dual personalities

Well, I was going to write about how tired I am of hearing a certain actress who married a prince talk about being a victim, but I didn’t want my mom’s blog to get kicked off the internet. And then I watched this week’s Dancing with the Stars and watched Christie Brinkley’s daughter literally weep when she got eliminated. This followed Lauren Alaina’s contemporary tribute dance dedicated to her stepfather on the one year anniversary of his death. And the dichotomy of these two moments, both of which featured women weeping on live national television, really struck me. Anyway, the plan to prevent a not great dancer from progressing further than relatively good dancers has failed because America has kept Sean Spicer out of the bottom two each week (insert crying laughing emoji).

On another note, I ventured to Cape Girardeau last week for work–and I was really impressed. I realize I was there on a pretty fall day, but the downtown was cute and clean. Cape is about two hours south of St. Louis–but, amazingly, it’s still another hour to get to the tip of the bootheel! It’s a cool little river town–I thought the Mississippi didn’t seem quite so wide there.

The downtown area is in the distance near the bridge. 

They have some rich men who are investing in the downtown in a way that is designed to encourage young people who go off to college to return and to get those who go to SEMO to stay. We visited an incubator for start ups–they’ve helped over 40 start ups and created 150 jobs. And there is a very cool rooftop bar/restaurant that I thought had more ambiance than anything in Mid-MO.

I’d work here. 

I’m a sucker for old towns with a few blocks of old buildings. And luckily my job is letting me visit some of them! On Monday, I ventured to Webster County (near Springfield) and, while there was not much in Marshfield, I will note that when I said to my co-worker, I assume Webster County is named for Daniel Webster, I was met with a blank stare [insert eyeroll emoji].

And I just checked and it is.