks!

    Cold up yonder, eh?

  19. Lake said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    You’re kidding!! I live in New Cumberland!! Where did you grow up?? Does scbob still live here?

  20. Lake said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    And, they sell the State College sticky buns in our local Giant!!

  21. GotJesus? said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    Only 8 months a year.

  22. mihow said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    ha! crazy!

    We lived in…. crap! what was it called? Timber Ridge? I think that sounds right. I went to Fairview Elementary School. (Moved before high school years).

    My family lives in State College. (We moved to North Carolina for a bit and then back up to PA again).

  23. calvo said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    me, I type from a lovely beige cubicle in an office on dc’s capitol hill.

  24. girl27 said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    Eees not so far, Mihow. You and Toby (and Freakgirl and Megan and Lake and GotJesus? and, well, everyone)will have to visit the big city one day, and I’ll take you out for drinks. Then you can laugh directly AT me! :)

    ::taps fingers on desk, waiting for the DC invite…::

  25. girl27 said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    crap. look at all that wasted space.

  26. nifkin said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    ANNAPOLIS REPRAZENT!

  27. chandler said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    NYC, from a door being used as a desk, cheap bastards. Megan, where about in the West loop?

  28. tobyjoe said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    at least you have the really cheap version of the Aeron, chandler, even if you are still trapped in someone’s silly dotcom fantasy world where RSI and CTS are romanticized as battle scars…

    i’m in adam’s morgan, in a robe, cussing the world because the coffee shop is AT LEAST 300 yards from here and that just isn’t right.

  29. Debra said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    Faux mahogany desk in an office with a god awful glass door in Houston, Texas

  30. Marjon said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    Eurotrash present as off now! I’m writing from the Netherlands and I am at work, but about to go home, because my working day is over. That’s timezones for ya.

  31. Megan said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    Chandler, on Monroe & Ashland. Did you live here?

  32. mihow said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    Texas! WOOP! I want to visit Texas some day.

    And there’s someone from Europe too! Wooohoooo!

    Any asian folks out there?

  33. Debra said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    Texas can be really pretty, but it’s also hot. Hot, Hot, Hot, Hot. The heat sucks. I can’t wait for vacation.

  34. mihow said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    I bet it’s not raining there. I bet if it does it doesn’t do it for 27 days straight. GOD DAMNIT!

  35. Lana said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    Representing the O dot – writing from Ottawa, Canada not the Illinois one…

  36. chandler said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    megan, indeed i did. I went to UIC and lived there for a while, it still feels like home.

  37. mike said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    NO SLEEP TIL BROOKLYN.

    Yo was up, I live on the mean streets of Cobble Hill Brooklyn. Let me send a shout out to the Kings Coünty Crüe, PEACE! Fresh for 2003 you suckahs.

    Doors for desks? Chandler you must work for a non-profit or something.

  38. Debra said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    No, Mihow it isn’t raining here, but we are in a drought. We’ve had one rain in the last 45 days.

  39. tobyjoe said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    “Chandler you must work for a non-profit or something.”

    I will be laughing all the way to the coffee shop over that one.

  40. lyndsy said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    Another lurker here. Chicago!

  41. mike said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    yeah that was written for you.

    i was crying when i wrote it.

  42. mihow said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    k. you Canadian folks may have to correct me. Not sure I know where you are. So if I circle the wrong area, please flog me.

  43. Lake said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    I’m still enjoying “what a small world” news! When was the last time you were back here? (Now I can’t stop singing that damn song, either.)
    Girl27, I’d invite you and everyone else to come here to have a drink, but, as Mihow can attest—you’d be REALLY bored!

  44. mihow said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    girl27, I can’t find me no Waterloo.

  45. scbob said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    AccuWeather in beautiful State College PENNSYLVANIA – there is no “tuckey” here!

    Lake, I was never bored in Coakley’s.

  46. mihow said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    oh yes! Politti’s Pizza YUM! Eat there. For me. Yes.

  47. girl27 said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    Mihow, try looking for Kitchener. We’re sometimes called Kitchener-Waterloo. But us Waterloo folks hate Kitchener. Nothing but dirty bums there.

    Lana,I think Ottawa must only be boring if you live there. Looks like heaps of fun from over here. You’ve got Starling, Kathleen Edwards, and a cool Tulip Festival! (A good friend of mine just played the festival a few weeks ago..)

  48. a* said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    i

  49. Megan said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    Girl27, I used to drive past you on my way to Toronto from Detroit. woop!

