For Mira! Meetenings! (Closed)

[callmeemily]

She'd wanted to go on her walk a full hour ago. Raleigh tromped down the stairs - well, sort-of tromped, because she couldn't tromp down any stairs even if she wanted to. But she had a plan - go out, maybe stop by the animal shelter to spend time with some of the dogs - go anywhere but the bakery, because today was the one day of the week that they're closed, and she's going to actually make herself not go to the bakery, or think of baking, or anything.

What she didn't expect is that when she pulled the door open, the porch would have someone on it. Someone that she'd seen around, but not actually met, yet. "Uh.... hi?" Clearly she'd been about to knock or ring the bell... right?

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[astra_inclinant]

"Yup! --Thanks -" Mira sets about steeping her tea and smiles at the almost immediate mint smell. "I miss it kinda. I'm from here, though. Just took a little break for fivish years. A really, uh, writing heavy break. I feel like everyone somehow ends up back here sooner or later, though."

She laughs. "I figure, you apply to Harvard because you already have a sizable ego or you're really hoping to develop one. We were too busy having parties for that. Or in my case sometimes geeking out over the observatory." Mira takes a drink.

"My god, Tennessee, you mean there are real people who go to college there?" she jokes. "Yeah, being from nowhere Maine is weird enough, I can only imagine. To be fair the only thing I know about Tennessee is...um, there's got a good women's basketball team? My roommate a couple years was from Connecticut and we always ended up watching."

[callmeemily]

Raleigh nods when Mira talks about actually being from Maine. "I mean, real people don't go to college there. Only fake ones. The real people have to leave, that's why I went to Boston. Got kicked out." She smiles and she wrinkles her nose when Mira talks about Women's basketball. Not that there was anything wrong with it, but... eugh.

Not what she wants to be known for.

"Nashville? Nashville's in Tennessee. And the Appalachian mountains?" She's trying to sort of jog Mira's memory, but it's alright if she doesn't remember - or know, honestly. "I mean, living here's just got to be like, owning stock in LL Bean and having moose buddies, right? Not quite Canadian, but close?" She's teasing her just as much.

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Mira laughs. "Yeah, Nashville I knew," she nods. "I'm not exactly a country music fan but I could tell you where the city is. And I probably could have told you the Appalachians, though I think I think more of like....Kentucky, West Virginia? But when I think of what Tennessee is like I think like...woodsy, mostly? I have no idea if that's right at all."

She laughs and takes a drink. "We all do own stock in LL Bean," she jokes. "If you don't get duck boots within a calendar year you get kicked out. But you're forgetting that we're all lobster fisherman," she reminds Raleigh with a grin.

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"All of Tennessee is.... woodsy," she says with a laugh. "But East Tennessee, that's mountains. Woodsy mountains, but still mountains." She rolls her shoulder in a shrug. "It's sort of the stereotypical- I mean..." Her accent gets thicker on purpose, and she's smiling over the edge of her mug. "Starts at the Cumberland Mountains, and ends at Smokey Mountains."

She pauses. "I sort of miss it," she confesses before she takes another sip, and her lips quirk up. "I don't own duck boots, yet. That mean I'm going to get kicked out? Or just that we have to go down to Freeport." She laughs though, when Mira says that they're all lobster fisherman. "All with the yellow coats, right? And the weird hats?"

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Mira grins. "I'd like to see more of the country. It's great to know the physics of how space and planets are put together, but the farthest south I've been in the US is...New Jersey?" She laughs. "Pretty pathetic."

"I get that," she says. "Oh yeah, you have like - a 90 day probationary period to get to L.L. Bean before things get dire, we're gonna have to take a road trip." She takes a drink of her tea, grinning. "And exactly. The Gorton's fisherman just stole it from Maine." She laughs.

[callmeemily]

"Hey, I've never been to New Jersey," she says with a laugh. "I've got here, Massachusetts, and Tennessee, that's it. As long as you don't count when got here - we took a truck from Boston, so I guess technically I've been to New Hampshire." For like, half an hour.

"We should definitely take a road trip," she says with a wide smile. "I mean, I don't have a car, but I am totally for it. Anything that's warmer, I'm pretty much always there." She's so freaking cold, almost all the time. "I mean, even if I wasn't in the market for boots so I don't get kicked out, I think I'd still love to do the road trip thing. I've never really done it."

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"You're not missing a whole lot, there." Mira laughs. "It's a lot of suburbs. And Italian restaurants. And a concert venue. Well, probably more than one, but I only went to one."

"Yes," she enthuses. "I do have a car! I've done mini-road trips, when I was at school we'd go to concerts, we went to New Jersey once and Boston a couple times. But I'd love to do a real one, or even a not-quite-so-real one. Plus I love making mix tapes and road trips seem like the ultimate opportunity."