olympia 1, minneapolis 0

i'm all up in 2009 and it feels better than ever? something drastic changed in the midwest. i feel no real connection to this place when i drive from shoreview to the south city on the big freeway over the new blue bridge and there is just cold and gray but also really sunny and bright. still nothing, just can't seem to feel connected to this bright gray city of snow and bros and too much cheese. i was here in september, and there it was moving and bigger, there were crust punks and stink bombs in my basement and jail time! and the state fair with olykids hanging upside down yelling. surely this change is not just dependent on the weather.

the culture is different, i can see that when i went to the cheesecake industrial factory complex with my father and big sister and i ate nachos and a lot of free bread and looked around. it was christmas eve and the shops were closed but the factory was open and it was packed, jampacked, not just with jews like universal studios was on easter sunday but with people dressed up for cheesecakes and 15 dollar martinis. i wonder if i will like going to cheesecake factories and wearing high heels when i have a real job and a real life.

because, come march I have to make some Life Decisions, where I make a Move to Make Money or get some kind of Bigger Degree where I can Make Money. maybe i'll make a chess set like that guy right there. he's going to play some kind of a role in my life now, whether i like chess or not. Right Now, I am excited very excited to go back to olympia and see what kind of downtown the funky's become. because it changes all the time and we all feel things in it, we must feel things or we wouldn't fucking live there anymore.