a csi:ny question

[bedlamsbard]

So do we have a rough estimate on how old Danny is? Early thirties-ish, somewhere 'round there? And do we know when he joined the NYPD and the crime lab?

Because if we don't, I can totally, like, make it all up. Which, okay, AU anyway, but it'd be nice to have a couple guidelines, so he doesn't end up being anymore super Danny than he already is.

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[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

But the high school in my original does! Sort of.

That's because my school ROCKS. Seriously, the reason they can't make the school year start any earlier is because the county fair is over Labor Day weekend, and, like, at least half the students in the school district are involved with the fair somehow. Fair is a major deal here: the band and the cheerleades are in the Rodeo Parade, 4-H and FFA show their animals, people get jobs selling rodeo posters and stuff on the fairgrounds, and it's just...county fair. Ya know?

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

Hey, my school gave us a long weekend so we could go to the Texas State Fair, so I TOTALLY know what you mean. (they gave us free tickets, too, yeehaw!)

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

If the band won the rodeo parade, we could totally get into Fair free (and we had to play the national anthem at the Rodeo, too, but that part's not so much fun). School usually starts the Wednesday after Labor Day; everyone comes in summer-tanned and lazy, with Fair ink on their hands and ride and exhibitor bracelets on their wrists, gloating over the cows and pigs and goats they sold for lots and lots of cash (seriously, you can make good money. I did dog 4-H; you can't sell dogs).

...I want it to be summer. I miss marching band. And I only have one year left!

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

Just thinking about selling cows and horses and whatever makes me SO GLAD that I'm a city girl. I've never even seen a goat, outside of TV. Saw a llama once, though, and I've seen cows while driving, but that's about it. I don't even like the outdoors, so animals? Yeah, I'll just stay indoors with my cat ;).

I want it to be summer, too, just because it means omg NO MORE -14 WINDCHILLS *shivers*

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

They don't sell horses! You can't eat horses! (Which is totally what they're selling the cows and the pigs for -- seriously, good money. That's where people get their college fund from, ten years of selling animals at Fair.)

But...but...country! Animals! Let's not even get into the porcupines in the mud room (and the ROAD ohmygod my mom ran over one once) and the deer in the backyard and the COWS in the backyard (stupid neighbors) and the sheep/goats/cows/horses/deer/dogs in the road and the skunks, Christ, skunks and mice and owls and hawks and birds of all types and coyotes down by the river...

Sometime when 1 degree F isn't warm. *sigh*

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

Does that mean they eat GOATS? Because, ew.

Okay, that nice long list of animals and stinky wild things? IS EXACTLY why I don't want to live anywhere with a population under 500,000. I did my first year of university in a town (a TOWN, I say, because wow, so not a city) in Iowa where the population (not counting the uni itself) was only 30,000 people, and it was like living in the boonies.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

*frowns* I don't know if they eat the goats. I think they sell the goats, but I don't remember. I KNOW they sell the cows and the pigs for food -- because, wow, yum.

My town is about 15,000 WITH the college students, about 9,000 without. We have much smaller towns in the valley. Like Easton. Or Cle Elum and Roslyn; they have to share a high school even though they're technically two towns. It's why I always go off into gales of laughter whenever I watch Smallville or Buffy and they talk about how small the town is, because Smallville and Sunnydale are, like, twice to three times the size of the Burg and Ellensburg doesn't function like that small of a town AT ALL.

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

I love me some pig and some cow. Except for the part where my family is Jewish. And the part where I didn't eat beef for four years. But other than that. (how did i survive 12 years of my life in texas?!)

Ngh. Ottawa, where I live now, is 800,000 people. And it's a small city to me. NYC, where I want to go for Grad School, is 8,000,000, which is MUCH BETTER, in my opinion.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Ever had buffalo? Or beefalo? Or lamb, god, lamb -- you know what else is good? Piglet. It is so tender...I love freaking people out with the food stories, even though I'm, like, the pickiest eater ever.

Gyah. Like, I'm considering a couple cities for college, but I keep getting put off by the city thing -- I mean, I can barely stand Yakima, let alone Seattle. And then I have problems with colleges that are bigger than the TOWN I LIVE in. I mean...20,000 students. 30,000. How can they DO that?

