I survived the walk from the Comfort Inn to the Walla Walla Vineyard Inn thanks to Chuck's brace and two painkillers. Adam the manager was there to check me in, as was Suzanne.* I'm thinking about getting some lunch right now, but am also tempted to stay and rest my knee.
Which impulse will win out? Stay tuned!
*Last night as I was making my reservation, Suzanne rather suddenly asked me whether I was left-handed. I said I was. She then told me that all the Kevins she has met have been left-handed. The only right-handed Kevin she knows wasn't named Kevin at birth.
So now I'm curious: is Kevin Bacon left-handed? What about Kevin Kline? Kevin Costner? Kevin Dillon? Kevin Spacey?
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Mechelle says you can stay there starting tomorrow (Thursday) and wants you to please call her at your earliest convenience.
If you have access to regular internet, her CS profile is here:
http://www.couchsurfing.com/profile.html?id=4AX0RH5
Her phone number is 509 529 4788.
If you can't check out her CS profile here is a short synopsis:
She is a verified member (which means she verified her address with CS Admins). She is 38, an LPN and gardener and has both a spare bedroom and a couch. It looks like she probably lives alone as she doesn't mention there is anyone living there except her dog, cat and fish. She has good references and has traveled out of the country before.
Enjoy!
A quick search of the intarweb turns up nothing on any of the Kevins you mention being left-handed (none of their Wikipedia pages say anything about it). The only famous left-handed Kevin I could find was Kevin Maas, a baseball player who played briefly for the Yankees in the 90s.
This would seem to indicate that Suzanne's experience is a coincidence (albeit a rather weird coincidence).
Dang, that was fast! I am, however, signed in to my new motel room after having sworn a blood oath not to renege on a pledge to spend a minimum of a week there (to renege would be to forfeit the cheap rate I was given; it would have been over $70 otherwise). The location is absolutely ideal, being right downtown and walking distance from Whitman College, various restaurants, and all other things downtownish.
I'll contact Mechelle and ask if it'd be OK to move over to her place on the 10th, which is when I'm slated to leave the motel. I'll also ask her how long she'd be willing to have me over. Based on her CS profile, she sounds like a very good person to talk religion with. That other couple, the "devout atheists," also sound like a hoot, though I always find it ironic when atheists act in just as dogmatic and closed-minded a manner as religious fundamentalists. This isn't a statement about the couple in question, obviously: I haven't had a chance to sound them out, but I was intrigued by the wife's comment about her husband's insecurity/defensiveness around believers. Quite a few atheists evince the same militancy and narrow-mindedness as their fundie counterparts. Not that they'd have much problem with me; many traditional theists think I'm an atheist.
Anyway-- thanks, Amanda!
Kevin
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