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Anniversarah
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As of today, it’s exactly one year to the day since the Special Lady Friend and I arrived in Maine, fresh off our 4,300 mile odyssey, moving back from Seattle. (Although, if you want to be pedantic about it, this is a leap year, so technically yesterday was exactly 365 days. Luckily, I am not pedantic.)
It’s been an eventful year. Since setting up shop back on the East Siiiide, I’ve
- Gotten married
- Changed careers
- Reached the statistical halfway point of my expected lifespan
- Cheered for not one, but two championships by professional franchises from my general geographic area, which of course covers me in vicarious, unearned glory
- Been bitterly disappointed by a third. (Yes, I realize I’m ridiculously spoiled. It’s not as if anyone from, say, Seattle would have any pity for me at all)
- Posted treasonous, objectively pro-Elitislamohomoliberofascist insults of Dear Leader on no fewer than 19 occasions (ok, so maybe that’s not a big change)
After being away from my home state for the better part of a decade, I can say it’s changed quite a bit. I used to curse the place for being too conservative and claustrophobic, but an interesting thing happened while I was gone: Mainers have loosened up quite a bit. There’s state-run health insurance for the poor, every 8th grader gets a laptop, the Green Party has official standing, marijuana laws are fairly lax, and George W. Bush is staggeringly unpopular, even in Kennebunkport.
In fact, given its large size, low population density, large swathes of pristine wilderness, and odd mix of rednecks and hippies, Maine less resembles its urbanized, overpopulated Northeast neighbors than a large, Western state.
Except, of course, that here, the sun rises out of the ocean, instead of setting in it. As it should be.
4 Comments
2 Kables
Congrats my man.
Written on October 13, 2007 at 10:21 pm
3 Aaron
Wait, back that up a sec. You root for the Patriots, Celtics…and Yankees? You realize that’s against the law, right? No really, there’s still a statute against it on the books in Massachusetts, dating from 1621, signed by Miles Standish himself:
“Rootyng for the Brigandly Sportyng Organisations from the Most Foule City of Newe Amsterdam shall be Punishable by No Less than Fortie Blowes About the Face, Neck and Pantaloons, to be Adminster’d with a Lead-Filled Red Stockyng.”
It’s all true, man. Hate to be the bearer of bad news.
Written on October 14, 2007 at 1:21 am
4 Woeful
Welcome back to the right coast! We’re amazingly similar in many ways you and I. In the last year I too have married, and turned 37. We both share a fiery hatred for GWB, and a love of music. I was very disappointed by the Pats loss (to say the least) as well, and I was also happy that the Celtics beat LA… That said, there are some fundamental differences too as illustrated by your choice of baseball heroes… But nobody’s perfect… LOL (Yes, I’m a Yankees fan).
Written on October 14, 2007 at 6:42 am
1 Woeful
Ha! My football team is actually the Redskins, but I find myself rooting for the Patriots in every other scenario. I’m also a huge NY Rangers fan!
Written on October 13, 2007 at 7:32 pm