wednesday, june 26th
you drive me crazy/up the wall
my friend from rutgers is in london right now, and she's going to come down to brighton this weekend which should be fun.
she is going to bring down my heartbreaker guitar, which i just cannot wait to start playing. since i sold my old sky-blue squier strat to lucy, i have felt a little bit lost without a guitar in my life. j lent me his, which is cool, but i still just can't wait to see my heartbreaker. it'll be so fucking cool to have the same guitar as robert smith and erin from bratmobile.
i also love showing people round my town. it's a groovy city in the summer, for sure. it's so weird to be here indefinitely this summer, as i usually jet off as soon as it gets sunny.
this time last year, me and josh were living in philly with no money whatsoever. neither of us could find permenant work, so we spent a lot of time driving in and out of the city, job hunting, and then having crazy adventures at night. i really miss having that kind of a summer. this year we're both just getting as much money as we can, so we can have a future together that doesn't involve sleeping in friends' apartments.
i will love leigh forever for giving us her apartment for the summer. she also introduced me to these beautiful heavily salted snack-chips, munchos. they were great. it was a kerouac summer with a bumble-bee bathroom, italian ice, iced chai and tuna-pepper pasta. this nostalgia was also brought on by me finding an old cassette from my digital camcorder which i thought i lost ages ago. the whole tape was made in one day, when i'd just got back from america. i film me hanging with the ps and my lil bro, and my best friend lucy. it was so weird to see myself one year ago. i kept asking myself mindless questions, like, am i happier than i was then? did i know that me and josh would still be together one year on? and it's just me, being me, infront of my digi-camera in a hello kitty tee.
right now, me and josh are on aim talking about it, and looking at this photograph our friend christopher took of us. we look awful in the picture, worn out and heavier than we are now. i can't believe how different we look! i must have dropped so much weight since then, josh too. that summer i did eat a lot. we had junk in our proverbial trunks. i had groovy pink hair though, and a huge jewel-encrusted hello kitty barrette. i am still down that i lost it. i wonder where it is now? but, hey, those were good times. i can't wait till we are back together again.
i am going to convince mai to help me make snickerdoodles some time this week. they sound gorge, and maybe they'll taste like america. i really miss america today!
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