Travels

[Nyerp]

can you please elaborate? thanks

huh?

[?????]

for a reason, "taking the long route 'home.'"

It annoys me how you can't be assed  to use italics and instead decide to nest quotation marks. hnnggg

[Daddy]

I'm going to New Hampshire on Thursday for a Bright Eyes and The Mountain Goats concert, then probably Boston on Saturday for a What.CD meetup (though considering I live 20 minutes from boston it's not really a travel), then new hampshire again the following weekend and vermont the weekend after.

[the shortest route to the sea]

THERE WAS NO ORGY. Just a lot of drinking and hitting each other with spatulas, plus dramatic readings of Haggis-on-Whey books. Apparently I fell asleep, and someone tried to wake me up by rubbing her breasts against me. Woke up the following morning, did wonderful kinky things. Took a 45 mile bike to visit an old friend while two housemates made yogurt and beer. Today holds clarinet, meeting up with old friends,  seeing Hamlet, and whisky sours.

"Taking the long way home" part is a quote, which is a pretty good reason to use quote marks. :/

[Nyerp]

you live the weirdest life

[Selkie]

you live the weirdest life

Weird, or different than yours?

[Travis]

Weird, or different than yours?

weird

[??????]

i went to boston and cape cod and sandy eggo aaaaaaaaaaand nyc
TIME SLOWED DOWN SO MUCH

[the shortest route to the sea]

Wednesday was more bumming around, with goodbye and farewell excursions. My boyfriend left, had a long island, cried for a while, sort of unfairly got a ride at ridiculous o'clock in the morning from a friend to Cleveland to leave the next day. The weight summer, as an opiate, had gotten me and I needed to break out. Up until then I'd been thinking so heavily in terms of the question "What should I do now?" when I should've been asking for more help, focusing on what I need to be doing, for myself and others.

CHICAGO IS PORN. The light rail is a soaring sum of scars about the city, I broke vegan for deep dish goodness, and spent a night watching TV and talking philosophy with a friend. The newness and the quick turn around was a jolting and redynamizing force into cleveland.

Friday: got the bus to Pittsburg for a 3 night stay. First two nights were in suburban household with college friends, which was starting to get awkward, like I'm just leeching off the kindness of friend's parents and suburbia in general. My first day busking I met a lovely and likeminded person, ended up walking with her all around the city and talking about health, sex, death, family, the stuff. Otherwise I was cuddling with cute lesbian friends who were putting me up and guiding me, making money busking, and getting free produce from a friend who works at a coop. Last night was kinda crazy. Was going to stay in a squatter's house on the district, but did a really shitty job of finding anarcho folk and didn't verify that it was real. Wasn't. Slept for an hour in the bushes but had too many bug bites, had felt shitty all day anyway. Ended up regaining my confidence and wandering accross bridges in insomniac mode, seeking beautiful shit: families fishing at 3am, 33 FUCKING DUCKS just hanging out, trains, bridges, graffiti, and the gorgeous fucking sunrise. I said hello to everyone.

Monday: got a bus to erie, which is a lakeside town I used to stop in on greyhound, if briefly. It's a lot more run down than I realized, lots of poverty and no jobs. Ended up going to an evangelical homeless shelter with two brothers. It was terrifying and amazing to see how shelters work firsthand, how many vets and truly fucked people are there. I had to worry about passing both as a woman (which failed lol) and as someone who really needed this (which I kind of did, I was planning to dumpster my meals). Either way I'm kind of jarred and getting the fuck out of here to Toronto, where I know no one and have no place to stay yet. WE'LL SEE.

It's good to travel alone at least once, but I need to do this with a partner.

[Hiro]

Everything on the east coast seems so much closer together 
It's really cool that you make everything work out the way it does. 

[YPrrrr]

Everything on the east coast seems so much closer together 

That's because it is