Late last night, Chief of Stuff and I were stumbling — more due to sleepiness than beer consumed — from the Terrace to our car after a delightful night out, when I looked up State Street toward the Capitol and saw a horrible sight: State Street was completely torn up.
“Oh no,” I said. “Look at that!” I pointed at the mounds of cement and fenced off areas that seemed to crawl up the Street for blocks.
And then, after a pause, I added, “I hope they finish before Ironman.”
CoS shook his head, laughing at me.
“What?”
More laughing.
“What!?!”
“No, ‘Oh no, that’s going to be really hard on those businesses,’ or ‘Too bad visitors here aren’t going to get to fully experience State Street.’ Nope. You’re so Ironman-centric…you’re worried about Ironman.”
More laughing.
“Well,” I said. “That’s right in the middle of the run course. That’s the most fun part to run up. Really, can you blame me?!”
I never did get an answer.
June 19, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Friggin’ awesome. I actually think this way about damn near everything. Amy’s convinced I have asthma (I’m sure I don’t), and I likely have some surgery coming up in the next year or two – I don’t even consider these things in a sensible sphere, I only think of how to schedule attention to them in such a way that doesn’t interfere with triathlon. How absurd is that?
By the way, it’s clear your subconscious is itching for IMWI ‘09…
June 19, 2008 at 5:59 pm
I can’t blame you. I think the same thing.
Did you know that they skipped doing this section last year? The City’s schedule slipped and construction would’ve interfered with Ironman and the start of the fall semester.
But you know what’s even worse? They took Brat’s patio away and are replacing it with a really dumb-looking fountain.
June 19, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Funny. THat’s what I do too – there are only 6 degrees of seperation from all things to triathlon.
June 19, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Wow…I hope it’s finished too. I guess no hope of it being fixed before WIBA though.
June 20, 2008 at 3:48 am
I’m witchya 100%! Last winter, I got laughed out of the car for snapping a picture of L. Monona when it was ice-covered (OMG, how would my IM cronies feel about this??) – heh, not that it’s much unfriendlier than the usual
June 20, 2008 at 6:36 am
You tell CoS it’s all about priorities.
As soon as I started reading that sentence, I thought the same thing – even before I got to the end of it.