Today was reasonably uneventful (with one exception which i’lol get to later) so it might be time to just blog about Iowa. It’s always interesting to me when stereotypes turn out to be accurate and I have to say that Iowa is exactly what i imagined it would be. First the 900 pound elephant in the room; everyone is white. Everyone. Ans that dies make for an interesting 1950s dynamic where there is no ethnic tension because there is no ethnic. there also definitely is something to this idea of Iowa Nice and i found myself wondering, and i know this is cynical, if the two were related; that not having ethnic differences around makes it easier for people to be nicer. Never have i had more teenagers in a grocery store ask me if they could help me find anything. Today i was in a grocery store and when i came out there was a motorcycle in front just idling; the owner had gone inside. That would not work in Oakland, let’s say. It’s also just full of corn and fields. And its pleasant; it’s not poor, it actually seems pretty affluent. The public library stayed open until 8 and was well staffed with little old white ladies and very nice computers. But the internet didn’t work and they didn’t know why; they seemed confused on the whole nature of the internet.
So yeah, it’s nice here. Almost too nice. Pleasant.
On another note, because i always tell it like it is for posterity, i have to say that I’m really ready to go home. This morning one of the older women on my ‘team” completely lost her shit directly at me and started yelling at me this morning and I just really wanted in that moment to go home. I felt bad for her that she was so angry and sad but I did not want to deal with her insanity on my vacation. I need some vacations that are really vacations, with desert islands and beaches and no crazy old ladies yelling at me, and i can shave whenever i want to.
