Showing posts with label scenic highway. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scenic highway. Show all posts

Thursday, July 14, 2011

trapped in paradise


The only thing keeping me going is the thought that somewhere one of you is sitting at a desk wishing that you could be here.  I'm doing it for you, don't you understand?!

Still no word on how long its going to take to repair my car, thus I am stuck here in Florida for now.  I would like to go down to Ft. Lauderdale but not all by my lonesome.  I might have to just suck it up.

Maybe I should just get a mail order bride.  That could be fun, we'd surely become the best of friends.  Just me and mai ling v. the world.

I wish any number of my friends going to fancy pants law schools actually had a law degree so I could ask them for advice regarding situations like this.  Unfortunately I just get a lot of hemming and hawing when I manage to get Andrew on the phone.

I was telling Jon last night that I'm also trying to think of some kind of skill I can immerse myself in mastering.  I brought up fencing as an option which Jon felt was appropriately white for me.  I agree but I've always wondered how much of an investment fencing really is.  I mean I imagine you have to buy that funny white outfit and everything.  I certainly wouldn't want to wear a communal one.

But what are the practical applications of fencing?  Maybe, maybe, someday I would be confronted by a maniac in a spooky old castle and I would have to defend myself with the sword I pull from the coat of arms guarding my bedroom, but I see that as being as likely as me and mai ling becoming the best of friends.

Jon suggested learning a language which, while being a great suggestion, sounds like it involves a lot more "learning" than I'm really interested in right now.

I think I should figure out something to chronicle on my blog, Julie & Julia style.  But what?  Maybe I can incorporate my desire to go down to Ft. Lauderdale.  What's interesting about south florida that I can write about?  Tervis?  I think I've covered that pretty well.  Ooh maybe I should make my goal to meet Gloria Estefan and then just do whatever it takes to achieve that goal.  Knowing my luck I would get rear ended by her upon arriving in Miami, thus ending that great idea.

But I think I'm on to something here.  Maybe I can do a tour of scenic highways as seen from a freshly repaired roadster.  It would be helpful if I had somebody in the passenger seat to take pictures for me...

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hint hint...

I am going to go research Florida's scenic highways, please let me know when you are available to be my copilot, thanks.