Nebraska State
So we were hanging out with Bricks Saturday night – he hasn’t left yet, but he’ll be gone by next month, he says – and we ended up playing around with the phrase “Nebraska State”. It may be because of the alcohol that made us remarkably sloshed that evening, but we actually had fun appending the phrase Nebraska state with all sorts of words and sentence fragments. Some of them were fairly mundane: Nebraska State Patrol, Nebraska State Bird, and all that jazz. But as the night progressed and we inevitably became drunker, Bricks started to make up some really bizarre Nebraska State somethings like Nebraska State cheese, or Nebraska State umbrella corporation, or Nebraska State of the state address. By the end of the night we’re laughing, and we had concluded the convoluted conversation by declaring that we had all been in a Nebraska State of Mind.
As irreverent as that may sound, I happen to think that it was our own special way of showing how much we love living in the Nebraska State. We simply love to believe that many things belong to this state, that the Nebraska State has a Nebraska State everything that may be strange and sometimes hilarious, but at the same time part of a very unique identity.
We were on our way home when I realized that I was humming the Nebraska State song. I grinned, and sang the words.
