So! There is a lot I still need to write about the last year, in particular the cancer-related deaths of two of my professors over the summer, and the armed robbery that Sarah, my parents, and I were victims of in November. But it will have to wait! I recently returned from a class in Rome, Italy, and for my final project I committed to write in this blog about my experiences, and share some of the photographs I took. From this moment forward (until Friday morning), Rome! Rome if you want to, without anything but the love we feel!
No time to waste, let's hit those Three Good Things: 1. "Fifteen bucks for the whole seat but you'll only need the edge, Edge, EDGE!" An impossibly red, impossibly cute 1997 Suzuki X-90. It looks like a real-life Barbie car, a mini two-seater pickup, minus the bed and with a little spoiler on the back. Also it has a T-top. In college some buddies and I drove up to Cleveland one weekend to see the monster truck rally at the Gund Arena. Were we genuinely interested in it? Was it an act of willful irony? We were the last gasp of Generation X, so there is truly no way to know. What I remember most aside from the noise and fumes was that the promotion ran a contest in between "acts" where local schmoes could try their personal vehicles on the motocross track they'd constructed on the arena floor, with the fastest time taking home a cash prize. One of the first contestants roared out of the gate in a huge, very obviously brand new, very obviously expensively ...
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