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| Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
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10:25 pm - Artmostfear
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This evening I met a woman from South Africa. She was very wise when it came to love and had been traveling around the United States for five months. She said that so far she liked San Francisco the best, but was quite excited about New Orleans. She is sleeping in the top bunk and I am down below. I wonder what the community book shelf has to offer. Meredith told me about a supplement that I should take. Ribs keep getting broken on the set of Secretariat. I am probably next. What a strange evening.
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7:31 pm - And then there was South Africa.
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It is so hard to feel like things are just barely out of reach and completely out of my control. It is hard to feel in one moment that I wouldn't want things to be any different than they are and then a moment later to feel like things should be different entirely. How is it possible to feel so thankful, yet so dissatisfied? Content and regret? Confident, but terrified out of my mind? Things have never been more clearly confusing.
Lately I have been laughing through tears. But that's Truvy Jones's favorite emotion.
I can't stop watching this fly reeling around and dying on the floor of my room at the Blue Moon.
Blue Moon, I saw you standing alone!
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| Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
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1:28 am - Jimmy Fallon in love with someone.
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Sometimes I go back and read my old entries and find that past-me from all time periods really entertains present-me. Lately I have been thinking about how I completely stopped writing in here. I think about the fact that in a couple years when I want to look back and be entertained by this version of the past-me that there will be no evidence that this me ever existed. That is scary and disappointing. I am going to make a conscious effort to write in here. It used to feel so natural and exciting to write in Live Journal, but lately it has just felt like a big hassle. What happened to me these last three-ish years?
I am working on a feature film in Lexington, KY. I work 12-plus hour days and I am focusing all of my energy on finding a general admission ticket for Bruce Springsteen at the Palace of Auburn Hills on Nov. 13 that costs less than $300.
I am nervous but hopeful about the future. I am hungry because I forgot to eat every single one of my meals today and I am awake because I drank too much coffee throughout the day and I am feeling homesick.
Right now Jimmy Fallon is holding up an old Sunny Day Real Estate album. Diary. This could only mean great things.
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| Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
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10:27 pm - Back to Africa.
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I'm going to try to post more as part of my mid-year resolution. Along with that, I'm doing very good stretches every morning, walking to work, and only eating eggs/cheese a maximum of two times a month! Today I saw a house that burned down and I wanted to take a photo of it, but by the time I came back later it was knocked down and cleared out.
I am on the search for the bestever dancenight danceplace in Athens, GA. Funny to keep looking maybe, as I will be long gone in a couple of months, but here's to trying out "punk rock dance night" at the shuffle club this evening round midnight. If it proves to go well, I may just have to switch my schedule so that I work in the evening on Wednesdays, as my normal work day walk must commence just a bit after 7:15am to get me there by 8:00! We'll see. Fighting off a bit of a sick feeling, but still excited to see if Athens can bring it. I've had too many false dancing alarms since moving and I'm growing restless. How can the most fun dancing be just myself in my living room, shaking the walls and picking the songs? I see good dancers around, but nothing to round them all up for the ultimate!
Last night was spent with Carl and I hanging out with family members and friends of Wilco, as well as brushing Stella Artoiseseses with Tweedy himself. Is it wrong that the most impressive thing to me relating to Tweed and the Wilcos - the thing that I kept thinking most about while watching them perform - is that he got to meet Stephen Colbert? And we didn't even get to hang out with Nate Murphy. But a $30 Classic Center ticket at a five-finger discount was something I won't soon forget. 420, dude.
I'll be starting a cookin food Livejournal for my separate not-so-secret food life, but more to come on that front.
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| Sunday, April 12th, 2009
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9:30 pm - Writer's Block: Sweet Tooth
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| Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
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8:02 pm - Is it just me or...
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| Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
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5:35 pm - Fight the power.
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| Thursday, November 13th, 2008
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11:30 pm - Well I certainly meant to post before now.
