Why, It's Only The City Every Carlsbadean Teenager Wants to Live In

[greendryad]

Albuquerque is an awfully long name for a city, especially the one you claim as your roots. Of course, it's no effort to write for almost everyone who's lived there long enough, even though they still write it on the chalkboard/whiteboard for us when filling out standard test forms in your Senior year of HS. However, when writing it over and over, it tends to get a little tedious. My friends and I find ways to shorten it, and we've found that "Alb."-the logical way to abbreviate- sounds and looks like a tired old man rotting away in his musty old house. So then we come up with "The 'Burque"; it's hip, cool, and more fun to write. Not to mention it's awesome to say, "Yeah. I'm from The 'Burque." No, I don't know where it comes from or who made it up. Ask isaidello, I suppose, but I think she's on a sabbatical from LJ for the summer.

I can so see myself as a cool, college-student, Beat poet wearing all black, my Converses, and a beret. And where'm I from? The 'Burque.

Comments

[hayley-beth24.livejournal.com]

No idea who made it up first but the Alibi has that annual contest - "the best of burque". Maybe it was them who made it really catch on.

[lightgreendryad.livejournal.com]

Shrug. Maybe. Of course, people who write and design magazines are paid to sit around and make stuff sound cool.

[isaidello.livejournal.com]

'Burque pride in the 505!

Not on sabbatical, just a broken wireless router that put me out of touch for about three weeks.

And I don't know who started it really. I picked it up from Hunter. It's fun to say with that "what up, ese?" accent that I miss so much.

I haven't talked to you in forever. *LOVE*

[lightgreendryad.livejournal.com]

Hooray! Jenny's back!! And you got it fixed? And I get to hear ow New Haven is in the summer (besides unbearable hot, of course)? The apartment sounds really cool.

[xannabelle.livejournal.com]

i couldn't even spell that,lol

[lightgreendryad.livejournal.com]

Meh. You get usd to it after writing it a lot for 18 years. And then even more for after that.