Huh? What? Sorry, I was looking for a melodramatic re-entry to the Nyetverse, and after a rather insanely packed six weeks from May 20th - July 4th, this is all I could come up with:
TO DO LIST, IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER
1. Watch a sophomoric sex comedy featuring actors from one of your favorite TV shows with an NBA Finals MVP. Check.
2. Escape the hellacious trappings of a do-nothing winter only to find yourself in the more climate-wise accurate trappings of a hellacious summer. Check.
3. Gain something resembling but not actually remotely approaching internet fame (237 views!) for drunken idiocy at a wedding. Check.
4. Oh yeah, get married! To an extraordinary cutie in Beck! Check! It Out:
5. Drive 2900 miles in three days with a quick stopover in San Antonio. With beasts in tow. Check.
6. Leave a certain, full-time job as a math teacher at a school for the arts for an uncertain, no-job future in the Southwest. Um, check. Figure out what you want to do before you get to Phoenix. Un, check.
7. Buy a new Prius. Check.
8. WHAT? R U CRAZY? I thought you said in "6" that you had no J-O-... oh, wait, that's right, move to Sunny Azz because your now wife has a dope job as a veterinarian and can afford such things (so long as you figure out something to do within a reasonable amount of time). Also, said vet job needs to induce the phrase "turtle's prolapsed oviduct" within 2 days of starting. Check.
9. Play more "real" disc golf in the past month (10 rounds total in Rochester and Scottsdale) than you have since your last round at Rice in 2000, twice getting a sore arm because of over exuberant driving. Check, course reviews coming.
(Scores: +12, +8, +5, +4, 4, +4, +4, +3, +3, +2) (Seems we are progressing in the correct direction).
10. Speaking of frisbee, check out the local Ultimate scene and find it tragically lacking... Boston, you have spoiled me (though, to be fair, it is the middle of the summer and I haven't played in a league and/or checked out the club team yet). Actually, I should probably hold off until league play to assess this - in the meantime, I'll just get some pickup in. Check.
11. Become a "convenience factor" Diamondbacks fan, and tolerate it because none other than Fatty Fat Mark Grace is on announcer duty. And he is actually good / funny. Sweet. Check.
12. It should not be forgotten that in there I spent a week with my SLW (special lady-wife) hanging out on a beach in the Caribbean, reading a ton and generally getting our relaxation on at Honeymoon camp. Check, and that was awesome... if only I could remember what that looked like... (Click and stare for beach-view)
(Pardon me while I gaze longingly into the screen for a while)
...
(Actually, as long as we're waiting, check out the book / movie reviews that I owe you:
Time Traveler's Wife
Cosmopolis
Water for Elephants
Middlesex
Pan's Labyrinth
Babel
Knocked Up
And I'll probably finish Three Junes soon, too, so... get excited)
Also, during your honeymoon, watch your hometown team win the NBA Finals while a bunch of Cleveland fans cry. I may have mentioned this already. Check.
13. Remove a copious amount of wedding gifts from the guestroom of friends Dan & Christina. Check. (D & C have angled their way into probably "most frequent Nyetverse guests," btw).
(And lest you get all in a tizzy, thinking that some of your favorite characters have been written out of the script, fear not - Gringoat and Sarah-stophe have graciously agreed to visit Phoenix at least once per month and supply the 'verse with antic-filled shenanigans. Either that, or they'll e-mail me or something. We seriously miss you guys, btw... :( - but in all seriousness, your presence in Arizona this winter is mandatory).
14. Write thank you notes for all of those gifts... and boy are my arms tired. Check. Seriously, a big thank you to everyone who got our Scottsdale abode off to a great start.
15. Listen to this, the best new song in the history of holy pop radio, no fewer than ten times on our way across the country. Check.
Okay, I'm tired of that. I will throw together a pictorial account of St. Lucia and our cross country trek in the upcoming days, and I'll show you what hybrid living is all about. And I'll try to start a steady flow of Arizona pics / stories, plus I still owe that Boston in review thing. So much to do in the next few... in the meantime, check out this RIDICULOUS pic of Sparkle...
