Ames sweet Ames
A Chronicle of my journey to Ames

A journey of any sorts first requires a plan. A plan of massive scale 10x the size of the journey. With maps and charts, and blueprints, and crew manifests, weapons, all to be planned organized and acquired….. most journeys anyways. This journey however was a little different, it sat as a plan inside my head pretty much up until the very last minute. At that moment I sprung the plan upon the master planers, my parents. The exact time was Thursday evening before the Friday that we were to leave and my plan consisted of “Could you drop me off in Ames and then come and pick me up later?” This didn’t go to well the plan was modified but it was still on.
(move 14 hours in the future)

We arrive at the Fredrickson Court community center I get out grab my bags and jump out of the moving car (didn’t quite happen like this.. close though). A suddenly homeless man with nothing but the clothes on my back…. and in my bag…. and my computer… iPod….. necessary power adapters an cables….. toothbrush… yeah so a bit more than the clothes on my back. Anyways the point is that I was on my own again. Living at the house wasn’t quite the same as it used to be but it wasn’t as bad as people lead it to seem… it was till good to be on my own though.

The first plan that I had for the day in my head was to visit Hawk. Every time I talk to him, go somewhere with him, do anything with him, I wonder why I did it. I don’t think it is pitty, but he does have some problems making friends, I think it is more curiosity what he is going to say next. After a long agous escapade trying to get wireless internet on campus to get his room number, I got it, went to his messy room, and we went to eat lunch, went to the MU and ate and that was that. I really don’t want to bore or annoy you with what hawk said so I wont.

I then decided to see if I could locate anyone else that was in town this summer. I decided my search would best begin downtown. I knew that Mini, Jolly, and Ryan lived north of 13th street (so not technically down town) and a couple blocks west of Burnett, so I began a foot search for their summer house. Up and down the blocks I went ( like this “_|”|_|”|_) zigzagging through neighborhoods. I wound back up on 13th street looked down to my next block (Roosevelt St.) and decided enough was enough. I lager found out that they live on Roosevelt and if I hadn’t stopped my 30-45 min search wouldn’t have been in vain. Really I had nothing better to do anyways so …. *shrugs*.

I then decided, like most things in my life, that this search for someone to meet up with could be assisted by a computer. I returned to 5th street and walked to the library, to enter the Computer lab to check out AIM express. Turns out David (Jacobson) was online, he was on my short list of people I could pester so I then made my way to his house (with the assistance of him driving) to hang out for a bit. Eventually 5 PM rolled around and decided that it was about time for Annie and Anna to be home.

Really this weekend wasn’t too interesting, the remainder (thus far) was filled with Anna reading from a very strange dating guide, talking with Anna and Annie, watching 16 Candles, and really not too much else. Oh, I did almost fall off Anna’s couch while watching the movie. Asleep as usual of course. Stay tuned for the remainder of my weekend in Des Moines!