replaced rear-view mirrors...
i had a great weekend.

friday i skipped school as all my classes were cancelled. ash & i went to a junkyard, ash's first, and then we went to lexington to visit mami. saw dan vantreese, jade, and eli, too. jade's pregnant. like, what the fuck. i've known her since i was fifteen. seems to be doing well, i guess. she's living on a farm in berea with her super-hippy baby's daddy. i hear josie lamb's back in town, too...i need to get in touch with her.

the next morning we went to shakertown, a nice drive with lots of garage sale pitstops along the way (we came back with so much stuff: a couple of sweet jackets, a pair of jeans, two (!) rubiks' cubes, a Dr. frank-n-furter rubber ducky, a couple of military-issue web belts, a copy of hello nasty, and several books - i'm forgetting things, and that's just my stuff). the sun was shining and we listened to the beatles as we drove along the winding kentucky backwoods roads. we took photos at shakertown, and on the way back had cheese-and-tomato-on-french sandwiches under a bridge and watched crawdads and tadpoles. more garage sales, and back to lexington for sqecial (one of my favorite bookstores ever). got some coffee at common grounds and then blew back up the seventy-five going about 90 (i drove). blew off band practice to see my folks and hang out with my sister. watched the fireworks from the front porch, ash in her new coat.

sunday i spent walking with olivia and heather (her best friend), slightly drunk and not writing the papers i had due today. got an e-mail from john beard who is in japan. i built ash a bookshelf and did a little cooking. talked to dad. basically spent quality time with some people i really love, the perfect way to wind down an eventful weekend.

i've been keeping a real pencil-and paper journal for the last few weeks and it's full of those boring details that seem pointless to record right now but when i'm 42 and find a shoebox in the top shelf of a closet with this little notebook with a van eyck on the cover it will probably make me cry.

it's kind of fun.

i miss stopping by amy sue's after class and drinking coffee and talking her ear off.

as soon as i scrape together the $1 and change needed for postage and buy/beg/steal/borrow some envelopes, three of you have letters coming, .
as soon as i scrape together the cash for some film i'm going to start taking photos again.
as soon as i scrape together the money for a hub, i'm going to finish the Burleigh and i will be the envy of bike pirates everywhere.

since i haven't been working, i've been getting a lot done school wise. right now i believe i have 95's or higher in all my classes. mmm...tasty. i'll probably find a way to blow it before the end of the quarter, though. i signed up for fall classes this morning and FINALLY FILLED OUT MY COURSE SHEET FOR THE ENGLISH DEGREE!!! yay. spanish may be a hassle, as there's a grammar class that is offered at akward times, but make do i shall. maybe i'll be like mitch, and be six credits away from six different degrees and just drop out. it would be rather characteristic of me. what the hell do i do if not school? gah!

i've been spending a lot of time with ash. not wanting to jump to conclusions, but we seem to fit together rather well.

mauri: I don't know if you'll like it, i don't know if it's your thing...
me: nothing's my thing.

koan: homeslice walks up to gran' massa' 'n says "word up, ol' codger, this here young 'un be dee-lighted if you'd impart to me that there enlightenment whazzit."
to which gran' massa' sez "ya gots t' leave it all behind, 'n give up all ya gots." whippersnapper homslice grins this here grin, real big like, and goes "aw shucks, gran' massa', but i done did that there leavin' behint. i gots nuthin', nuthin', nuthin'." gran' massa' hits whippersnapper homeslice with his stick right up there on his crown n' sez "leave that behint too."