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[bedlamsbard]

"This is your heritage -- corn and beef, hard work and cowtipping, pickups and chainsaws. You have lived here in the center of the state and the corner of the nation."

Faculty speech at commencement last year.

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I'm only just realizing how totally completely *fucked* I'm going to be working hawker in winter. *woe*. It gets cold. I tell you. Of course, you'd know exactly what I'm talking about, since standing outside for six and a half hours.

*shivers* Thank God football season's over in November. Although you know, when we moved into the new school in January...they hadn't yet gotten the heaters working. So it was freezing cold. Literally. As in, the water pipe over the band room broke and flooded the band room with 4 or 5000 gallons of water. My sax was on the floor! First week back at school too, my God.

Your road on the map looks rather odd, actually. I mean... I know it looks different if one was *on* it, but it's this great big loop. With nothing surrounding it. And it's all the same road. But you expect it not to be.

Heh. Yeah, Riverbottom is a loop, only not actually a loop, just a U, because...Umptanum? Manastash? run across it. The road I was talking aobut was...I think it's Umptanum. I think. Could be Manastash. Probaly Umptanum. I'm outside town limits, so...actually, there pretty much is nothing surrounding it.

Dude. Teacher's college. ... why the hell are teachers colleges so often situated in like, the fuck of nowhere?

...they just wanted all the single women out of the cities, didn't they. *blinks*.

Heh. Probably. Better for us, though. *grin*

Farmington (UMF) and Salem used to be state normal schools as well; I am told that Farmington's bookshop once sold T-shirts declaring "WE USED TO BE NORMAL".

*sporfle* *wants* Man, why doesn't Jerrol's sell something like that?