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

Buffalo? Piglet? I'm tempted to give up eating meat again... Ew!

I guess because I was born and raised only in big cities (Orlando, Dallas, spending time in San Fran and NYC), I'm just the opposite. Being in a small town freaks me out, because it's so open, so quiet. I like the anonymity of the big city, the options to eat in a different restaurant every day for a year and still not try them all, the shopping, the noise, the cultures mingling together :D

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

How about quail? Rabbit? Venison? Wild turkey? We live out in the boonies, people hunt and kill their own meat here -- slaughter their own, too. *grins* I'm sorry, I can't help myself. I actually had the piglet in Thailand, not here, but still...

Well, I was born in Seattle, but I've spent the past twelve years or so here. And it's not that quiet -- but compared to a big city? Yeah, definitely so. But it's...peaceful, ya know? Just...you know what's going on, who's who, all that. And it's safer.

And it is SO MUCH FUN to freak out the city kids with your country living stories (not you personally, but I've done it with other people, like at Stanford last summer).

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

Turkey, maybe. MAYBE. But that's it. *shudders* And to think, I have a hamburger cooking right now...

I'm all for peace and quiet, but only in small doses!

The closest I have to a country story is when an opossum got into our trash can. Actually, I think my mom hit an armadillo on the road, once...

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Just plain beef is good, too. Of course, I'm not one of the people who raise it, then slaughter it. I have friends who are, though.

But cities are so NOISY.

A couple of months ago, a porcupine got in our mud room, and it WOULD NOT LEAVE. And my mom once ran over a porcupine (not with the wheels, with the body of the car) and there were quills stuck below the car. And we've always got a few roadkilled deer lying around out here. *sad*

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

If I had to raise and slaughter my own cow, I don't think I'd be able to eat it. At least getting it from the grocery store means I don't have to think about where it came from!

Cities are noisy, yeah, but there are quiet parts. You just have to know where to find them :)

In Texas, it's mostly skunks and possums that get hit. Armadillos if you go out into the boonies. Maybe the rare squirrel. I've never seen a deer outside of a zoo or TV show, though.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I don't think I'd be able to either.

Yeah, but...people. EVERYWHERE. I like cities in theory, but in practice...

We have skunks too. I hate skunks. We've got deer all over the place, though. Elk too, sometimes.

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

People everywhere is the point of it! Where else can you walk three blocks and go from Chinatown to Little Italy, and then another few blocks into the artsy part of town? It's fantastic to have all of those people and all of that diversity in one place.

Skunks are icky. Seriously, smelliest animals EVER.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Yes, but...people! Everywhere! And they're...I don't know, I think I lose this argument. I'm going to be in Providence, RI for four weeks this summer, though; that's a city.

Try running over one. Or smelling one that's been run over. Or having your dog get sprayed by one...

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

RI shouldn't even be considered a state. It's, like, a metroplex. However, yes, I can agree that Providence is a city.

My friend's dog got sprayed by a skunk, and dragged the smell into her apartment. She ended up having to trash a lot of stuff because of the smell.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

*snickers* Be kind to Rhode Island! It was one of the first states! Okay, it was the last of the first thirteen states, but still...

Yeurgh.

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

But... it's SO TINY. It's just a wee little box on the map. States like Texas and California could eat it from lunch and not feel a thing.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

But it has HISTORY Texas and Cali and Alaska don't have. It was there! It saw things! It was revolutionary! It didn't even want to fit in with the other states!

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

Hey, Texas was plenty revolutionary! And California and Alaska have their own awesomeness. Their own GREAT AND VAST awesomeness.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I give up. I'm in too much shock from my not-homework-doing-ness. Seriously, my grades have the survival instinct of something dead. I'm going to end up pulilng an all-nighter tomorrow night, aren't I? I'm not even writing right now, just reading Tales From Band Camp comics.

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

This is the best part about university... Yeah, there's homework, but it's not MANDATORY. So it's just readings and stuff that's assigned, and that's it. Which means staying up until god-awful hours of the night, chatting and reading/writing fic? So totally okay.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I'm the worst honor student ever. *facepalm* Tell me to do my homework.