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I meant to come on here and make my obligatory "proud to be an American" post-Obama victory entry, but the time got away! Michelle O. got a lot of flack from the media when expressing a gesture such as this, however innocent it may have been, but let's just say that when I was in downtown Athens watching the victory speech and seeing people cry and hugging loved ones and strangers and feeling hopeful...well, I really have never felt more proud about living in the U.S. I have never seen anything like what was happening that night and so much happy crying! At work I checked my e-mail right around the time Obama had pretty much won and Yahoo had this banner up with a picture of Barack Obama and it said "Barack Obama: First Black President of the United States" and I started crying, I couldn't control it. I also can't believe how happy I was to vote...it really felt like something that I would talk about when I am elderly and talking to grandkids about our first black president. Any other time in my life that I've actually felt like a part of history it was because of something like 9/11...something bad. But this was so, so good!
I am so glad that the United States is finally socialist, at long last.
Just kidding.
On Nov. 4th I made Barack Obama's potluck chili. The recipe was in an interview that he did for some northwestern newspaper a while ago and I found the article online. Of course I slightly adjusted the recipe to use ground tofu stuff instead of ground meats, but everything else I kept authentic.
( I pretty much take the credit for those nearly 300 electoral votes, I gotta say. )
Halloween was fun. ( I made vegan mummy cupcakes. )
On Devils Night I made stuffed peppers for dinner and we carved them like pumpkins. Carl's is really scary like Lord Voldemort.
( Click here for peppers. )
Carl and I hung out with Stephen and Sabrina all night. We saw a haunted house and ran and danced around Athens. I was Violet Beauregarde, Carl was MacGyver, Stephen and Sabrina were devils-in-love.
I am meeting Brooke and Kimball in THE CITY for new years eve. Here's my dress:
TGIF (almost)! Dinner with buddies! The house smells like carrot cake mmmmmmmm.
current mood:  good
current music: Bruce Springsteen
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| Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
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1:33 am
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| Monday, October 27th, 2008
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7:06 pm
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| Sunday, October 19th, 2008
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4:28 pm - The piece that fits.
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( Last week I was in Seattle. )
One more major city to scratch off the old list.
I did fun things like go to the Space Needle and ride the monorail, hang out at the aquarium and Pike's Place Market and the Seattle Art Museum. There was a Whole Foods a block away from my hotel, but I had no kitchen to really take advantage, only a microwave. There was a burrito involved.
Have you guys been to Seattle? It's pretty nice. The mountains are beautiful. I live around mountains, but these mountains are so different. The mountains down here are rolling and covered with trees and colors. These are blue and white mountains that come up past the clouds! They look computer-generated. While flying into Seattle we flew right past Mount Rainier and I could see it's frosty tip right alongside my tiny airplane window before I could see land anywhere else! It felt really startling. Majestic! The city itself was pretty easy for me to navigate. I took a three-mile walk one way to the Beacon Hill area to watch Good Luck and Paul Baribeau play. I ate Ethiopian food. I watched cable TV. I bundled up and walked all over and talked to people and hung out by the Puget Sound. For one night I stayed in the International District at a 100-plus year old hotel where I was moved to a way nicer room because the owner recognized my last name as Greek. She also gave me a kimono for the night. I petted on a Siamese cat, I talked to a boy from Addis Ababa. I took a taxi cab towards the airport, ate French toast. Came home.
Now, foodstuff. But I don't feel like a full recipe disclosure right now, so I'll just keep it on a need-tah-know basis.
( 'SNOBBY JOES' WITH A SIDE OF DILLY HOME FRIES. )
( BARLEY AND RICE TOSSED WITH GINGERY EDAMAME AND ADZUKI BEANS ALONGSIDE GINGER-GARLIC-SESAME KALE. )
( BAKED POTATO AND GREENS SOUP WITH POTATO-WEDGE CROUTONS. )
I hope y'all had a good weekend.
current mood:  peepee
current music: Primitive Radio Gods
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| Sunday, October 5th, 2008
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9:35 pm - Bruce Springsteen's Radio Nowhere sounds like 867-5309
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Hey kiddos. S'been a while!
I have been lucky enough to do a lot of sweet stuff since the last time I contributed to my Live Journal. It turns out that my life just keeps on happening even when I can't bring myself to actually sit down and describe it. Since that beautiful rainbow that warm spring day in Athens...
I stayed at a ( hotel in Indianapolis )that was train-themed. There were old timey paper mache people everywhere. Indianapolis sort of sucks. We were hungry and were forced to eat at a Qdoba.
