I’m never really sure when summertime officially starts…something to do with the solstices or equinoxes or the Age of Aquarius…whatever…astronomy was never my strong suit and I don’t really care about the hippy/pagan “holidays” that follow it. For me summer officially begins with one of nature’s most amazing migrations, The Departure of the Students from Chico. Months of drinking a lot and occasionally paying a visit to class hard work is topped off with a frenzied week of parties and packing the bars so I have to wait twenty damn minutes for a drink. Well it’s done…they’re gone…finally. Could you imagine Chico summers with all those students? My gods…it would be awful. Not only would it be hotter than the armpit of Hades, but Every. Single. One. of your favorite summer hangouts would be packed. It would be a fucking pressure cooker.
Now I don’t normally read the CN&R but I decided to pick up the May 28th issue. It had a picture of a quintuple scoop ice-cream cone on the cover and I loves me some iced cream. Turns out there wasn’t any ice-cream contained in the pages of the paper…still looking into suing those cream-teases for false advertising…but apparently they’re running this contest with 20 challenges to complete over the summer. They range in difficulty from riding around on the bus to slaying the famed Upper Park Sasquatch taking a trip to Ashland. Whoever completes the most challenges wins a bike from Campus Bicycles doesn’t win a damn thing…so don’t even try because there is most certainly nothing to win and it is definitely not a kickass bike.
I’ve always wanted to complete an arbitrary list of things to do provided by a free local weekly. So this summer I am committed to kicking this lists ass. Stay tuned to this blog as I document my attempt. You’ll see me sing in public, try two new tacos a week, visit Feather Falls, beat Larry Wahl in a staring contest dunk a basketball…etc.
So let’s get out there and enjoy this brief reprieve from the college crowd…by watching me enjoy my summer over your internet connection.
