{"id":532,"date":"2012-05-23T09:51:30","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T16:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kimwetter.com\/?p=532"},"modified":"2012-05-23T09:51:30","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T16:51:30","slug":"a-goodbye-so-nice-i-named-it-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kimwetter.com\/?p=532","title":{"rendered":"A Goodbye so Nice, I Named it Twice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_535\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/kimwetter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/wheatfields.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-535\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-535 \" title=\"wheatfields\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/kimwetter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/wheatfields-300x224.jpg?resize=300%2C224\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/kimwetter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/wheatfields.jpg?resize=300%2C224&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/kimwetter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/wheatfields.jpg?resize=768%2C574&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/kimwetter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/wheatfields.jpg?w=959&amp;ssl=1 959w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-535\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wheat fields, Bitches<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This past weekend, I went to Walla Walla. Something new and different for me, right? Whatever, <a title=\"Haters Gonna Hate\" href=\"http:\/\/kimwetter.com\/2012\/05\/08\/haters-gonna-hate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">haters gonna hate<\/a>, and besides, <a title=\"Walla Walla Weekend\" href=\"http:\/\/kimwetter.com\/2011\/12\/05\/walla-walla-weekend\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I love that city<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of my best friends has lived there for the past several years since graduation and she&#8217;s moving to Portland. Obviously, we had to have one last hurrah in the town we&#8217;ve both grown to love.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, it was graduation weekend on campus and I was hoping to avoid a few people. Whitman is extremely small so we all decided that we would stay away from campus whenever we could. If anyone was concerned about my trip, I&#8217;d simply respond, &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry, I am staying off campus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>90% of the time I did. We did all the Walla Walla classics (in my book but really these are all things I discovered in college, in WW. Less specific to the city and more specific to my experiences there):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Grabbing taco truck and taking it out to the wheat fields<\/strong>. This was much more enchanting as a freshmen in college. Being 26, the steep hill, broken glass and shotgun shells in the area were a bit disconcerting.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Power hour<\/strong>. Although not limited to the city, Walla Walla is where I first discovered the beauty of a power hour. Friday, we did Boy Band power hour. It was glorious.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Beirut<\/strong>. Again, not limited to Walla Walla but my love originated there. Whitman also taught me that it was called Beirut, not beer pong.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Twilight drinking game<\/strong>. This one time, I switched jobs and gave myself a week off in between. During that week, I went to visit my friend in Walla Walla and we discovered the wonders of the <a title=\"New Moon Live Thoughts\" href=\"http:\/\/kimwetter.com\/2012\/05\/04\/new-moon-live-thoughts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twilight<\/a> drinking game on a quiet night.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Urban Golf<\/strong>. I&#8217;ve tried to <a title=\"Snow Days 2012\" href=\"http:\/\/kimwetter.com\/2012\/02\/10\/snow-days-2012\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">urban golf in Seattle<\/a> and it&#8217;s just not the same. The course at Whitman (yes, I was on campus for this) is familiar and awesome. How many other times would I be stopped with an open bottle of champagne and given time to finish it before I throw it out?<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Cutting Edge<\/strong>. We watched this during our bbq on Saturday night. It was one of the first movies my friend and I watched together while Freshmen. It was the start of a beautiful friendship.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Karaoke<\/strong>. I can&#8217;t sing. Therefore, I go to the place in town that takes their singing most seriously: <a title=\"This Gem\" href=\"http:\/\/kimwetter.com\/2012\/01\/16\/this-gem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Golden Horse<\/a>. Someone put in Creed&#8217;s, &#8220;My sacrifice&#8221; for me to sing because we all figured my low, raspy, monotone voice might do better with male songs. Unfortunately, I didn&#8217;t sing it but I will remember the idea for the next time I karaoke.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So it&#8217;s 2am on Saturday and I&#8217;m not ready to go to bed. I get a text from <a title=\"A Letter to Rick Perry from my Friend Todd\" href=\"http:\/\/kimwetter.com\/2011\/12\/08\/a-letter-to-rick-perry-from-my-friend-todd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">my friend Todd<\/a> and decide to go meet him.<\/p>\n<p>Campus was dead. It was the night before graduation and there were only a handful of people awake. So, three of us did what any person would and grabbed leftover beer from one house and went to go play Beirut in Todd&#8217;s frat&#8217;s basement. I commandeered the speakers and we played a game with water cups. Then watched as the sun started to come up from the porch of my old college house.<\/p>\n<p>When I returned to Seattle, one of the first things that was said to me was, &#8220;I heard you were in a frat basement playing beirut. I thought you were going to stay off campus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The exchanged bothered me a lot. It took me a while to figure out why. It seems there was an implication that there was no way I could keep myself away from campus, away from frat basements and away from meeting randos.<\/p>\n<p>After I tried being defensive and explaining that it was 3am, no one but my friends were around, and it was totally along the lines of the weekend I had sought out, I stopped. Why am I defending myself? I love frat basements! That first step inside where you are momentarily overcome with nausea but then you get used to the stale beer smell is so familiar to me.<\/p>\n<p>So of course I ended up in a frat basement. It&#8217;s what I do. Or what I used to do. The weekend was set up as a goodbye to the city. I doubt I will be spending nearly as much time there now that people are moving away. And what a fabulously wonderful goodbye it was&#8230;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend, I went to Walla Walla. Something new and different for me, right? Whatever, haters gonna hate, and besides, I love that city. One of my best friends has lived there for the past several years since graduation and she&#8217;s moving to Portland. 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