these people love college football! the midwest has been pretty cool i guess, cedar rapids was pretty desolate… they are still recovering from some huge flood a few years ago and the streets were pretty barren at night, not a whole lot going on. the city as a whole seems to be hidden or just really spread out- its supposed to have over 100K but who knows. checked out some jazz last night at the lighthouse, a very yuppy place and it was more like lounge music than true jazz… slight disappointmenti guess. today i worked at the downtown farmers market- thats really where the city came alive. probably around 10,000 people and hundreds of street vendors. i made the mistake of eating at the “wrong” breakfast burrito stand, my burrito smelled like hot dogs, not too enjoyable. the stand was called “big daddys dogs” and lacked quite a bit of punctuation. really gross overall. lots of produce being sold and lots of people just happy to be out and about on the gorgeous iowa morning.

would i come back to the midwest? probably not unless i had a really great reason. people were not overly interesting or overly nice as the midwest is kind of fabled to produce “kind, hospitable folk” i think the flood still has a lot of the city repressed and hurting from all the damage it did. perhaps i should look up the flood and try and get some real facts on it… regardless- i love the east coast and am excited to fly back… yes, even though im going to connecticut.

anyways, i am also continuing to study for my big test in a few weeks… totally unprepared but hopefully i can make some more improvements in the next few weeks and boost my score a bit.

currently reading “shutter island”, it is really great so far although i cant help but picture leo dicaprio in my head (sidenote: leo is starring in the scorcese adaptation of the novel, some of it filmed at borderland in sharon ma near my house! i am not just dreaming of leo on an island, i only do that before bed!) and i am totally stoked to hopefully finish most of it on my two flights this afternoon.

certainly looking forward to getting back home though, i recently got hired for full time at fieldstone and will celebrate this weekend with Kat and probably her friends as well as my brother.

in summation, iowa is not for me, get me home!

sincerely,

miguellie

so i started work a few weeks ago in connecticut, and i like it. i get to sit on my computer for most of the day and throw together powerpoints, read nytimes articles, play with socialmedia sites for the company etc. AND im getting paid!

whats better is that i am just taking a vacation from the crazy day to day activities that have stretched me paper thin in the past, and focus on something new, i needed a change big time.

back to work: its casual (i forgot to put on shoes and wore red adidas sandals to work, NBD), and i can learn a lot here about what its like to run a successful small agency/ business.

i am getting a new phone next month, since im now in the real world, probably the curve… but who knows!