  50. Lake said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    Very good point scbob!! You can’t beat being able to walk to a place with Guinness on tap! Or a movie theatre where you can get a ticket, popcorn and soda all for less than $10. Maybe its not so bad here after all…

  51. Mike the Mick said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    Another lurker, from Indianapolis.

    Can I make a couple of comments on lurking? Quite awhile back you said something about “damn lurkers” that made me feel a bit like a Peeping Tom (kinda true, I confess).

    But I lurk only because I have little or nothing to contribute/relate to your life situation (dumb phrase).

    I lead a very different life than you (much older) and find your life, and comments thereof, a whole bundle of interesting, poignant, funny, silly, profound, more.

    Strange this blog thing.

    Good luck with house…relationship…life.

    Mike the Mick

  52. calvo said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    mihow:
    ”…put up the U.S.A! [and Canada, who is apparently shrinking]”

    Damn, I hate when that happens. Plus, it looks as if a blue sock got mixed in with the wash ‘cause they’re all tinged, and stuff.

  53. Henry said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    My library, cowering under stacks of books that threaten to topple, almost as far west of crummy old Chicago as I can get without falling into Iowa.

    This is what I see when I get close to town:

    http://weather.admin.niu.edu/

  54. girl27 said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    Lake, I confused you with Lana. I couldn’t understand why she thought Ottawa was boring!!

    So, nothing happens in Harrisburg? Ever?

  55. Lake said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    Nothing too exciting as long as I’ve lived here! Thank goodness Philadelphia, New York and Baltimore are close!
    There really isn’t much here at all. Its pretty, and safe, but dull as could be. But Hershey is near by—the whole town smells like chocolate!

  56. Megan said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    I went to Hershey once on a family trip out East. Loved the Hershey Kiss street lamps.

  57. chandler said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    depends on how one understands profit. if by “profit” you mean deeply rewarding and always exciting, world-a-better-place type stuff, then yes, i work at a not-for-profit :]

  58. Lake said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    They have a mock street lamp in “Chocolate World” where you can get your picture taken to look as though you are sitting on it.
    Megan I’ll be in Chicago in July for the All-Star game!

  59. scbob said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    Lake, Again, something happens there every once in a while – How about Three Mile Island? Now that was exciting. That is the reason Mihow’s younger brother is so smart. He’s radiated from birth.

  60. Megan said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    Lake, I wonder if that coincides with the 100th anniversary of Harley Davidson in Milwaukee which I’m going to. If it does, then that sucks.

  61. mihow said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    I just returned from a work, pizza party. Gonna update the map now.

  62. tobyjoe said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    right now, chandler is thinking of pizza party jokes… too bad it isn’t wednesday.

  63. mihow said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    welcome, Mike the Mick. :] feel free to comment any time you’d like.

  64. Lake said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    You all lived here when TMI melted? I see it everyday on my drive to work and always wonder what that might have been like. After 9/11 ‘they’ gave us pills to take in case of radiation exposure.
    A few years ago half of the bridge to City Island washed away – that was sort of interesting to see!
    When is the Harley celebration?
    Ooh – York, only 20 miles away, has the only Harley manufacturing plant in the country.

  65. Alias Guy said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    An second story office overlooking the glorious Target parking lot in Memphis, Tennessee…

  66. Cillabobbers said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    Yet another lurker…this one from Atlanta :)

  67. mihow said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    Georgia!

    Tennessee!

    Do I hear a Florida?

  68. Mary said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    Yet another lurker.

    I write from Richmond, Michigan, a small farm town. I feel like Mike the Mick does. ‘Cept I’m a 21 year old college student. I love reading the comments, but often have nothing to say. I find Freakgirl’s blog amusing as well.

  69. mihow said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    But everyone has something to say…

    :]

  70. grijn said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    my desk in my apt. looks out over the beautiful New Hampshire Ave in Washingon DC.. approx. The length of Meridian Hill park away from Ms.Mihow and Senor TobyJoe, both of whom I dont see enough of, but now that it is summer…

  71. Julie said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    Columbus, Ohio!

    Mihow, I missed you! I have been a little busy with a baby and I have not been able to get online!

    Would you like to see some pictures of our little one??

  72. mihow said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    OF COURSE!!!!!

  73. mihow said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    while coloring in Ohio, I thought to myself… what’s that weirdly shaped state to its right and down?

    I had to look it up. Ahhhhhh sweet, mishapen West Virginia.

  74. freakgirl said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    Mihow, this was such a neat idea. I might steal it for my blog tomorrow, if you don’t mind. Of course I shall give you proper credit.

