Winners
Sunday, February 7th, 2010 | daily | No Comments
I had a text seconds after New Orleans won the Superbowl. “Who Dat?” it read and it came from Daniel who last week shared the news that he’s trying out for UW’s football team. That he remembered I’m from New Orleans, that he thought to text me, that I was one of the first people to hear of his good fortune…well, if all the guys were like that, I would have nothing outrageous to say and it would just kill the blog. Overall, it’s been a bad few days for this site, what with niceness breaking out all over the place–Brandon offering to take my garbage out three days in a row, Mitch behaving impossibly chipper despite midterms, and Blair offering technical advice in the most diplomatic way possible, when, after I’d spent three hours in a simmering rage, unable to access the internet and place my order, he leaned over and gently asked, “you wouldn’t have your wireless turned off, would you?”
Wanderlust
Thursday, February 4th, 2010 | daily | 2 Comments
“Do you think we need a visa?” my husband asked minutes after I booked and paid for a Spring Break trip to Vietnam. And yes, we do. We’d been thinking a long time about where to go and it was as we were enjoying the sensual pleasures of Long Provincial restaurant on Second and Stewart that it hit us. Vietnam! So we applied and when I discovered this morning that someone from Ho Chi Minh City had spent 4 1/2 minutes reading Fraternity Kitchen, I realized that this satirical blog could be standing in the way of me and my visa to a fabulous exotic food-centric wonderland. “Do they understand it’s a JOKE!” I lamented to Brandon, who assured me I was way over-thinking this. “You’re not political,” Kirk told me flatly when I related the story to him, and then went on to tell me he’s never been anywhere outside the country. ”Not even Mexico or Canada?” I asked, incredulous. ”Well, Canada,” he granted as if that wasn’t foreign, which just confirms every Canadian’s fear.