Yup that's what I look out on here in beautiful downtown Minneapolis. I explored a bit right when I got here (mostly to fight off 2 hours of airplane confinement). It is a titch windy here. I assume that is abnormal, but what the hell do I know. I look down on a church that looks like a combo of the Cathedral of the Madelene and First Pres in Salt Lake. Minneapolis and SLC have a lot in common, I think--scandanavians and what not. The buildings, of course, look bigger here simply because there is nothing to compare them too aside from the mighty Mississippi, which, isn't all that mighty up here.
I'll keep an eye out for Paul Bunyon, Laura Ingalls-Wilder and Mary Tyler Moore for you. I'm sure they're around somewhere--probably all hanging out at the convenience store/Asian market/liquor store out behind my fancy-pants hotel. (More on find fun in faux-privelege later.)
Why, oh why are you in Minn.? I hate it when you, or anyone else of my colleagues, are out of town. It disturbs the balance.
ReplyDeleteAt least it's a quick jaunt to either salvation or inebriation.
ReplyDeletePerhaps we all need to go to the same conferences all the time. Shut down the English dept. for a week and head to the midwest.
ReplyDeleteoh, if only the view from my minneapolis hotel were so nice--it is not. It is just the wall of another tall building. but I have a kitchen in my hotel room and you do not.
ReplyDeleteOoo... if you see Mary Tyler Moore, will you catch her beret for me and take it home as a souvenier?
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