Friday, February 16, 2007

Observations on life as a Hoosier

It’s cold.

I thought about taking up smoking because of the cold – or because of the media.

Our neighbors are quiet – the flayed dog I hung in the doorway seems to be doing the trick.

Noone from the blog but Chris and I honored the blood pact we all made several years ago where we vowed that we would move to Indiana by 2007 and start a cult.

The people who play Settlers here are just as annoying as those in Oregon.

Bloomington is the best city in Indiana.

At the local Afghani restaurant, when the server brings your food, it’s really funny if he has a dish but doesn’t know whose it is and noone tells him. Foreigners.

People on public transportation annoy the living daylights out of me. I rode the bus to campus yesterday morning and for ten minutes an elderly short woman talked with the bus driver about how the mall opens early at 7:30 am so people can take their walks, but its icy out so she can’t make it to the mall, and they should really do something about that ice or...

I actually got off the bus before my stop and walked the rest of the way. It was 12 degrees or something, but the cold was a welcome change.

On the way home she was on the same bus and she became friends with a man in sunglasses who was on his way to the YMCA to get his ID picture taken. They talked loudly about the need to prosecute individuals who don’t shovel the snow from their sidewalks and how there’s a number you can call to alert the local authorities to those negligent bastards. The man in sunglasses told the small woman at least seven times that you can be fined for not shoveling your sidewalk, and the small woman made it entirely clear that if she took one false step and fell on her left hip she would immediately die.

New Balance 574s are common, as are UGG boots. These seem to the reigning footwear paradigms amongst Hoosiers.

I hope you all can visit.

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