Lang Zal Ik Leven!

Sarah Gee on the Occasion of Her 26th Birthday

Currently Reading: The Impossible Will Take A Little While: a citizen's guide to hope in a time of fear (Paul Rogat Loeb, editor)

Currently Drinking: "a fine Irish Creame Liquor" (aka knock off Bailey's)

Current Songs on iPod repeat: The One Who Knows (Dar Williams); Summer in the City (Regina Spektor); It Rains Everywhere I Go (Lynn Morris); Times are Not What They Used to Be (Ginny Hawker); Subconscious (Ani DiFranco)

Celebration Plans: Roommate and I will drive to Des Moines, IA at 6am to attend the Historic Farmer's Market in downtown Des Moines. Neither of us has ever been to Iowa. After lunch at the farmer's market, we will drive to Omaha, NE. Neither of us has ever been to Nebraska. We will check into our Econo Lodge and have dinner at the local/regional hot spot vegan/vegetarian cafe. We will later attend "Cowardly Old World: An Electronic Music Concert." Through Audio and Video visit various visions of the future- from Nostradamus to Al Gore to Jules Verne to the Italian Neo-Futurists. Visual projections on on all three screens of the UNO Planetarium will complete this program... After, we will visit three local homo hot spots. On Sunday we have brunch at the Omaha botanical gardens and head back to Kansas City.

Fashion Plan:
Saturday Morning - undergarments, jeans, tank top undershirt, long sleeve t-shirt, socks shoes, red flag.
Saturday Evening - undergarments, jeans, tank top undershirt, hot jacket, socks shoes, red flag.
Sunday - undergarments (set 2... maybe...), jeans, tank top, recovery hoodie, socks shoes

Packing List: scrap booking materials, 4 specially crafted road trip CDs, polaroid camera, plastic toy voice distortion microphones, moroccas, tape recorder, medicine, 2 house dresses (for Oske, of course, I swear), uncle eddie's famous vegan oatmeal cookies, dvd player from living room entertainment center, Season 1 Disc 3 Saved By The Bell

Lang zal ze leven!

zal ze leven!

Lang zal ze leven in de gloria

in de glo-ri-a

in de glo-ri-a!

Long shall she live
Long shall she live
Long shall she live in glory in glo-ry in-glory!

(The Dutch Birthday Song)

So, long shall I live in glory!