Dead Sea Scrolls, Chi-Town, Hawks, and Happiness

Yay! Spring break! Doubleplus Yay!

So, Spring Break 2007.

Best. Break. Ever. No, not really, (Maybe!) but it is up there.

So, I have been requested to blog a little bit, and blog a little bit I shall.

So, I just used 'so' three times in 5 sentences. What a lazy writer, this Jarrod punk. So, sue me.

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Start: Friday at 3 AM in Lawrence, KS.

Ack and I journey to Chi-town. We arrive around Noon. Best driving of my life. There is something pretty damn Huck Finn'ish about about driving over the Mighty Mississippi (no spell check needed, thankee sai) through Hannibal, MO, at 7 or so in the morning as the sun comes up listening to The Weight by The Band. (Take a load off fanny, and (and) (and) you can put the load right on me.)

Yeah, it was going to be a good weekend.

Highlights:

• Soccer at Galway Arms with a genuine Irish barkeep serving Guinness at 10 in the morning on St. Patty's day. Ack teaching me the intricacies of European soccer leagues and clubs. Go Arsenal!
  
• Chilling with AJ. (Like it is every time I see him, goddamn it Jarrod, hang out with this man)
• Imagining life as my cousin in Chi-town's Lincoln Park. Our best guess was that there was 200 bars in 5 square miles.
• KU winning twice by a combined margin of victory of 52.
• Wandering with Ack.
• Thinking of Topeka.
• AJ and cab rides.
• Having an amazing cousin who would shelter us rambunctious animals for a couple of nights in her incredible Lincoln Park studio apartment with a view of Lake Michigan.
  

Lowlights:

• 1000 miles in 72 hours + 10-14 No Doz. + St. Patty's day in Chicago = Sick Jarrod
• Six dollar Shoe Shines "You don't gotta do shit, I gotta stay in the cold! Gimme my six dallas!" (absolutely a story there, I'll tell you over a beer sometime)
• The cheapest beer we could find wasn't. Expensive weekend.

End: Monday at 4:30 AM in Overland Park.

My dad was just leaving the house for Houston, Texas. Fun parallelism. I am arriving and he is leaving at the same time to two very different objectives. Him: business and making money. Me: sleep.

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Here is a partial list of music Ack and I listened to for the 18 hours of driving:

• Rolling Stones, Beatles (especially post August 18, 1964), Gorillaz (both Demon Days and their self-titled album), Radiohead (OK Computer, Hail to the Thief, and Live on MTV), Arctic Monkeys, Johnny Cash Live at Folsom Prison (Jez: 25 Minutes to Go still haunts me), Blow OST, Easy Rider OST, and Wicked (yah, judge us, Ack and I rockin' out to Wicked at 2 in the morning, singing Broadway. [ Wonderful / They called me "Wonderful" / So I said "Wonderful" - if you insist I will be "Wonderful" / And they said "Wonderful" / Believe me, it's hard to resist /'Cause it feels wonderful/They think I'm wonderful])

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Since then, life has been, let's just say wonderful.

Today, my fam and I visited Union Station to see the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit. Unbelievable. I need to have another blog post to really say what I want to say about that because this post is getting rather long. (And for the record, not inspired by green beer nor Lake Michigan.)

More to come soon, world! Go Hawks!