Thursday, August 28, 2003

Right, I'm actually all over the logistics because I had plenty of me-time in the car (I think all of my time was me-time . . . unless someone was in my car). I need to carbo-load a bit friday night, and I'm poor so going out with Mark to dinner seems like a bad idea. According to Donner the drive is about 7 hours (and Donner drives fast so I believe him). I'm leaving around 7:30 so I'll get there in the midafternoon. I need to see if I can find a place to workout that I like, but that won't take too long and might get done on the way to downtown.

Here's the current plan. Pasta at restaurants is expensive, but pasta from the store isn't. So we can all go either to my place or your place, fix a nice pasta dinner, and catch up. This allows me to carbo-load, us all to share Mark-time for the evening and Mark actually to see some people he might not expected (Mikex0r and Rich at my place, Darren and Josh at yours depending on what we do). I must admit I am kind of leaning towards my place because then I can just fall alseep the istant that people leave.

How's that for logistics. Ofcourse I haven't checked any of this with Mark . . . wait a minute. . . never mind that failed miserably. Apparently T-Mobile doesn't have good coverage out here. I've been trying to call his ass all day too and it never works. I'll try again tomorrow. Anyway, those are the loose logistics of the evening. As for saturday night, I know I'll be coming back to Atlanta, but I imagine I'll be icing my body a good bit (sprained ankle and all). Ofcourse watch this fail because Mark has already planned for saturday night dinner or something.

Well the drive today was long (11 hours, just long enough to be long) and I was tired. I didn't get to sleep until 1:30 last night and then woke up at 7:15 for a final breakfast with Rachel (the weightlifter) before heading out. It was a fun trip until I decided that I would rather drive through the heart of Chicago than pay the toll to take the loop. At 2-3pm I was unable to go faster than 20 mph from 15 miles outside the city to fifteenmiles past it. It was nice to see a big city again, and get cut off by motherfuckers in a hurry, but I could have done a lot better with time if I had just eaten some money.

It would be great if this forum could be used more. I know Rachel asked about it (mainly if she could get access) because I ended up telling a bunch of stories of the Fort and you guys, including the radioactive boner story of Ted's. As we all get farher and farther away it is a good way to keep intouch, and if we (and by we I mean matt) increase the user base then the possibility of getting places to stay increases. But that also requires people to check it frequently and I don't think people check this as frequently as Jeremy and I.

I think this is still best used as a log of people and the events that HAVE and will in THE FUTURE occur to them. It is clumsier than direct email for quick things. Regardless it is useless if matt doesn't get thinngs back up again (at least for nonusers). Oh, and I think Roxy was headed to San Diego before Kayak worlds, so there still exists a chance that is where she is. Does anyone have cell phone number for her??

Tomorrow is my last day on the road before returning home. While I am looking forward to many things, I also know that I am at a point in my life where many things are going to change or at least have the potential to. It will be interesting to see where the pieces fall, whether I get one of these jobs and move as a result, or get no job and apply for a PhD places, or if I am eaten by cats. Anything is possible. One thing that I am happy about, is that I feel that I will be better at keeping in touch with people after this summer. As my friendbase slowly expands across the country I guess I am forced to. Well, I think that is all for me tonight. Long-winded as always. It is funny how I come back from every roadtrip feeling wiser even if I'm not. See some of you tomorrow, the rest I'll see when I do. Next scheduled trip is to Chicago for Tune-up. Maybe I can find a connectoing and post saturday's results as well as whatever other shit comes to mind.

On another note, I'm not sure why, but I really miss my Mom right now. I'll go see her bench and some Paideia folk when I am back so that should help things. Until later.

M

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