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Tuesday, May 14, 2002

so last night i bought some plane tickets. i'm officially getting out of here for a grand total of about three days. but it counts. i'm really happy about this because, well... you ever feel like if you have to stay in one place long enough you'll really lose your mind? i've been feeling that way about here for about a year and a half now, ever since i came back from living in venice and discovered that the world is a big place and it gets exponentially more interesting and exciting the further you are away from your hometown.

anyway, i'm going to iowa for those three days. i've been through iowa several times on cross-country roadtrips so i know it's still similar to michigan in that the majestic, sweeping landscape is full of a lot of corn and soybeans. i wonder if they grow onions and alfalfa in iowa too. they grow them here. but i'm digressing. i'm going to visit kate. yep, i'm finally going to meet this girl that i started talking to what seems like forever ago. someone told me i should be nervous about traveling all that way to meet someone i started talking to online, but i just laughed. if this person only knew what happened to me the last time i met someone from the online world, then they'd know that i have nothing to fear. no experience could possibly be worse than that.

besides which, kate is my soul twin, and i seriously doubt that she'll go insane and try to destroy my life. in fact, i'm certain that this trip is going to be incredibly fun.

i leave in three weeks.

i'm also trying to figure out how to financially swing a trip to new york in august. levi said he was having a poetry reading there sometime in august, and it would be really cool to be a part of that, i think. i'd like to go, and somehow work in philadelphia at the same time. yeah, i'd love to go visit sarah. because she's awesome and we generally have a lot of fun. or we get bored and stare at each other and talk about how we're not having any fun at all. either or. but i'd like to get out and see her so we can talk about how post-albion college life is absolutely grand and all of that.

nothing on the horizon as far as a meaningless summer fling goes... i saw a guy on saturday who was absolutely beautiful and who i wouldn't mind having a meaningless summer fling with, but he lives in ann arbor. and i have no idea what his name is. but he's really damn gorgeous.

there's this guy i used to work with a couple of summers ago named kevin who just got a divorce and who apparently has a crush on me. my mom keeps jokingly telling me that if i want to have a meaningless fling, i should go for kevin.... but i say, "ummm...no." for one thing, he's about 38, and for another thing he's kevin, and for yet another thing... well... yeah, um.... no.





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