Archive for 'The Gene Pool' Category
Oh, baby.
24 July 2008The Baby was in glen rock for a one night engagement last week on the occasion of her turning one. One! Remember when she was born? And now she’s practically driving? Babies are so weird like that. When she started walking I called Bud and told him I didn’t approve. “I think I liked her better [...]
accountability/ flashback friday
11 July 2008Okay, sports fans– I am cutting all of my hair off tomorrow. (Also, my new “thing” is to address people as Sports Fans in situations where it in no way applies. I would never say it to my fantasy baseball league, but somehow, it’s okay when I say it to my book club. So look [...]
at 8:30 this morning
10 July 2008Cristin: I walk to work through Times Square, and every day I pass the same place and have the same thought– why would you name your strip club Mixed Emotions?
Cousin Erin: Maybe Guilty Conscience was already taken.
The week in Peej
8 July 2008While my mom and I were off Kerouacing I took a very “I’ll see you in two weeks don’t expect much direct communication” approach to our loved ones and my mom took a very “I’m going to call you every day just as my nighttime minutes kick in to ask whether or not it’s raining [...]
Day 11: Wyoming
6 July 2008The only experience I had with Wyoming prior to this trip was my assignment to act as a republican senator from that state when we did Mock Senate in AP History. I wrote “Wyoming- Wy Not?” on my name tag (a pun I’m so terribly proud of that I still write it into fiction pieces [...]
Day 10: Utah II
6 July 2008We filled our Utah stops with books and dinosaurs, which I think was my mom’s silent way of apologizing to me for Reno. She knows me well enough to be sure that putting dinosaurs in front of me will guarantee my happiness for the next 600 miles or so.
We woke up in Salt Lake City [...]
Day 9: Nevada
1 July 2008I thought it would be at least a little hilarious to be at a casino in Reno at 10am on a Sunday. Over the course of the day I made at least 14 jokes via various means of communication about shooting a man just to watch him die, so I suppose I got my money’s [...]
Day 8: California
29 June 2008Marie makes an amazing tour guide, and she took us all over San Francisco on Saturday. This was great in many respects, not the least of which being that I didn’t have to drive through the city any more, as it was kind of giving me a heart attack with all the uncontrolled intersections. It’s [...]
Day 7: California
28 June 2008Most of Friday was spent getting to San Francisco which, personally, I think should have been a lot easier. But it turns out you can’t just drive straight across Nevada, you have to go all the way south through Vegas to head north through California. This baffles me– how is there no highway that just [...]
Day 6- Utah
28 June 2008We drove north from the grand canyon up to Utah and Bryce Canyon. Initially I thought this would be kind of a let down– how can you compete with the grand canyon?– but it was fantastic, even thought it took a mildly frustrating drive on one lane roads through arizona to get there. At one [...]