Greeting from Lincoln, Nebraska and the UNebraska Student Union. I tried to get in touch with the blog monday night in Nashville but was held up a bit (more to come).
The trip has gone well so far. My first day was only 4 hours so it was a breeze. Yesterday was 12, and that started to drag on me (did you say dragon?). Nashville was fun. I stayed at a friend of mine's through ultimate. I knew her when she played in high school, and now she plays for UGA. Her house was super phat, her family was super cool, and was looking super pretty (result of only seeing people on the field is when they aren't on the field they look spectacular). So we spent the evening going to a few bars then grabbing a movie at 11:30. We got American Splendor, which was an . . . interesting film. I really want to get Bruckner's opinion on it at some point. It basically talks about the life of this asshole who writes (but doesn't draw) comics about his life and has a ridiculous number of social problems. Yep, that was the movie. It didn't seem to follow a thread very well, but the cinematography was excellent (or so I think, which is why I want to talk to Bruck). A that point we were brain fried so we watched the mind-less Elimidate to get our brains back down. Lo and behold it is 3 in the fucking morinig at this point (4 back at home) so I go to sleep. She works so she was gone in the morning, got to talk to her Mom some (Again her parents are really cool) and then she left. So it was just me, her asleep brother and her dog Lucky, who is your friend one minute and then your enemy the next. I manage to get out of the house on on my way to Nebraska, but not before a little trouble.
See, you always seem to forget something on a trip, or at least I do. So the game is trying to minimize the importance of that thing. Jeremy can attest that it seemed like I was going to fail this timem as I couldn't find my phone within 1 hour of departure time. I did find my phone, and so the trip begins with the crisis overted, right? Wrong. See, when looking for my phone I took stuff out of my bag. That stuff included the charger for my phone. So no I am charger-less headed to Nashville. Fortunately I still have all of my battery life. But that isn't the end of my losing woes. While at a bar in Nashville I manage to leave my credit card at the bar. I didn't realize this until the next morning, but I then had to wait until 11 am Nashville time for the bar to open so I could get my card. I used the time wisely to get a charger as well, but that set me back 3 hours in my expected trip to Lincoln.
I rolled into Lincoln around 11 pm, which was when my friend Kristin (from the Springs trip) gets off of work, so that all worked out well. We spent a good bit of the night catching up and talking about the other interns from the USOC. Didn't get to sleep until 2 am. Fortunately she doesn't work in the mornings, so I slept in until 10 am and got a good nights sleep for my trip to Denver today. The Denver leg of this trip is interesting. I'll be spending a few days between there and Colorado Springs, so there will be multiple posts from there and I'll tell you more about the strangeness around Denver at that point.
The last thing to bring up is that I have tried to revive a "lost art" of travelling. Back in the old days it was all about gifting when you travel. I mean, if you weren't giving your hosts gifts they would kill you. So I've been buying stuff for everyone along the way. I got Chowning (Nashville) some UGA sandals at a Nike outlet store. Kristin is getting a stuffed Tigger doll (she has a . . . healthy fascination with the bouncing tiger). The trick is that I can't give these people the gifts up front. I have to wait until I leave. I don't really know why, but it would feel awkward to gift people right away. So I've been hiding the stuff in their house with a note in true, avoid interaction, Martin fashion. The idea behind this gifting is that the Travel Gods (Issaries, or something like that) like to reward those that help with the journey. So I'm building good trip Karma, which I figure will come in handy when Mark and I are trapped by Nazis in South Dakota. He'll be all like "dude, we're fucked" and I be all "it's cool man, I gave someone a Tigger doll along the way. They can't fuck with us now." And then a meteor lands on the Nazis or some shit. Anyway, that is what I am hoping for.
Stay tuned there is more to come from Denver.
M
The trip has gone well so far. My first day was only 4 hours so it was a breeze. Yesterday was 12, and that started to drag on me (did you say dragon?). Nashville was fun. I stayed at a friend of mine's through ultimate. I knew her when she played in high school, and now she plays for UGA. Her house was super phat, her family was super cool, and was looking super pretty (result of only seeing people on the field is when they aren't on the field they look spectacular). So we spent the evening going to a few bars then grabbing a movie at 11:30. We got American Splendor, which was an . . . interesting film. I really want to get Bruckner's opinion on it at some point. It basically talks about the life of this asshole who writes (but doesn't draw) comics about his life and has a ridiculous number of social problems. Yep, that was the movie. It didn't seem to follow a thread very well, but the cinematography was excellent (or so I think, which is why I want to talk to Bruck). A that point we were brain fried so we watched the mind-less Elimidate to get our brains back down. Lo and behold it is 3 in the fucking morinig at this point (4 back at home) so I go to sleep. She works so she was gone in the morning, got to talk to her Mom some (Again her parents are really cool) and then she left. So it was just me, her asleep brother and her dog Lucky, who is your friend one minute and then your enemy the next. I manage to get out of the house on on my way to Nebraska, but not before a little trouble.
See, you always seem to forget something on a trip, or at least I do. So the game is trying to minimize the importance of that thing. Jeremy can attest that it seemed like I was going to fail this timem as I couldn't find my phone within 1 hour of departure time. I did find my phone, and so the trip begins with the crisis overted, right? Wrong. See, when looking for my phone I took stuff out of my bag. That stuff included the charger for my phone. So no I am charger-less headed to Nashville. Fortunately I still have all of my battery life. But that isn't the end of my losing woes. While at a bar in Nashville I manage to leave my credit card at the bar. I didn't realize this until the next morning, but I then had to wait until 11 am Nashville time for the bar to open so I could get my card. I used the time wisely to get a charger as well, but that set me back 3 hours in my expected trip to Lincoln.
I rolled into Lincoln around 11 pm, which was when my friend Kristin (from the Springs trip) gets off of work, so that all worked out well. We spent a good bit of the night catching up and talking about the other interns from the USOC. Didn't get to sleep until 2 am. Fortunately she doesn't work in the mornings, so I slept in until 10 am and got a good nights sleep for my trip to Denver today. The Denver leg of this trip is interesting. I'll be spending a few days between there and Colorado Springs, so there will be multiple posts from there and I'll tell you more about the strangeness around Denver at that point.
The last thing to bring up is that I have tried to revive a "lost art" of travelling. Back in the old days it was all about gifting when you travel. I mean, if you weren't giving your hosts gifts they would kill you. So I've been buying stuff for everyone along the way. I got Chowning (Nashville) some UGA sandals at a Nike outlet store. Kristin is getting a stuffed Tigger doll (she has a . . . healthy fascination with the bouncing tiger). The trick is that I can't give these people the gifts up front. I have to wait until I leave. I don't really know why, but it would feel awkward to gift people right away. So I've been hiding the stuff in their house with a note in true, avoid interaction, Martin fashion. The idea behind this gifting is that the Travel Gods (Issaries, or something like that) like to reward those that help with the journey. So I'm building good trip Karma, which I figure will come in handy when Mark and I are trapped by Nazis in South Dakota. He'll be all like "dude, we're fucked" and I be all "it's cool man, I gave someone a Tigger doll along the way. They can't fuck with us now." And then a meteor lands on the Nazis or some shit. Anyway, that is what I am hoping for.
Stay tuned there is more to come from Denver.
M
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