I love you, man

It's hard to blog about Kansas (and to be funny about it) when you're sitting in an apartment in Maryland that's filled with half-packed boxes of clothes and furniture. Honestly, it's giving me a headache every day. So I apologize for the multi-week gap in content here, but I'm refreshed and the blog is back!

I went to Kansas last weekend for a quick visit, and to meet some of Allison's new friends. We had a good time, and it seems like there is a cool crowd of her classmates that are getting along with each other already. It's too early to write about everyone, so I'll wait until they have embarrassing stories to tell. But one thing I learned is that it's STUPID to take a Friday-night-to-Sunday-afternoon trip halfway across the country. I finished one book (My Way by Ralph Friedgen) and started-and-finished another one (Fight Club) aboard AirTran, but next time I'm taking a day or two off of work. Here's what I learned about myself on this trip to The Little Apple - the "J Bollen" persona that many of you have come to know will not be in business in Kansas. There are enough 18-to-22 year old white dudes walking around the streets of that cow town with their "buttmunch" humor and "I love you, man" drunken antics...it will be wise for me to drop my usual public shenanigans and mouthy tendencies, and seek alternative ways to draw attention to myself. Enter Blogspot. More later on my trip to Kansas, including my recap of the bar that I plan to take Luimbe to on his first visit to Aggieville...

By popular (one person) request, I'm gonna throw out some music suggestions periodically on this blog:

Album - Promise of Summer by Jackopierce - it's in my favorite music category (wuss rock with pedal steel) and would make a good study CD for those of you who are in vet school. With song titles like "Come On July" and "Promise of Summer", and then a sad song called "March", you would think he meant to release this album in April? Think Wallflowers without Jakob Dylan's annoying vibe.

Songs - Sweetness in Starlight by Matt Wertz - another wuss-rock selection...I chose this song because I actually saw stars this weekend. When you're in the city and suburbs for a few years, you forget how cool those simple things are. I'm sure in 4 years I'll be saying "When you're in Kansas for a few years, you forget how badly you want to have the option to choose which Target to go to."

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The America Song by Stephen Kellogg & the Sixers - my favorite song by my favorite band...if this song doesn't make you think of what life must be like in Kansas, nothing will. I'm becoming beautiful...