Wow It's Really Really Nice Out

That was a crazy weekend. Two canoe trips, front row at a Keller Williams concert, two Grateful Dead cover bands (!), a total fail of a crew regatta, lots of plastic getting tossed around, s'mores, a 10 page research paper, climbing on roofs, napping on the quad (in my beanbag obviously), and lots of other fun stuff. Thank god yesterday was sorta damp and chilly, otherwise that research paper and accompanying presentation never would've gotten done. Today represents a return that magical land where it's over 80, grass is being cut, mulch is being laid down, and the hockey team is shirtless.

- Trying to assemble a summer club frisbee team feels far more intrigue-laden than it has any right to be. Likewise with trying to get everyone on the same page for a potential roadtrip.

- THE SOX HAVE WON 10 IN A ROW, JUST SWEPT THE YANKS, AND JACOBY STOLE HOME. Yeah.

- Larry King is creepy.

- I don't know if you followed the fairly epic fight that just finished in Oklahoma: The song "Do You Realize?" has officially be selected as the state song. A while back there was an online poll to choose the state song, open to the public, and in a rare move of awesomeness the song by The Flaming Lips (who hail from the panhandle) was selected. Then the movement reached the Oklahoma House of Representatives, where things got fun. The band was accused of having communist sympathies (so what? we won that war, guys...), and the debate featured the following quote from Rep. Mike Reynolds, who was outraged by the band's use of profanity: "Their lips ought to be on fire." There you go, Midwest. Way to reassert your crazy. But over the weekend the governor weighed in and said that "Do You Realize?" had won the poll and would instituted as state song by executive order.

- CNN keeps running the headline "Newest Obama is a Shoe-Chewer," and I keep on just reading "Obama is a Shoe-Chewer" and being completely mystified.

- So. Swine flu. Seems important enough to warrant mentioning here, but I don't have anything to say about it. Can't really see it affecting Canton NY...

- I just watched the latest episode of Family Guy on Hulu, and I do believe I got every reference, which is definitely a first. It featured direct call-outs to Silence of the Lambs, He-Man, Goonies, all sorts of fun stuff.

- AH! In less than two weeks I'll be back in Andover... which will be awesome but a little bit sad.