Saturday, May 31, 2008

Things to Love About Minnesota

  • The lady at Target who is intrigued by your purchases, leading to a conversation about law school, dogsitting, and the eventual discovery of a mutual friend... in Boston.
  • The woman who made a sign (!!!) to point out to me that my gas cap was open, and then made her husband drive extra fast in order to pass me, so that she could hold up the sign and wave.
  • The teenagers who look you in the eye and say hello (FIRST!) on the sidewalk. What??
  • The sky. Sure it's scary when there's a tornado warning, and you can capture a funnel cloud on cellphone video (anyone know how to download that?), but it's also purple and pink and SO huge and pretty.
  • A bar with board games. Nuff said.
  • Smoking bans.
  • Barack FREAKING Obama is going to be here on Tuesday. Yeaaah, I'm gonna be there.
  • Running into people you know everywhere you go, even though you moved away 2.5 years ago; causing said people to be teary-eyed (and blogger to be so as well).

Minnesota. So nice. I love the midwest. I just can't say how much I love it here. It makes me insanely happy to be here, doing nothing in particular.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

aaagh, you are going to make me cry!! Nothing like moving away to make me love the MN...I do recall all the things that made me want to move away at least for a while, but at least the sky was blue (or purple, or hot pink, but not hazy DC yellow) in the summer!