other_life
bioconfused
i live in the northwestern corner of the northernmost state of the mainland u.s. i live 25 minutes away from the headwaters of the mississippi river.
i spend lots of my time in what used to be a railroad town but is now really just a collection of houses along dirt roads surrounded by evergreen trees, there's a paved trail that you can take into town right next to us.
the town is named after its lake. its center is its state university and its downtown.
over a bridge and next to its other lake is this really great arts + general community space, this indigenous-environmental group has its office there, they were at standing rock, they have a library as well, a performance space with really great acoustics.
at one end of the town, its south, where i come in from these days, is a grocery store, a neighborhood that used to be a different town, bullshit suburban development that used to be woods with a couple houses next to the opposite side of aforementioned other lake.
at the other end of the town is where most of the chain restaurants and big box stores and the mall and the repurposed strip mall have been relegated to. it's also where the high school-middle school i graduated from, as well as the mainstream high school and middle school all are.
and holy fuck there are just so many churches, all different protestant denominations that aren't substantially any fucking different from each other, all over this part of the state, all over the u.s. i suppose but FUCK.
oh did i fucking mention the settlers committed genocide and even those who didn't directly participate cheered it on and even those who didn't cheer it on are still eating the spoils? because there's a couple first nations reservations up here as well, god bless em for real. and this sort of quiet antagonism between natives and whites, houseless and addicted first nations people in the town, cliques in the elementary and mainstream middle + high schools along these lines. at the school i went to it's not *as* bad.
it's pretty small but you have to drive an hour and a half south to find some place bigger. and i like the culture up here somewhat better, it's a degree less white bread than the more central and southern parts of the state. just a degree. though the rich from those parts come up here to vacation.
i spend lots of my time in what used to be a railroad town but is now really just a collection of houses along dirt roads surrounded by evergreen trees, there's a paved trail that you can take into town right next to us.
the town is named after its lake. its center is its state university and its downtown.
over a bridge and next to its other lake is this really great arts + general community space, this indigenous-environmental group has its office there, they were at standing rock, they have a library as well, a performance space with really great acoustics.
at one end of the town, its south, where i come in from these days, is a grocery store, a neighborhood that used to be a different town, bullshit suburban development that used to be woods with a couple houses next to the opposite side of aforementioned other lake.
at the other end of the town is where most of the chain restaurants and big box stores and the mall and the repurposed strip mall have been relegated to. it's also where the high school-middle school i graduated from, as well as the mainstream high school and middle school all are.
and holy fuck there are just so many churches, all different protestant denominations that aren't substantially any fucking different from each other, all over this part of the state, all over the u.s. i suppose but FUCK.
oh did i fucking mention the settlers committed genocide and even those who didn't directly participate cheered it on and even those who didn't cheer it on are still eating the spoils? because there's a couple first nations reservations up here as well, god bless em for real. and this sort of quiet antagonism between natives and whites, houseless and addicted first nations people in the town, cliques in the elementary and mainstream middle + high schools along these lines. at the school i went to it's not *as* bad.
it's pretty small but you have to drive an hour and a half south to find some place bigger. and i like the culture up here somewhat better, it's a degree less white bread than the more central and southern parts of the state. just a degree. though the rich from those parts come up here to vacation.