Hicksville, USA

In my attempt to obviously do anything but sleep tonight, I came across some interesting facts about my super-hickish state of Washington. I lay these before you... laugh as you will:

Washington State Symbols:

flower: coast rhododendron (1892)
tree: western hemlock (1947)
bird: willow goldfinch (1951)
fish: steelhead trout (1969)
gem: petrified wood (1975)
colors: green and gold (1925)
song: “Washington, My Home” (1959)
folk song: “Roll On Columbia, Roll On” (1987)
dance: square dance (1979)
grass: bluebunch wheatgrass (1989)
insect: blue darner dragonfly (1997)
fossil: Columbian mammoth (1998)
fruit: apple (1989)

The sight of this makes me want to move onto a farm and start pickin' at the banjo, but I guess that really wouldn't be too far of a stretch... considering that you pretty much have to drive south with your windows rolled up and internal air blasting to avoid the smells of rural Washington any further south of Fife. Shew-ee am I sure as heck glad that I's live in the city with all them internal plumbin' and such. But seriously. Don't these attributed state symbols seem a bit out-dated? Not according to the evidence, it's not! I mean really- was square dancing really that popular in 1979?

I guess I did feel a bit better after seeing that Washington isn't completely alone in giving the fine art of square dancing such high honor, and that contrary to popular belief, California's state dance is not the C-walk. I also got a nice chuckle out of the fact that Oregon's state drink is milk and Conneticut's state animal is the spirm whale. Immature? Some may say so.


In other news...

I am most likely moving out of the dorms and into a house with a couple friends next quarter. Freedom sounds so so sweet... and not to mention the extreme reduction in the cost of food- my bank accound is glows at the thought already.

Adam comes home tomorrow!!! (And by tomorrow I mean Thursday)

Patrick and I took a road trip up to Western on Saturday and I got to visit all of my super-awesome friends that I havn't seen FOR-E-VER! It was super sweet, and I even got to go up to Canada for a few hours and have my first legal drinks! Yay for Canada and Friends!

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(1. A giant IHOP pancake in Bellingham. 2. Billy being awesome as always!)

I am now tired and in need of sleep.