We stayed in Indianapolis because we were on our way to Michigan. While in Michigan, I took the time to ( party it up with my Midwest homies. )
As well, I went to my hometown of Grand Haven, where I ate pizza with my entire family, ( walked on the pier ) ( and saw a really nasty dead and bloated rat with a hook in it. )
Of course I went to the beach. ( I went to a beach I had never been to...Saugatuck. )
Before heading out of state, I had the privilege to attend ( the wedding reception of Rachel and Aaron. )
We drove straight back from South Lyon, MI, to Athens, GA, the day after the wedding, minus one phone and with a brand-new tear in my green silk dress from so much dancing.
( It felt really good to finally reach the North Carolina/Georgia border. )
Since being back in Athens, I took this ( kickass photo of Josiekat )
( and dressed like a boy during Athens Popfest. )
( I was also able to finally go to Savannah and Tybee Island for Carl's birthday weekend. )
Also, I will be going to Seattle for five days in two days. I guess I've been pretty lucky, and yet I still have a lot of things I need to figure out. My life has felt pretty sad lately and I am trying to climb out of this hole. I miss a lot of people. More and more I feel like my life is just made up of five-year blocks of time where everything is basically the same for that five years, but the blocks are virtually indistinguishable from each other. I stay basically the same but I change everyone and everything around me. It's making me really tuckered out. It's also making me feel really lonely.
Talking about my life is getting harder and harder for me. So, basically I think I am going to talk about things that I've cooked in this journal, with little sprinkling of my life here and there. Cooking fills me with a lot of happiness and so talking about cooking also brings me pleasure. Maybe y'all would like to try out some of my favorite recipes and let me know how you liked them.
With that, here's what I've been tossing together in the kitchen this weekend -
( EDAMAME VEGGIE BURGERS )
( SMOKEY COLLARD GREENS WITH BROWN RICE AND PLANTAIN GINGERBREAD )
( STUFFED BAKED APPLES ALA MODE )
current mood:  nervous
current music: Andrew Jackson Jihad
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| Monday, June 30th, 2008
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12:00 am - Fantasy! Reality!
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This evening was GREAT.
I was listening to The Neverending Story by Limahl and all of a sudden there is this beautiful rainbow in the sky! It was the most wonderful rainbow I have ever seen in all my life. It was huge and all of the colors were so bright and contrasted from each other. And it was a full arch shape, instead of just being some streak in the sky.
Most magical thing ever!!!
( See? )
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| Monday, June 23rd, 2008
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7:24 pm - I lost someone.
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Now, I know that this is immature and irrational, but does anyone else get really angry when there is something that you love so much (a music, a style, a movie, etc.) and it is odd. And the great thing about this thing is that you're not even trying to be quirky or weird, you just love it/him/them/that thing so much and so deeply and it has all of this significance throughout your life and brings you such deep happiness. Maybe this thing even sort of defines part of who you are (for better or for worse) for people who don't know you very well. But then all of a sudden maybe it becomes this huge trend and everyone is wearing/listening/saying it and you still love it, but everything just feels different. Or perhaps someone you don't care for just goes on and on about how much they love this thing when you know for a fact (you know KNOW, ok?) that this person couldn't possible love it as much as you do because they never really seemed that interested in it until recently or something. Yeah, this is vague. And I guess I don't really have an example of this. But just a completely demented anger saddled with recognizably unreasonable selfishness and possible pathology? Has anyone experienced this?
One thing that no one not ever can take away from me is how terrible my Passport photo looks. I have to deal with this Passport for the next 10 years. I'LL BE ALMOST 35!! I know people always say that their driver's license, Passport, school i.d., blah photos are bad. You have to trust me on this one. I look;
a. fat.
b. drunk.
c. crying.
d. shiny. not in a blingy way.
e. fat.
f. red-faced.
g. like someone punched me in the face.
