5 Month Synopsis

07.2008

lease was up. utah backed the truck into the yard and we packed up all of my possessions. said goodbye to the white house. headed north. spent a couple weeks in solitude. taking showers, reading books. new glasses, more reading. trips back to des moines and pella. fatty's going away show, five straight days with taylor in pella and des moines. taylor and i breaking up. tossing some of fatty's belonings at the mason city east side kum and go. contacted lewis after some deliberation, hung with him. met bender. continued to hand with bender. everyday. turned twenty to little fanfare. scared of being an adult. lots of walks in east park, trips to the library, trips to the mall. rediscovering and falling in love with the city of my childhood. coaching certification classes start. trip to chicago with mom on the backroads. lost in downtown glen ellen at two in the morning. mom found me with the help of a train. trip to milwaukee with dad and ty. cubs sweep brewers. time spent in front of the hilton all night conversing with anyone and everyone walking by. back to mason city, via getting lost in madison. more hanging with bender and sweet lou.

08.2008

register for classes, contact old profs, and get ready for the newspaper season to begin. everyday cruises with bender to learn the ins and outs of the greater mason city area. discover rock falls fun days. finish coaching certification and prepare for the start of school. see hannah. anticipation builds for her to move back at the start of school. hannah moves back, visit the dorms on the first day, still a place i didn't enjoy being. school starts with a flourish and i am prepared. spend lots of time bender. meet nela and nicole at pond fest. spend time at kyle, kurtis and heather's humble abode playing pong and passing time.

09.2008

school continues. all classes going well, perfect attendance all month. work catering at niacc for decent pay, and it is good enough to get by. coffee and shopping trips with hannah, and emotions start to get involved. i bail on the whole situation, a silent oath of silence begins between the two of us. start making plans for the mason-bender project, and jam a lot in the practice rooms. playing lots of piano in the practice rooms all times of day. football stats with piper, the ellsworth meltdown, and then a good trip to chicago. trip back home upon the arrival of fatty pro back in the state. lemming race, lake cruise, never have i ever in the studio, scotch with mr. bandstra, and lots of great conversation. more conversation with fatty and john back at the bravo hotel until the lights go out and a brick smashes the store window. a barefoot chase, a cornering, a daring escape by our prey, help from unlikely sources, and the evenual arrest of some meth heads. police statements in the morning. back to mason city on no sleep for football stats. hanging with nicole, nela, and echo. volleyball games and b-dubs afterwards. hanging with brophy, bender, sweet lou, and a cast of others. meet steve in sociology which leads to good times with him, riley, sean, and big z at their place. lots of football watching. interview with jill biden that would eventually lead to national recoginiton at the national college journalism conference. lots of newspaper stories. lots of newspaper photos. rose bowl shows complete with dancing and crazy metal heads threatening lives for cases made on unsubstanciated evidence. more parties with nicole and nela. fights with hannah at soccer games, leaves changing, the air getting cooler, and october coming far too slow.

10.08

more soccer matches and volleyball games. more b-dubs. watching sex and the city with kyla, nicole, and bree. done with hannah, i think for good. more hanging with echo, joining sb, and spending pleanty of time at isacc's. visits from casper the unfriendly ghost. buffalos in nora springs with echo. miss a couple of classes. cruising with bender. making plans for the train wrexs. trips to iowa city and des moines with dan to see in defense, tyborn jig, hewhocorrupts, aeon grey, and a host of others. bum around with kyler, jill, luke, and maddie. good times had by most i suppose. pablo's burritos. start eating vegetarian as an experiment. work on halloween costumes: pirate, race car driver, mr. ryner. kacie's birthday, halloween party, and the subseqent weekend lead to us spending a lot of time together. silence with bender for a couple of weeks. less time with sweet lou. no going home. football ends, no more stats. meet jay jim through erin, spend a lot of time with him cruising around and hanging at wes and preston's places. halloween party at echo's with brophy, shirtless was the fashion. high fives in the upstairs hallway for all the boys.

11.08

start dating kacie. start working at the dorm's as a runner. start hanging with bender and at sweet lou's place again. spend more time jay and meet a flurry of people. spend time at preston's dominating in madden with little effort. enjoy work immensly and hang with matt daily on the way home. get to know the lady at kum and go. miss several classes. head to north dakota and minnesota with sb, weird, good, and fun times had. fooseball in alexandria, hot tub with a creeper in fargo. wisdom teeth out and bleeding all over the stage. breaking a kids nose with a roundhouse kick. couture vs. lesner at wes and justin's place, not my scene, but a good time none the less. thanksgiving at sweet lou's with the whole crew a success. thanksgiving in the cities kind of dull, but none the less good. back to mason to hang with bender and then kacie. kacie got sick in my basement that night. down to pella the next day. spend a lot of time with fatty, who is still stuck in the same rut as always, but just as loveable. stopped by the cops on the way to see coop at the holiday inn with mase, jay, and fatty. jay preforms brilliantly, no jail for us. george's pizza and marty saucebowl followed by some time at the row. meeting with debi outside the video store on her bike with the pup. stop by satch's place and see aric, ryan, claire, satch, tanner and john; also satch's new friend. back to town. christmas light display is marvelous as always. sleeping at the wolf hangar with a cat stomping on my face. wake up, to the row, through knoxville, around the lake and back to the row. north to wyatt's and wavy. back to town and over to r. paul's. jam with fatty and john incredible. visit the momma next door. over to the pientenpol house to meet up with kileen and alex. leave and go to alo's. see caroline, rachel, taylor, clay and a host of others. feel awkward and bail back to theta. run into vito and matt, cruise out to matt's, then back to theta. get swallowed by a whale with nothing but the devil's quench to satisfy. conversations with jay, dingle, manish, kileen, and alex. eventually get spit out by the whale and end up on the porch watching the snow with kileen and dingle. move jay into living room. say goodbye to dingle. wake up, escape pella. treck to the southside for ty's christmas present, and then snaking through des moines with jay. back to mason city.