i'm baaaaaaaack.

well, no. that's a lie. i'm not back at all in the "home" sense of things. still in seattle - but nate is gone so i have all day to bum around, burn cd's, perhaps cause a little mischief. ;)

now i'm due to go hme on saturday. there's a bela concert tonight and a sister hazel concert tomorrow night. those seemed like good enough reasons to extend the trip a little longer, so i did. i'm in absolutley no hurry to get back home.

i'm just now realizing that i really did "go big" with this trip. and i'm so fucking glad that i did. chi-town was a blast - i feel like i've really bonded with everyone at last. st. louis wasn't too shabby - it was good to see my aunt and cousins and just relax for a few days. driving across most of missouri and all of kansas was enhanced by the fact that we got a nice new red blazer, and were accompanied by two stuffed animals i bought during a crackattack in some podunk town in kansas.

within about 10 minutes of gettng to kyle's house in denver, i was having the time of my life. mel is just an absolute blast to be around. we went to the concert on wednesday night, which was definitely surprisingly good. thursday we went to see red rocks - i'm dying to see a show there now. ended up in boulder at the fox theater to see chris whitely. due to the fact that mel and i found a bar that was serving $1.50 you-call-its, we never really got to watch the show OR take advantage of our backstage passes, but it's all good. :) 5 TAL vodka and tonics. damn. sooooo much fun.

friday we started the long haul back to seattle. 12 hours in the car that day, 8 or 9 the next.

ew. i feel like i'm rattling off worthless information, so i'm going to stop. no creativity, no flow...

kinda wondering what the come down from this trip is going to be like...it could swing either way. the worst i've had yet, or nothing too intense. i'm already wishing nate was here - and he's been gone all of 4 hours. (yeah, so nate is on a DC trip for 10 days, but i'm still at his house. lovely how that works out. )

time to start burning cd's in a futile attempt to catch my collection up.

pshaw.