8.30.06

This is lauren. It felt good to be alive today. I've realized that having anxiety about current affairs is fucking pointless. I will maintain this viewpoint until another problem arises.


It's true that nobody is willing to travel to the woods to visit me.
Yes, I get lonesome.

...but really.
I am 79% social and 21% crazy, so some time to nourish the crazy is alright. I can hang out in a remote house with awesome and do housewife activities. I can sit and relax and not think too much about where my life is headed at this very moment, even though I really don't know where I'm going and I wonder if where I am is beneficial at all. Most of this stuff is work related.

Plus living in the city right now would be the same runaround I'm doing here, only with more people and shit to sift through every day. If I begin this life as a serious commuter, it can only get better from here. Who knows. I'll have all the answers by the time I turn 23.


What happened on this day, the year 2006:
Alex moved things from kearny to ridgewood, and went to ikea to find nothing he was looking for. He will be home late.

I started the day rested, but soon developed severe bad-feelings at work, which subsided into complacency and then into passive glee. I also talked to jess jess (heart) and went to target. I bought a toaster.

8.26.06

I just saw a commercial for a ringtone that is a high pitched frequency that can't be heard by adults, so kids can have their phones on at school and at family dinners and their teachers/parents won't hear them ringing. In the commercial, they play the ring, and I can't hear a damn thing. I am hoping it comes on again before I leave to visit Daria so I can listen really hard and not feel like an old person.

I remember learning about this certain frequency a couple of months ago; I heard that owners and managers of establishments that attract teenage loitering (i.e. convenience stores) would start using the frequency outside to keep kids from hanging around their stores and meddling. If only this noise could be used in combination with the "brown noise" so kids could involuntarily shit their pants and then get headaches and leave crying.

7.21.06 - 8.05.06

So it has been quite a while since I've written about life. A lot of things have happened, and so quickly that I still don't think I've completely accepted that they're real. I am now Northeastern in a new home with the boy I love.

I bought a Prius. I like my new car very much. It has GPS, so even if I do get lost I can find my way home. I bought my car from Stokes Brown Toyota in Beaufort, SC; the people I dealt with at the dealership were absolutely amazing. If you are in the low country and looking to purchase a Toyota, I highly recommend you check them out.

I gave my beloved snake, Drake Barnaby Smith-Serota, to Wojtek, the best Pollock ever. I am sad to not have him around, but Awesome is the best stray poodle-cum-guard dog in the world.

The move was a fucking disaster. Alex came down for what should have been a 3-day trip and ended up a gruesomely hot and humid 5 days of customer service hell. We were finally able to leave Savannah at 8 p.m. on Saturday, 8.5 (we were scheduled to take off Friday morning). The tardiness of the movers squashed some of our exciting plans to detour from the drive up north - an example being our stop in Raleigh to visit the fine gentleman Pedro Warren. We ended up meeting with another Pedro, however, at South of the Border at around 1 a.m. Sunday morning. Here we befriended some fiberglass animals and bought coffee mugs.



We took a short nap post-South of the Border and then continued northward. We had to make a stop in Pennsylvania to pick up some amazing picture boards we bought on Ebay. Pennsylvania is the most picturesque place in the northeast. We were extremely exhausted and almost delirious but it was still worth the detour to see the countryside.

We finally got home at around 4 p.m. on Sunday, 8.5. Alex slept for a few hours, I cleaned and got groceries. Thus begins my new life.

I would like to thank Jon and Jess for being amazing during my last few weeks down south.