Wednesday, December 20, 2006

I'm better at this than Ross

  1. Alabama
  2. Alaska
  3. Arizona
  4. Arkansas
  5. California
  6. Colorado
  7. Connecticut
  8. Delaware
  9. Florida
  10. Georgia
  11. Hawaii
  12. Idaho
  13. Illinois
  14. Indiana
  15. Iowa
  16. Kansas
  17. Kentucky
  18. Louisiana
  19. Maine
  20. Maryland
  21. Massachusetts
  22. Michigan
  23. Minnesota
  24. Mississippi
  25. Missouri
  26. Montana
  27. Nebraska
  28. Nevada
  29. New Hampshire
  30. New Jersey
  31. New Mexico
  32. New York
  33. North Carolina
  34. North Dakota
  35. Ohio
  36. Oklahoma
  37. Oregon
  38. Pennsylvania
  39. Rhode Island
  40. South Carolina
  41. South Dakota
  42. Tennessee
  43. Texas
  44. Utah
  45. Vermont
  46. Virginia
  47. Washington
  48. West Virginia
  49. Wisconsin
  50. Wyoming
Last night, Alice and I were watching Friends, and we got to the Thanksgiving episode where Ross can't name all 50 states. I wanted to give it a shot and could have done it in like 2 minutes, only I couldn't get more than 49. Eventually I googled a map, and LO, I forgot Wisconsin. Which makes sense, since it's in the W's, which just seemed like they were thrown in there to begin with. Also, I have a really hard time visualizing Wisconsin on the map. It's just that with Michigan, the sillhouette is very much like that of Minnesota, which I already do remember. So I draw the outline of the US fairly regularly, and like... Minnesota and the Michigan peninsula merge into like this one single pointy thing and Wisconsin is lost. Anyways, now I know and hopefully I won't forget again. By the way, the only reason I can do this at all is because of Mrs. Niehaus, who taught us a song that lists all the states in alphabetical order in 5th grade. I wonder if I'll still remember that song in like... 50 years.

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