I have a dream

[cosmolinguist]

I want to be back for the State Fair.

I want to be around before my mom goes back to work (school will start either just before or just after Labor Day, which is the last day of the fair).

I want to see some real summer, eat hamburgers and steak cooked on the grill, have lots of sweet corn, listen to Twins games on the radio ... heck, maybe if I'm really lucky I can get someone to take me to a real one! (I can dream, can't I?)

Sure, I don't know how we'll afford plane tickets by the end of August. But I don't know how we'll afford them by the end of September, either, and that's when my six "oh I'm just here on holiday" months are up. I may as well get what I want, right?

And I wanna be part of the Great Minnesota Get-Together! Get me together with some Minnesotans, please. Englishes also welcome.* C'mon, you'll love it; I promise.

And anyway, I figure if I'm going to take Andrew to a plce he doesn't want to be anyway, I may as well take him there at the peak of its glory--its cheesy, smelly, sunburned glory on a stick.

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* Note hollowfulofhat's perceptive remarks at the bottom of that thread: "My abiding memories are of many, many kinds of food on sticks and all the farm boys who are on their one annual trip to the big city. And the smell of the swine barn. It would certainly be a better way of getting to know the "real" America than a trip to midtown Manhattan or Disney World."

Comments

[ivana-duboise.livejournal.com]

If you were to make it back in time to go to the State Fair I would be more than glad to join you despite my finances. I don't think that I've been there for well over a decade … which would mean I was eleven at the time; that sounds about right.

[cosmolinguist]

Aw, that's cool. It'd be fun to go with you.

[setharoo.livejournal.com]

In a perfrect world, both you and stealthmunchkin would be able to come back to the great state of Minnesota before the Fair. Who knows? He might even fall in love with Minnesota in all its folksy glory and never want to leave. He wouldn't be the first Englishman it happened to. Mark Wheat (http://minnesota.publicradio.org/radio/services/thecurrent/staff.php) has been around for quite a while...

[cosmolinguist]

Indeed, I certainly hope to take him with me--my mom will go nuts if I come back without him, after promising her for so long, and anyway I'd just love to show him around and introduce him to, well, any of my friends that care to be introduced. :-)

And besides thinking that Mark Wheat had one of the best playlists on the station (when I still got to listen to it, at any rate), I was also perfectly happy to listen to his accent every evening, and it was great to hear occasionally about how Manchester United was doing, or about an Ian Dury concert he saw when he was at university, or a random mention of him listening to John Peel ...

I should ask him what he found so alluring in Minnesota, so I can make another English boy want to stay. :-)

[angel-thane.livejournal.com]

I had a dream that you had a multi day stopover in Toronto on your way back.

[cosmolinguist]

I don't know if I'll get my dream or not, but I think it'd be nice if you got yours. :-)(As long as you don't mind that I'm bringing Andrew with!)

[angel-thane.livejournal.com]

hmmm, I'm not sure if my futon is big enough for three. =P

[mllesarah.livejournal.com]

I'll be working at the 4-H building again! Last year I made, after taxes, almost eight hundred dollars in a month, so I think it is worth it. In other news, you should totally come! You know how much the State Fair rocks, and you should show it to Andrew. Plus, then he could meet me and I could meet him and whatnot. Also, I heard the Beach Boys are playing at Mystic Lake this summer, but I don't remember when. There are lots of reasons to tempt Andrew over here!

[cosmolinguist]

I remember you saying you were going to work at the fair again, and that is another reason to drag Andrew there; I do want him to see my friends, and you're so fun when you're getting excited about all that 4-H stuff.

I told him about the Beach Boys playing at Mystic Lake and he just said, "Yeah, I know." Figures. Good job with trying to tempt him, though; that's exactly the sort of temptatiion he needs!

[mllesarah.livejournal.com]

I do my best! Hey, I have yet to buy a phone card, so I haven't called you back. You can call me, or sometime in the near future I'll pick up a phone card. I still want to talk to you!

[elrestodemivida.livejournal.com]

Oh, you added me! How come? (Not that i mind at all, heh, i just wondered why.)

[cosmolinguist]

Probably 'cause you have half a dozen of the same friends as me and they're all really cool.