  75. a* said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    yay!! im on/off the map! heres a map of peru…yes, we have a state called mother of god. and speaking of misshapen, ayacucho kinda looks like a rabbit…

    http://www.adonde.com/turismo/infogeneral.htm

  76. Maria said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    I lurk from a cube in the depths of 1330 Conn. Ave.

  77. Maria said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    Erm, that’s in DC ;)

  78. rachel said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    mark down one more for Brooklyn!!
    (but i grew up in Connecticut, if that helps fill out that map at all… and i think maybe i’ve lurked from there once or twice)

  79. freakgirl said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    Rachel, I lovelovelove the name of your blog.

  80. andrea said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    i know where that Target in Memphis is at!
    (or one of them anyway)

    myself—earlier, 3rd floor of the world’s most generic office building in Columbia, under an air vent freezing my ass off.
    now, home in annapolis

  81. chele said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    am i too late to play?

    i usually write from 18 stories up over downtown St. Paul MN (my house), unless i write 12 stories up over downtown Minneapolis MN (work).

  82. mihow said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    Of course you’re not too late! Actually, I think I may leave it up through tomorrow. So bring em on!

  83. Megan said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    Aw, Illinois is where Chicago is, baby doll. ;)

  84. mihow said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    you know, last night (because I don’t have enough to think about in the middle of the night) I woke up with this thought, “I FUCKED UP ILLINOIS!”

    Damn. See? I just moved you to Michigan for a day. How was it?

  85. mihow said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    And, not that it matters now because I’ve already gone and embarrassed myself, but I do actually know that Chicago is in Illinois.

  86. mihow said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    you know, last night I was watching CSI and I thought, suddenly, “I FUCKED UP SOMETHING!”

    I just moved you, Henry and Lyndsy to Michigan for a day. How was it?

    And, not that it matters now because I’ve already gone and embarrassed myself, but I promise that I do actually know that Chicago is in Illinois.

  87. katie said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    I’m writing from Laurel, Maryland.

  88. JImmy said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    Flat-iron district, Manhattan.
    I’m a pretty regular lurker.

  89. DaveJ said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    I used to write from an office that looked like Central Perk a block from the ferry dock in downtown Seattle. Now, and for the last month, I’m in a very utilitarian 1950s office building at 18th and Mass. N.W. D.C. with a view to an apartment building courtyard. Nice weather today, hopign for sunbathers.

  90. mihow said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    DaveJ, are you here to stay?

    And Damn! I was hoping to color in the State of Washington. :]

  91. Troilus said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    Malta, Malta, hells, bells and smells Malta. And extra credit to you if you can locate the place without recourse to an atlas :)

  92. mihow said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    yeah, ok. I dunno. Your url reads “dairyland” but I’m thinking you’re not in the U.S.A.

    hmmmmmm

  93. Dave J said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    Here to stay. New job. New apartment in a couple weeks. As David Bowie would say, “Traaaaaans-ition.”

    Malta is in the Mediterranean.

  94. Troilus said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    Brava! Imagine a small island about thirty or so miles south of Sicily, and, er,…there you have it.

  95. mihow said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    No shit! That’s super cool. You should send a photo….

  96. mihow said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    A photo of your view, not yourself. Sorry ‘bout that.

  97. dena said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    i lurk from inside a giant cement block in the abyss of stripmalls that is rockville, md.

  98. tobyjoe said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    ah, i remember when i considered spending my days in a giant cement block in rockville.

    thankfully i snapped out of it.

  99. Megami said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    I’m sitting at my desk which is located right next to my sliding glass door to the backyard, which is located in Toronto, Ontario. It’s sunny today. Our dollar is now worth 0.73 of your dollar. Life is good.

  100. dena said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    I’m sure there’s still a desk open back there if you change your mind, Toby.

  101. Missy said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    Megami, I just hope that my dollar is much stronger than yours and that SARS is a thing of the past when I come to your city for the film festival in September!

  102. Megami said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    Ooh! Missy, if you’re coming for that, we’ll have to meet you downtown for a coffee or a big glass of booze! Get in touch with me if you’re interested; I’d love to meet if you’re okay with that sort of thing. We will protect you from SARS.

  103. Cat said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    Hi,
    I guess you could call me a lurker as well…ugh. That sounds so creepy….
    Anyway, I am currently living in Centreville, VA (close to Dulles Airport), I moved out here almost two years ago. Before that i was living off of Belmont Rd. in Adams Morgan in DC. Talk about culture shock!!!!!
    However my biggest change will be taking place at the end of August when I will be moving out to San Francisco. So, I will leave it up to you to choose which state to color!

  104. Ben said at 9:06 am on June 5th, 2003:

    I’m being spied on at 3rd and G NW.

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