bright lights big city

today i rode with stephanie down to denver. she's got a baby shower to attend, and i've got cabin fever. usually i don't mind sticking around laramie most weekends, but lately i've needed an escape. the trip over christmas break to phoenix was great, but even there we mostly ended up sticking around my grandparents' house rather than getting out into the World.

it's not like this trip is all that much excitement and buzz; right now i'm typing this at the corner bakery on the 16th st. mall and eating a sorta typical salad and drinking a cherry coke. not exactly cultural awakening, i admit. but still, there are big buildings and it's 60+ degrees out there and i went for a short walk along speer and colfax and i picked up a free copy of The Onion from a street stand and somehow all of this is fulfilling my need for something fresh and different. tonight maybe we'll end up at a show, or at a martini bar, or who knows. somehow the sense of possibility and spontaneity feel good.

in other news, it's nice to have nice friends. thanks, craig and shannon, for pitying my sad remodeling woes and getting me a subscription to the family handyman. i've learned some useful things already!

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