happy.

we saw Guster this weekend in kansas city.

i am happy.

also, we saw hannah and eric, and tony got a swift tour of the vermillion i used to know so well. and then we saw greg and mandy and i got to listen to lots of theatre and movie talk. and we had a place to stay in vermillion AND in lincoln for free.

this weekend was.... big fat rain clouds, a magazine about the end of time, a cheese enchilada that came with chicken, adopt-able puppies online, three episodes of lost, the same RV twice in two days on the interstate, a hotel that only cost 41$, a godfather's pizza in which nothing has changed since 1996, or 1983, depending on which one of us was right, a very low saxaphone that sounded like electronic noise, the best seats in the house, amazing goat cheese truffles with flatbread mushroom pizza and eggplant cooked to look like (but not taste like) steak, gorillas, one super-long shower, three days of sleeping in, 6 tanks of gasoline, Thai food, three cities, four pairs of socks, appear-out-of-nowhere portapottys, big cats that hissed, one amazing record/cd/book store, and GUSTER. not in that order.

oh. but ruth's cocina is no longer the ruth's of yore. while quazi-nice, the red shag carpeting, meat hooks, and plastic chairs were much missed.

and we got a parakeet named gus. to keep our other one company.