Midwest in about a week and three days or something. I worked over 100 hours over this past two weeks for this trip. Maybe you did, too. But try to sit in an office that smells like microwaved hamburgers wearing giant headphones that shoot financial advisor jargon into your brain non-stop. So, please try to hang out with me. I'd love it. I am sorry if I haven't written you a letter, sent you a CD, or if I've offended you in any other way. I'm a dick. I didn't mean to. I love you guys. Things will get better, I promise. I have been feeling a lot of chaos...work, weird non-traditional schooling, a house that won't stay clean, tooth decay, insomnia, a car that won't stay fixed, prospects of going out west looming nearer and nearer and my financial stability looking bleaker and bleaker, as well as the preparation for moving to new orleans when the new year hits. Together let's make this trip of mine better than xmas. It couldn't really get much worse.
Does everyone have their 4th of July costumes ready?
Oh yeah, and someone should seriously move to NOLA with Carl and I. I will single-handedly make your life more fun than you could ever even imagine. And I understand the loftiness of that suggestion and I'm up for the challenge.
Doin' it.
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| Saturday, June 14th, 2008
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10:03 pm
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| Monday, April 21st, 2008
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8:25 pm - That baby is Japanese.
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So, I have this really big list of places I want to go and things I want to see while I am here on this Earth. A lot of them are pretty cliche, like the pyramids and all that. Some are just weird, like Dollywood.
What do you guys think? What are the most beautiful places that you've ever been and what places do you want to see? I am going to steal all of yours, so please respond. Also, I want to know a little bit more about y'all. Everyone needs to have places that they want to go, right? Maybe I'll post my list later.
Okay....go!
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| Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
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8:06 pm - A cold day today!
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Man, sometimes I don't know how I feel about Athens. Sometimes I really like it, not that I have friends or anything. There is just something safe and warm about it that I can't really explain. Like Grand Haven only more drunken kids - college and otherwise, less water, and it's bigger.
Sometimes I just sort of want to stay here and cook a lot and read and work my boring yet lucrative job.
But mostly I'm excited to see what other trouble I can get into in other places!
Nichole was here this past weekend! There was dancing. Lots of it. We ate good food, went for 1,000 walks, and saw a lot of kitties. But Nichole is allergic to kitties, and pollen, two things which really were everywhere.
At least one trip a month, that's the plan, Stanley. April will be Greenville and then Atlanta Aquarium (biggest in the U.S., did you know?). May, St. Augustine, methinks. June is another hot air balloon ascension in Helen, GA, and a cabin that is barrel-shaped, followed shortly thereafter by Michigan times and Sleeping Bear Dunes for sure. July and August? Still working on that one. Any suggestions? There will definitely be some Savannah/Tybee Island in August. And then epic September train road trip extravaganza to Wild West.
That's all I got.
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| Sunday, March 30th, 2008
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10:25 pm - and cuz everyone likes doubled up and massive photo posts...
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NOT! But have I told you guys about all of the nice shows I have seen recently/month of March.
It started with Jonathan Richman on the 1st. He sang a really cute song about cell phones and why he would never have one. Anyway, I was right up front and there was hardly anyone there sort of.
( Jonathan, Jonathan... )
So, we'd been looking forward to the Quintron/Miss Pussycat show for two months or so, but when we went online to order the tickets a week or so ahead of time, it turned out that it had been sold out for over a month. Crazy. So, we were totally bummed out, but then strings got pulled (as they say in show business. just kidding.) and we got to go. Yay! It was nice seeing those dudes and catching up with them. Dancing!
( Swampy music. )
After Q and P played, Miss Pussycat put on her puppet show for everyone. Let's play a game...
( I'll post the puppet show pictures in order and you all try and guess what it was about... )
And last night I saw Kimya Dawson. The last time I saw her was three years ago or something at the DAAC in GR. Well, this was a lot better, but also really, really strange. With all of that Juno stuff going on, it was packed up in there. They managed to allow the 40 Watt to have an all ages early show, which was great. There were kids there and grown-ups and teenagers and everyone else. So fun.
There was a terribly long line when we arrived, and it sort of forked off into two lines. I had already bought my tickets online, so I asked the girl in front of me in line if this was a line to buy tickets or for people who already had tickets. She said she *assumed* it was to buy tickets, BUT SHE ALREADY HAD HER TICKETS, but I was still going to have to wait in line anyway. She was all sassy about it and gave a stink face and it rubbed me the wrong way. I just hate it when you ask someone a perfectly innocent question and they act put out by it or something, or like I was acting like I was too good to wait in line, when actually I just wanted to make sure I was doing the right thing, Spike Lee.
