Monkey See, Monkey Do: Twitter.

When I started this blog, I had this idea I would share Alabama experiences which have been limited due in part to the confining heat. However, this last week was like a hot week in Iowa or Nebraska, you do not immediately start sweating once going outdoors but jeans are still not a good idea; it is tolerable in shorts and t-shirt. Additionally, school started here and so now we are suddenly living in a city with 25,000 hip, college kiddos. Since the invasion, I have noticed the college student vehicle of choice is a JEEP, the real kind with the roof that detaches. There has also been a growing number of Hummer sightings (H2's mostly). Nike shorts galore, every girl wears them in all colors of the rainbow, they are the Uggs of the south. I just want to take a moment to complain (I know, big surprise) about the drivers here. They are terrible. They drive too quickly, text, cut into lanes when making left hand turns and now with the college students here the problem has grown by nearly 25k times.

We are waiting for our first game day in town, which is the 4th of Sept. What will become of us? There are tiger signs everywhere, directing "game day" traffic this way and that. No RV parking signs. I am not sure I mentioned this before but I have seen churches with tiger mascots...I find that a little alarming. Could this be a crazier place than Lincoln, NE on a game day?

I am sure many of you are aware of the deep love I have for NPR. Well, my cup runneth over...NPR has a Pop culture blog called Monkey See. The writers and contributors on the blog are witty and intelligent. I recommend you check out their weekly podcast, Pop Culture Happy Hour. Hilarious yet informative. It is like having Jason and Tamara Hancock over to play scrabble, eat chocolate molten cakes and drink blood orange martinis. In fact, I joined Twitter so I could follow "my friends" from the PCHH on twitter which turned out to be a really serendipitous act of stalking because I found my friend Hedda on twitter. I then discovered Hedda's blog which I think has to be one of the most beautiful blogs that occasionally is tatooed with vet school photos of (insert latin word with gential or cyto or something with only a half a jaw). Could I write another sentence with twitter mentioned three times? Sure, but I will spare you.

I do however want to share this cosmic like wish that someday my brother will meet Linda Holmes, NPR's entertainment blog editor, he will dazzle her with his vast knowledge of all tv shows and movies ever made. (Remember my Adamisms?) They both love "How I met your Mother." I think they are solemates. She even likes football; Vikings football (sorry Dan).

And because I only have one brother, I am going to be extremely picky about who I pick to be my sister in law. :)