Monday, February 20, 2012

culture shock and 80s flashback


I took the opportunity this week to freak out about living in Indiana. I then stepped it up a notch and visited the Chicagoland suburbs on Saturday which further magnified the intensity of the freak out. It only really gets bad when I leave the house or have to deal with the school. I keep finding myself in scenes from Footloose and can only hope that Kevin Bacon will dance through at any moment...


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    1. I sat in the Trader Joe's parking lot, my Chipotle Grill lunch on my tummy and wanted to cry thinking about driving back into Indiana. It is such a depressing drive to drop out of Chicago into Gary.

      And then we wake up this morning to the story about an Indiana lawmaker accusing the Girl Scouts of promoting sex. Stupidity at it's finest. He probably looks like the John Lithgow character in Footloose.

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