You know, my apartment in Iowa City is like a block away from an entire strip of bars. >D

[gogmagog]

Today was fun - went out to Borders to pick up a birthday present for my stepdad, then hung out with rathershady and our former coworkers Jill and Victoria at Mike's Tavern. Oddly enough, though I've gone to school just a couple of blocks away for most of my life, It's the first time I'd ever been there. It is pretty much a college-student dive (and the fact that they had construction going on didn't help the classy ambience any). Still, it was fun to hang out there with everyone. Afterwards, we went to Governor Stumpy's - I'd dragged Vinnie there a couple of times, and Jill had stopped by for my graduation party, but Victoria hadn't been there before and I think she enjoyed it. And I'm fairly certain the one bite of lemon cake she ate for dessert made her a believer. >D

I've been glad I've been keeping relatively busy this week; it's done a pretty good job of distracting me. June is always a hard time of the year - the 12th was my dad's birthday (on which I didn't call him, figuring I'd wait till Father's Day, something I'll probably always regret), he died late on the 14th, and I heard about it on Father's Day (which was the 15th that year). So basically from the 12th through Father's Day is kind of teh suck. On Saturday I'm going down to Higginsville to visit the veterans' cemetery where my dad is buried (well, his ashes anyway). And hopefully that'll put an end to this difficult part of the year.

Also, my sister is coming up from Phoenix to visit in mid-July. It'll be nice to see her again, since I haven't seen her for a couple of years (not since right after Daddy died and I got back from England).

In cheerier news, some positive linking:
- A new King Tut exhibition has opened in L.A. I'm totally seeing this when it comes to Chicago (since that's only a 3-hour drive from Iowa City).
- This is an interesting article about gender and the brain. At least, I find this kind of stuff interesting. -_-;
- And stolen from jokersama, the BBC's opinion on the Michael Jackson verdict. XD

Edit: Wow, my mouth is like lusting for strawberry. I had a strawberry smoothie earlier and a frozen strawberry margarita with dinner and my mouth is still "AUGH GIVE ME STRAWBERRY GRAR." But I have no strawberry-flavored stuff to give it. ;_;

Comments

[angrybabble.livejournal.com]

mine was on S Van Buren too! :D But seriously, there is an organic grocery store on S Van Buren, across the street from the PD, and next to it is a white house, and that is where I used to live (the cross-street is the street Phillips Hall is on). My dim visualisation of the area says you live more in the direction of the dorms on S Van Buren?

I think it'd be fun to visit you there sometime T_T it's too bad Iowa's so far away now :(

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

What a coincidence! :D

And I think you're probably right about living more in the direction of the dorms. But I can't say for sure, given that my grasp of Iowa City geography is even more tenuous than my grasp of Kansas City geography. XD

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

And who knows, knowing rathershady I may have reason to come and visit Colorado some time! :D