How are you planning to spend the summer?
I’ve got a couple of bridal showers and a wedding. I hope to get to Chicago for a weekend to see the Leroy Jones Quintet and visit a friend from high school. I should probably email him to tell him I’m planning on dropping in… Anyway, other than that. Nothing really big planned. Read, watch movies, do some web stuff, and work on my Mary Kay business so I can make some money to spend friviously this fall. I’m also working on plans for the 30th Anniversary Alumni Band Banquet to be held Homecoming weekend in October. I’m a co-chair for this event with Doogie. So if you are an HMB alumni, mark your calendar for October 4th!

What was your first summer job?
Camp counselor at Summer Games, a Christian sports camp. [Note to self: volunteer to redesign that website. yikes.]

If you could go anywhere this summer, where would you go?
New Orleans for Satchmo Summerfest for good music, good food, and good freaks.

What was your worst vacation ever?
Honestly, I can’t think of a vacation that really leaps out as being horrible. Maybe I’m repressing, but, nope. Can’t think of one. Well, there was that one time in Nice and the train station and the dogs and the scary scary man in the green sweatsuit… Excuse me while I go rock quietly in the corner now.

What was your best vacation ever?
There needs to be some clarification of what I consider a “vacation.” I take lots of trips: to concerts, to museums, to sightsee, to visit friends. But I don’t consider those vacations. A vacation is meant for relaxation. I don’t take vacations very often. Which probably makes the few I have been on all the more memorable. And the best of the best would have been Jerry and Sara’s wedding in Jamaica last fall.

Best. Vacation. Ever.

Did your mom make them for you? Mine did. Actually on the rare occasion that she makes me pancakes, she still does.

Saturday morning, at sometime after 6 AM, I had the following dream:

It starts out with me with me and my Ankeny girls [12 girls I knew from chuch camp during high school] and we are headed to a baby shower for Sophia [a woman I know from connick.com, who is actually pregnant]. But we’re in the desert, walking a long distance and then we get to a cliff and we have to kind of jump [this comes from a scene in 'A Bug's Life' that I watched the night before, I'm sure]. Somehow we get down and we’re still in the desert, but now we are at Sophia’s baby shower. We’re sitting on couches outside with the requisite cow skulls and cacti surrounding us, all drinking margaritas. [I dont' know if Sophia was drinking them or not, but its a dream, it so doesn't matter.] I look around and realize that Tori Amos is there [and why she's there, I have no idea, since I'm not a fan or anything] and she’s got really long wavy red hair, its really fabulous. She’s getting really loaded.
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