MICHIGAN TECH-
My day started at 3:am on saturday morning. Shuttled it to the airport, met a Portuguese kid, a guy from Amsterdam and an American kid (who is now my friend on Facebook) on the ride there. 6:10 am flight and honestly, I didn't even know what airport I was checking my bags through. Had to change planes in St.Paul- wasn't aware of that till I looked at the boarding pass. In an effort to eat less airport food I did...I think I did. It was early- I usually get an egg McMuffin because I figure, hey, you're so rarely up this early, it's a special occasion. But being that for the next 3 months I'm traveling to like 65 states a week, the occasion is not so special and I have now developed this Pavlovian response to McDonalds where whenever I see it I think of early morning travel and I shoot someone. So no more McMuffins...A delight that I have taken to calling Egg McMewFinns because cats are funny and I'm alone most of the time so no one stops me. I didn't get any airport food! Rather I slept. Slept away the layover. Slept away the flight. Oh, btw I HATE FLIGHT ATTENDANTS. I am classifying them as a race of self hating, job loathing, power-wielding, glorified air WAITRESSES out to do nothing but assert there teeny bit of power over you for the next 3.5-5 hours. The other day I was on a small plane and the flight attendant told me that I had to have my shoes on for take off...Way to enforce the rules, woman. Isn't there a jerk somewhere with his tray table down? Isn't there some elderly woman in aisle 5 with her chair at a 92 degree angle you could be harassing? WHAT? YOU ALREADY BULLIED THEM INTO THE CONFINES OF ATA SAFETY meanwhile if I wanted to I could slit your throat with a sharpened credit card if I were a terrorist and it sure as fuck won't matter if my shoes aren't on when the plane is plunging to the earth at 2000 ft per second. BTW, would it kill you do at least act like I'm not inconveniencing you if and when I speak? I travel all over the country with this roller bag, WHY ON EARTH do you think today is the day it won't fit in the overhead compartment? NO I DON'T WANT CRANBERRY JUICE, IT'S A 45 MINUTE FLIGHT! I'M NOT THIRSTY ENOUGH TO WANT TO TALK TO YOU! GO SIT IN YOUR JUMP SEAT AND READ SKY MALL AND THINK OF WAYS TO SPRUCE UP THAT POLYCOTTON BLEND JUMPER YOU GOT ON...and no more make up isn't gonna help.
Sooo...HOUGHTON, MICHIGAN 47.11°N 88.57°W (Elev. 987 ft)
Home to copper mines, some Finnish people and Michigan Tech. I landed in a shoe box, was greeted by the woman who booked me and was taken straight to me room, I had about 2 hours between landing and the show. Just enough to time to scarf down a salad, text a boy that I like and lay on my stomach while I watched garbage on TV.
Michigan is a very interesting place. I've always thought of it as like...a southern state in the north- on account of all the minute men. It's got a lot of rolling planes and tree covered hills, like Canada...or most of America.
Houghton is the NYC of Northern North America, check out their bustling downtown in the above picture.
Students of MICHTECH (I'm calling it that now) are very bright and totally got jokes that most adults miss. We had about 500+ and it was standing room only. They seemed to really have a great time...too bad they didn't show it by buying T-Shirts...Then again, I don't have the best eye for design and perhaps I should make more aesthetically pleasing design choice before I spend a couple grand on shirts and decide to schlep them around the country (weird, spellcheck didn't spellcheck "schlep")
Go Huskies
(best joke of the night- If the MICHTECH Huskies married the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers...They would be CORNHUSKIES....BOOM
Glad you had a good time in our fair state, and you are kind calling Michigan "interesting," although the U.P. is the best part. Looking forward to your other show in the Great Lakes State later this year.
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