AstroSass

Excess Mental Energy
2002-05-17 01:13:03 (UTC)

Back from the brink

or at least back from my brief journal hiatus. They were
all getting to sound like "Yeah, I have nothing going on in
my life and I also don;t feel like writing so this is
astoundingly vapid and emptyheaded and boring, k?" So I
took a couple of days off. That, and I also developed one
of my signature head colds so I've been going to bed at
like nine-thirty for the past three nights. Although my
voice has pretty much come back now, I definitely sounded
like I'd swallowed a swamp monster for a while. (Trying to
sing was NOT pretty... I destroyed "sunshine, lollipops and
rainbows" in the car yesterday on the way back from
Fredonia with Beth.)

Fredonia was indeed fun... Mel thought it was going to be
her mom coming to visit and was totally surprised that it
was US that had undertaken to road-trip. And cupcakes and
presents and general merriment ensued.

A slew of wonderful conversational excerpts have occurred
over the past few days. So here they all are.

[7:30 Monday morning]
GF: "Beck. Beck, wake up. Don;t wake up mom. I missed the
bus again and she specifically said if I missed the bus
she'd kill me. Can you drive me to school?"

[Monday night after lacrosse game ends]
GF: "Um, I have fungus in my shoes."
Me: "how do you know it's fungus? Like, is it green?"
GF: "Wanna see?... It'll probably make your car smell
really bad though."
Me: "NO."

[Wednesday, on the way to Fredonia, me alone in car
following Sara]
Me: "What the hell? Don't friggin pass any more semis!"

[Wednesday, after arriving at Fredonia]
Me: "Bullshit you don't speed. My speedometer was reading
in the mid-seventies all the way down!"
Sara: "NO WAY. I was going 66, I swear... Your speedometer
is wrong!"




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