I got lucky in Kentucky because I made it out alive

Hey, dudes. I really went camping. It was good times, except for the Confederate flags that dotted the more bustling areas of Slade, Kentucky (pop. 38). Here's a tip, Sladians: the South will not rise again, and your stupid flags are racist. My favorite display was at this little diner-y lunch spot we went to that had a Confederate flag hanging right above a portrait of Lincoln. WTF?

That same restaurant also had this amazing little poster/chart from the 1950s that helpfully informed you how your kid will turn out if you treat them in certain ways. For instance, if you treat your child with hostility, he will be violent! If you treat him with ridicule, he will be shy! Thanks for saving us lots of money on therapy, random poster.

Oh, and we fought a snake. Film at 11.

Hello, Wisconsin!

Spring! The birds are chirping, the flowers are blooming, I am procrastinating, and Midwesterners are getting married. This weekend I journeyed in a rented Prius to my mom's old stomping grounds  to celebrate the wedded bliss of two very nice people who I had never met before. Beautiful wedding, though! You haven't heard the Song of Songs 'til you've heard it read with a Minnesota accent. Due to my heathen-y, unbaptized state, I had to awkwardly stay seated during the Communion part of the ceremony, but better that than be smited by a vengeful God, I say. And I got to cross another state off my list. Since moving to the Midwest I have now visited for the first time Indiana, Missouri, and Wisconsin, and I am soon to see the Bluegrass State. That's right, I am going CAMPING this weekend in Kentucky. Anyone who knows me well, or indeed has talked to me for about five minutes, knows that camping is not my go-to form of recreation. In fact, as a child, my family would force me to go hiking, and my mother bribed me with M&Ms so that I would keep on putting one tiny, weary foot in front of the other. However! I am going with very fun people, and I am optimistic that this will be a good time. We can always drink, right?

I am pretty much the last person in GSLIS to be still working on a paper. Yes, blogging is my way of doing work. Here is my 100% accurate log of paper-writing:

7:45 AM  Up and at them! Let's work on that paper, eh? Then I can have fun tonight.

8:00 Can't do anything without coffee. I'll make instant to save time.

8:30 AM Oh, man, I forgot about my laundry. Folding time! Folding timmme, every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end...

9:00 AM Hmm, maybe I will work better at the public library. I'll just walk on over.

9:30 AM Ooh, look, the library has the new US Weekly! That Jon & Kate scandal--I just can't resist.

10:00 AM Ok, paper. Hey, my paper is about Facebook, so I should probably do some research by stalking people I went to high school with.

10:30 AM Hey, my paper is about Twitter, so I should probably do some research by stalking current grad school friends.

11:00 AM Why do so many celebrities Twitter? I will read some celebrity gossip and get to the bottom of this.

11:30 AM I haven't blogged in a while! Got to say what's up to the adoring public.

And so on. Amazingly, I have 8 of 10 pages done. That is all that stands between me and being 60% done with library school!!