i was in indiana the last 5 days sending time with my sister, her hubby and my new niece hannah.i’ve got lots of pics and i’m going to do the very AW, traffic driving thing to do and post them here, then link them on fb. bad person? naw, not when they’re pro-ish pics i’ve taken! more to come.
i realized a couple weeks ago how unfamiliar people look to me here. when i was up in st cloud, on any given day, if i went to the mall, walmart, cashwise, coborn’s, wherever, the people i saw were familiar to me. given the large proportion of german descendants in the area and relative lack of diversity, this doesn’t surprise me. if there were other ethnicities, it was mostly one population; in this case, it was somalis.
now when i go out i am faced with people from a huuuge variety of backgrounds. because of mayo, this area is really diverse. and it’s kind of unnerving to go out and be amid this slough of people in an area you’re supposed to call home but not really feel any familiarity with them.
maybe it will pass with time, and i will get used to the diversity. but until then, it’s hard to call this place home. i wonder if this makes me racist/ethnicist.
Neil Gaiman flooded my twitter feed with a bunch of retweets of answers to his questions through a year (it was some sort of collaboration with Blackberry – they probably gave him a phone – using the hashtag #keepmoving). It was fascinating reading what others wrote in their 140 characters. so, I thought I’d give it a try. Limiting this to 140 characters for each answer, hopefully.
Why is January so dangerous?
January’s icy sidewalks and hypothermia set in quickly if you’re not careful.
What’s the strangest thing that ever happened to you in February?
One year my husband actually got me roses for Valentine’s Day! That was pretty strange…
What Historical figure does March remind you of?
Why does March elicit snippets of war leaders? Winston Churchill.
What is your happiest memory of April?
April is always a happy time for me because the sun is out longer and the days get warmer.
What is the weirdest gift you’ve ever been given in May?
Perhaps the gift of clarity over a friendship’s parting ways.
Where would you spend a perfect June?
A perfect June is spent in the garden with my fingers in the dirt and grassy knees.
What is the most unusual thing you have ever seen in July?
I saw a flying jackalope in July once. It’s now sitting on my shelf.
If August could speak, what would it say?
I imagine August as an overtanned, greased up, over botoxed woman lying out in the sun next to a pool with a drink in her hand. Any noise would be whargarbl because of the botox.
Tell me something you lost in September that meant a lot to you.
I lost the thrill of the first day of school.
What mythical creature would you like to meet in October?
A banshee.
What would you burn in November, if you could?
If words were rubber, I would burn them like a Friday night drag race.
Who would you like to see again in December?
My uncle Squire 🙂 And Santa Claus.
turns out i got a wordpress annual report for 2012! it just took me this long to find it.
http://jetpack.me/annual-report/34593251/2012/
wayback machine archive has about 10 of my lost posts archived from dec. 2011! i’ll have to import and post them again, backdated.