Here is the funny thing about dogs: the hottest they are, the smilier they look. When they are on the brink of total heat exhaustion and dehydration, they look like they are having the grandest time of their lives: OH MAN MY KIDNEYS ARE SECONDS AWAY FROM FAILING PERMANENTLY BUT I REALLY THINK THIS IS THE GREATEST DAY OF MY LIFE.
(Dogs think in all caps, and they do not use commas.)
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I have been monitoring the temperatures in Grand Rapids and Statesboro. Right now Grand Rapids lags by about ten degrees, but the humidity is higher. What this actually means, I'm not sure, since I don't understand weather or atmospheric pressure. See also: my B+ Earth Science grade, second marking period, 1995.
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This is cool.
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Here is a list of things I need to do: arrange for utilities to be hooked up in Georgia; drive fourteen hours to Georgia and leave the B's car and various boxes in our new place's carport; walk through the house we've already agreed to rent and see that it actually exists and does not smell exclusively of pee; log into my new school e-mail; choose textbooks for my new course assignments; make a list of Things to Do in Grand Rapids For Probably the Last Time; find some boxes; dismantle current apartment.
But here is a list of things I have already done: reserved moving truck; sorted clothes to donate to Goodwill; sorted kitchen and other assorted things to donate to Goodwill; started to get excited about new job and new university and new climate and new adventure on the horizon.
Huzzah! We are moving. And in this new place, I might even get my very own bathroom. From the photos, it appears to be tiled entirely in pink.
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There is more to say, I think, but I am still processing and sorting through what the last three years in Michigan have been, and how Vermont shook me up and set me back down, and what I am excited about doing in the next few years. But I have to do those things later, I think.
For now, I will give you only a photo of the beach, and tell you that it is, in fact, still there.
Man, there are bugs like all over me. I'm taking my newly green dog and heading inside for the afternoon.
Unacceptable. I want more: pictures of the Pee House and the pink you'll wake up to every morning. More websites like that picture one I can put on my AP Blog (what a great hidden writing assignment in that picture blog though--and do you know that I take all of the cool stuff you find and always use it in my classroom as though I am the one who is blog/web saavy--thank for that!) More about the new job, more about the happy, hot dog (your dog is so happy, everyone says, no, he's just hot, YEAH FUCK YOU, says Lenny). More about the beach, more about summer, more about everything.
ReplyDeleteAlso, more, please about that B+ in Earth Science. Who was the teacher? Did he have see-through white pants like Jenny's geometry teacher who said THERE ARE SHAPES EVERYWHERE KIDS! SHAPES EVERYWHERE!
ReplyDeleteDid he make you identify rocks. Did he make you collect leaves and put them in a "leaf journal"? Mine did. Did you go through that movement at the beginning of high school where you cared about the environment all of a sudden and wore t-shirts with whales and shit all over them, with flowers, and tigers and recycling? I did!
...if it's not obvious, I would just like to have a conversation with you right now.