Kyle Hepp

December 15, 2007

I’m bored, can you tell? I’m just sitting here waiting for friends to arrive at our apartment so we can go out. S. is napping until they get here so I’m forced to depend on myself (aka the internet) for entertainment.

I got this meme from Clare. The idea is to take the list of places and write about the memories you associate with each of them. Thanks Clare!

Alabama: Alabama is the land of “almost there but first you must sit in this eternal traffic jam.” We used to take a road trip every year to Florida to visit my mom’s parents. Of course my brother and I kept track of our progress according to how many states we had passed through. Alabama was the final frontier before Florida and it was always an eternal drive.
Alaska: I have never been there but I have a friend I love dearly who is from Alaska. She’s totally amazing and gorgeous so in my mind all Alaskans must be beautiful like super models as well as super cool. She’s set a high standard for them.
Arizona: Never been there either…but my Alaska friend went to school there.
Arkansas: Never been there. Bill Clinton. Enough said.
California: Want to go there. All my Flickr friends are from California and they’re all awesome, happy people. Seems like it’s something in the water there.
Colorado: U.S. Olympic Committee is based out of Colorado Springs. I hope that means someday I’ll have to move there for work related purposes
Connecticut: UConn, Diana Taurasi, never been there.
Delaware: Two of the girls I ended up becoming best friends with and living with were from Delaware and they called it Dullaware. Neither of them had a single good thing to say about the place.
District of Columbia: I was on a plane that touched down in D.C. once. I was traveling for my internship with United Soccer Leagues on my way to New Hampshire. I felt so cool that I was in an airplane and somebody else was paying for it.
Florida: Technically I’m from Michigan, but I tell people I’m from Florida. Tampa is the only place in the U.S. that sort of feels like home to me. I went to school there and will always have the best memories of that city. I would love to live there again some day if the U.S. ever gets its shit together enough for me to make me want to move back.
Georgia: I once took a road trip to South Carolina with a suite mate from there who ended up dropping out in the second semester because she hated University of Tampa. She made me try boiled peanuts in Georgia on the way there. I was shocked and disgusting. They are NASTY.