Well, anyway.
Paul Baribeau was there. I talked to him for a while. Nice hugs and such. It was nice, even though I can't remember feeling more nervous. I got my paws on a copy of his new 10". It's very pretty.
All in all, a good/weird night. I couldn't stay for the later Elf Power show because I was hungry after basically only having a lot of carnival-style food all day, along with some grits with butter, and I could feel my blood sugar getting out of whack, so I left to give my body some much-needed nutrients.
The 40 Watt always gives me trouble about taking pictures unless I am really, really close. They just don't turn out right. Haunted. But, here's a couple.
( She gets paid for being Kimya Dawson. )
Well, in the words of Alvin of the Chipmunks when speaking to the Chipettes in Rome before their rock-n-roll battle all over the ancient ruins in The Chipmunk Adventure...
"How much you wanna bet that we can out rock-n-roll you?"
Until next time...
I love you.
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7:00 pm - MAKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKEEEEEENNNN
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Carl and I went to the Cherry Blossom Festival in Macon, Georgia. We hung out Little Richard style all over that town. Most of these photos were taken of hot air balloons and of Rose Hill Cemetery, one of the nicest cemeteries that I have ever been to. Duane Allman is buried there. If you don't like hot air balloons or cemeteries, you probably won't like these, but those are the two main reasons we went to Macon for Cherry Blossom Fest, soo....
The photos that are smaller and weird quality were taken with my camera phone because my real camera started dying pretty early on and I forgot the charger, so we kept trying to rub the battery on our clothes and hair to work up some static electricity so that hopefully it would work the whole time we were there. It finally died for good at the Ocmulgee Mounds right before we headed back to Athens. Speaking of camera phones, it's really annoying that a lot of people use their camera phone as their only camera. It makes me really mad because cell phones are actually pretty dumb, and it just looks stupid taking pictures with your phone sometimes instead of a real camera, so I was pretty irritated that I had to resort to that sort of thing, but you do whatcha gotta.
The very first place we went when we got into town on Friday was to Macon's only vegetarian restaurant, ( Edenz Vegetarian. )
We ate at the buffet, and so we got to sit upstairs in an orange room with pretty chairs and big windows. They had a lot of freshly squeezed juice blends for all kinds of ailments, like impotency. The food was pretty good, although the collards were a little bland. There was a really strange but good dessert with baked peaches and apples all mixed together. mmmm. There was only one other person up at the buffet with us. He was nice, but he kept asking us questions about our jobs and what we do. When he left he gave us his business card, and it turned out that he works at ING as a financial adviser and what he was actually doing the whole time was seeing if we were good prospects or something. Yuck! It was like being at work when we were supposed to be on weekend vacation.
Next, we headed over to Rose Hill Cemetery. ( I took lots of pictures there because it was real purdy. )
( Macon had a few pretty nice signs. )
We went to an ( arts and sciences museum. )
As with any proper town festival, there was a ( carnival. )
The conclusion of day one involved a really nice lantern light tour of the Ocmulgee National Monument, which is a really great national park right on the edge of Macon. It is pretty much just a bunch of beautiful mounds made by ancient peoples from as far back as 12,000 years ago. Folks are allowed to climb on the mounds at the designated areas, all except the funeral mound because there are still people buried in there and it would just be mean and weird to walk on top of them. Our tour guide was really nice and I got to carry a ( lantern! )
On the beginning of our second day, we got up at 6:15am and went to an airport for a ( hot air balloon mass ascension. )
We went to the ( Georgia Music Hall of Fame. )
It was pretty nice. They had a big Otis Redding exhibit and I bought a neon green Otis Redding pin. There was supposedly an area about Blind Willie McTell, but I sure dint see it. No TLC either, yo.
After the Hall of Fame, we just had to head over to Gateway Park and get our photos taken with ( bronze Otis. )
Our last Macon experience was going back to the Ocmulgee mounds during ( daylight. )
It's really beautiful there.
( BYE MACON! See you next year? )
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