Spring Break 2010
Trinity and I have different spring breaks this year, mine comes up first running from today until a week from next Monday. Hers is at the end of the month. And yet we managed to get a vacation of sorts in over the last few days. Our friends, Bill and Brenda of Sunset Acres Bed and Breakfast invited us to stay at their home for ten days while they traveled to Florida for a much needed vacation. We eagerly took them up on the offer and have been out here since last week.
So life, at least in between classes, has been a slice of what I imagine Birmo's life might be like. Oh, we don't have a gold plated hovercraft in a silo below the pool, but we do have a hot tub.
Er, no ninja bunnies either. Trinity said, "No ninja bunnies unless I get some ninja Chipendales."
Fair enough.
That said, we've been sleeping pretty good in spite of the need to wake up early for our respective morning classes. It is an hour long drive from Sunset in Odessa to Kansas City proper. Still, we don't have noisy neighbors or rattling trains to keep us up all night.
If I ever do get that novel contract and a tenured position, I think my first purchase is a little place in the country of my own. Yes sir.
Spring Break Night of Mayhem at the Pod
Well, it won't really be a night of mayhem. How can you top the doings of Birmo and Flinthart in the Tas Babes Fisaco? I just don't see that happening, but we are anticipating a decent sized crowd of fifteen to twenty guests. I suppose there would be more if Richard Branson had Spaceship Three up and running with a special stop in Kansas City. That said, twenty plus is probably all we can handle space wise.
In fact, we are starting to think that maybe a larger place is needed for our parties.
Trinity will be doing up a nice beef brisket, potato salad and green bean casserole. I'm not sure what I am making yet aside from a meat and cheese plate. I'll have to ponder the matter some. I think cooking up a pot of chili is probably out.
When it is all said and done, a few of us will retire to Sunset for a bit of late night chat, maybe a few games, beverages and that sort of thing.
And as is tradition, I do believe I am responsible for breakfast on Sundays. So I'll be cooking up for our friends, who plan on getting married in May. If the money situation works out right (it probably won't, but you never know) we hope to be there with them in Florida when the ball and chains are attached.
After this weekend, I'll have to knuckle down and get some work done.
So it goes.
Respects,
Steven Francis Murphy
Author of The Limb Knitter and Tearing Down Tuesday
North Kansas City, Missouri
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