Back in effect... tune in soon for muy mas updates...
2. Escape the hellacious trappings of a do-nothing winter only to find yourself in the more climate-wise accurate trappings of a hellacious summer. Check.
3. Gain something resembling but not actually remotely approaching internet fame (237 views!) for drunken idiocy at a wedding. Check.
4. Oh yeah, get married! To an extraordinary cutie in Beck! Check! It Out:
5. Drive 2900 miles in three days with a quick stopover in San Antonio. With beasts in tow. Check.
6. Leave a certain, full-time job as a math teacher at a school for the arts for an uncertain, no-job future in the Southwest. Um, check. Figure out what you want to do before you get to Phoenix. Un, check.
7. Buy a new Prius. Check.
8. WHAT? R U CRAZY? I thought you said in "6" that you had no J-O-... oh, wait, that's right, move to Sunny Azz because your now wife has a dope job as a veterinarian and can afford such things (so long as you figure out something to do within a reasonable amount of time). Also, said vet job needs to induce the phrase "turtle's prolapsed oviduct" within 2 days of starting. Check.
9. Play more "real" disc golf in the past month (10 rounds total in Rochester and Scottsdale) than you have since your last round at Rice in 2000, twice getting a sore arm because of over exuberant driving. Check, course reviews coming.
(Scores: +12, +8, +5, +4, 4, +4, +4, +3, +3, +2) (Seems we are progressing in the correct direction).
10. Speaking of frisbee, check out the local Ultimate scene and find it tragically lacking... Boston, you have spoiled me (though, to be fair, it is the middle of the summer and I haven't played in a league and/or checked out the club team yet). Actually, I should probably hold off until league play to assess this - in the meantime, I'll just get some pickup in. Check.
11. Become a "convenience factor" Diamondbacks fan, and tolerate it because none other than Fatty Fat Mark Grace is on announcer duty. And he is actually good / funny. Sweet. Check.
12. It should not be forgotten that in there I spent a week with my SLW (special lady-wife) hanging out on a beach in the Caribbean, reading a ton and generally getting our relaxation on at Honeymoon camp. Check, and that was awesome... if only I could remember what that looked like... (Click and stare for beach-view)
(Pardon me while I gaze longingly into the screen for a while)
...
(Actually, as long as we're waiting, check out the book / movie reviews that I owe you:
Time Traveler's Wife
Cosmopolis
Water for Elephants
Middlesex
Pan's Labyrinth
Babel
Knocked Up
And I'll probably finish Three Junes soon, too, so... get excited)
Also, during your honeymoon, watch your hometown team win the NBA Finals while a bunch of Cleveland fans cry. I may have mentioned this already. Check.
13. Remove a copious amount of wedding gifts from the guestroom of friends Dan & Christina. Check. (D & C have angled their way into probably "most frequent Nyetverse guests," btw).
(And lest you get all in a tizzy, thinking that some of your favorite characters have been written out of the script, fear not - Gringoat and Sarah-stophe have graciously agreed to visit Phoenix at least once per month and supply the 'verse with antic-filled shenanigans. Either that, or they'll e-mail me or something. We seriously miss you guys, btw... :( - but in all seriousness, your presence in Arizona this winter is mandatory).
14. Write thank you notes for all of those gifts... and boy are my arms tired. Check. Seriously, a big thank you to everyone who got our Scottsdale abode off to a great start.
15. Listen to this, the best new song in the history of holy pop radio, no fewer than ten times on our way across the country. Check.
Okay, I'm tired of that. I will throw together a pictorial account of St. Lucia and our cross country trek in the upcoming days, and I'll show you what hybrid living is all about. And I'll try to start a steady flow of Arizona pics / stories, plus I still owe that Boston in review thing. So much to do in the next few... in the meantime, check out this RIDICULOUS pic of Sparkle...
Back in effect... tune in soon for muy mas updates...
No comments:
Post a Comment