in portland

i am across the country and i'm sleepy. i have not been sleeping more than 5 hours per night this week. my body just can not handle the time change.

but i am having some fun in portland. seriously, this town is ridiculous. the people tend to be too friendly and maybe too hip? the sidewalks are like hipster catwalks. okay, maybe it's not that hip. but only because you throw a homeless hippie in here and there. and maybe a weird gangly hippie who wants to do some faith healing on you. whatever.

so this trip has been lame as far as the work goes. i am here for maybe 6 total hours of work. over 4 days. lots and lots of free time. so luckily i have a friend in town. last night carter and i went to a couple of bars. i was too old and not hip enough to be in the last bar, but that is fine. at least i smelled ok--that is more than i can say for many people in that bar.

our last stop was a donut shop called voodoo donut. sooo good. i had a "memphis mafia" donut that is a banana fritter with bananas, peanut butter, chocolate chips. yumm. (my stomach hurts the next morning though) so while we were in there, carter asked about an eating contest and the girl was like "if you eat this in 1 minute and 20 seconds, it's free." it was the biggest donut i have ever seen. and he did it. and it was free. but it was very disturbing to watch. competitive eating is so weird. the whole tiome, i was like, "you are gonna lose and that donut is gonna cost you $25. you better chew faster." i am sure that my words of confidence helped him to pull through a eat the DONUT (all caps because the thing was huuuge).

good times. today i am leaving portland for corvallis, oregon. good times.