Thursday, August 26

Gruess aus Richmond

Well hello there, long time no see! yes I am alive and well in Richmond, VA. I manage to survive the twenty some hour car trip from MN, but let me tell you about culture shock... come back from a semester traveling by train around Europe and then drive your car halfway accross the US. Gargantuan rest stops... fast food... toll roads... truckers... oiy. I did stop in Chicago and had a lovely evening with Karen eating Chicago style stuffed pizza and walking down to sit my lake Michigan. Chicago is cool, I could live there. Then I drove though Indiana, Ohio, Pensilvania through big mountains- the first rest stop in Pennsylvania had a Sheetz! then I drove down and down and when I saw the first sign for a Waffle house I bounced around in my car a bit and said, yay! I'm in the south! I probably sang a little song about it too... I'd been alone for quite a while at that point. Then I got onto UR campus and there were all these little people walking around talking and yelling and wearing trashy tube tops and I was like, what on earth is going on? Oh yeah.... college...saturday night...freshmen. Whoa. Side note: in one of my classes a boy was wearing yellow shorts with little blue fish on them and a blue polo shirt... oh my good Lord... I go to school here? Anyway. So thankfully my roomate was home to let me in and I drifted peacefully off to sleep as soon as I could get my sheets on the bed. After a mad all day shopping spree at Wallmart and Target I have managed to aquire the essentials for my appartment and am somewhat settled in. I LOVE living in an apartment!

Right now I'm going to go for a run, but I will write more later, about... something. I'm not sure what the future of the blog holds, I haven't decided. Now that it isn't so much going to be a log of my travels I don't know what to write and it would be silly to write poinless drivel about my day every day. So we'll see. I'll try to come up with more witty oberservations or or stimulating academic discourse, or.... something.
Pictures are coming! really and truly.

1 comment:

Kathy said...

Hi Anne,
I was glad to see you're keeping up your blog. I enjoy reading it, and your kids might some day, too! Maybe it will lead to book ideas or something...

We had our last outdoor soccer game last night, and it was called due to lightening. So of course a bunch of us went to the local bar and spent our extra team money on beer and food. Four of us are going golfing tomorrow. I wish I could do team sports more often...and have the body I did twenty-five years ago!

Bobby finally called the other day. He's doing fine. I guess he called Dad last night because his battery died on his laptop already...Now he'll have to start dealing with those day-to-day problems mom and dad used to take care of. Well, I gotta go to the dentist and get Scott some paintballs. One of his friends showed him how to use Bobby's gun...
Love,
Mom