There were these other things I was supposed to finish right now, but what do I do? I read dollarshort.org, the fantastic blog of one of the founders of movabletype.
Mena G. Trott describes how she used to be "The Queen of the Mountain" when she was little. She lived in a place with a garden that had a little hill. (Read it. It is quite fun... actually... I might be ale to permalink to this one... here Those of you who know me, will know that I spent large portions of my childhood on the 8th floor of a large apartment complex in a city called Jastrzebie Zdrój, in Poland. I had a beautiful view out of my room. We were on the 8th floor, (European 8th floor, would make it the 9th in the US) but right in front of our house was this huge valley, filled with mud and dirt and freshly planted trees. Jastrzebie was a very young 100,000 soul city at that time and the houses were built and inhabited before there were any streets to lead to them. (See this blog). Across the valley was a large shopping center. Maybe it was not really large, but it felt large because I was a little kid. And because it was the 70’s in Poland, there were bright neon s on the shopping center. The s belonged to a club, but we just called the whole complex what the club was called (Wow, bad English). It was called Havana. Nobody in their right mind would call a shopping center Havana in the States. But in Poland, on the other side of the iron curtain, it felt like this superbly exclusive destination. Havana is certainly beautiful. The Havana I was looking at as a child was probably not beautiful. I do not even know if Havana still exists in Jastrzebie. A search for Havana and Jastrzebie actually returns 2.5 results in Google. (Now it will be 3, I guess). None of the results is actually from the city of Jastzebie Zdrój. (The city is misspelled in the National Geographic Atlas of the World I have here.)
Have you ever been to Poland? (Movabletype understands Polish!) Have you ever been to Havana?... (The real one, in Cuba, or the one in Jastrzebie Zdrój?)
