“What are you going to do? Stay in Texas? You don’t have it to stay in Texas and you don’t want it,” my friend told me, a retired English teacher. “I have it and I don’t want it.”
Well I’m staying in Houston, Texas. What' I’ve learned so far:
If you’re not tied to a 9a-5p work schedule, try to get any driving done between 10:30a-3p.
If you’ve parked your car in the sun for an extended amount of time, open your windows just a bit after you get back in your car to let the hot air escape.
It doesn’t take much for me to choose convenience over the environment. I’ve really let things slide. I am living in an archaic gas and oil empire, and there’s something morbidly debaucherous about using styrofoam, endless plastic bags. My lifestyle is an ongoing, undramatic murder of Mother Nature. Without laws and regulations, I don’t seem to have the stamina to commit to reusing, recycling, and…
In the inner-loop (scroll down in link for a summary of inner vs outer loop) there are a handful of independent bookstores, such as Kaboom Books and Kindred Stories. On the other end of the spectrum, Barnes & Noble feels vibrant and enriching considering it is a corporate chain, perhaps due to to the lack of independent bookstores and it feels like a sanctuary in what feels like a bleak landscape of big box stores.
Stay hydrated.
Don’t mess with Texas! Be wary of ant hills in the fields of blue bonnets, in any grassy patch really.
When I got my Texas driver’s license, I had to give up my California IDs </3. I don’t know if there is a workaround this, but beware.
There are other items which I will add over time, if I remember . . .