SUMMER READING: YES, I READ A POEM ONCE, TRY NOT TO FAINT

Thursday, May 27, 2010 12:22:34 PM

I’ve been in this haze like state of existence since I got home. It’s equal parts exhaustion and culture shock. The shock being I’m no longer in an enormous bustling urban hive where there are coffee shops on every block, I can take public transportation everywhere and my food haunts are open till 2 am, but I’m in the country. The country, where the nearest cafe is 40 miles away, I have to drive everywhere, and in Fresno everything promptly closes at 11 pm. Also I’m pretty sure I got called a hippie the other day, however it's Fresno, it amuses me instead of offends.

That said, something came in the mail today that jump started my poor city deprived brain-