Lonely musings of someone who needs to get out of the house.
(It's been resurrected. Again.)Cody left for Europe five days ago. 13 more to go. This trip is much harder for me than last time. I think the difference is that last time, I had a job to keep my mind off of him not being here, but this time, I have no obligations on any sort of time schedule. I applied to work at Victoria's Secret and I'm meeting with a lady from the church I used to work at who has an interior design studio. I'm going to do some summer work for her to satisfy my 300 hour internship requirement for Woodbury. I really hope those go through so I have something meaningful to do.
I've been reading a lot. I started The Lord of the Rings because its one of his favorite books and I've never read it. I'm also reading Alice in Wonderland, which is much different than the movie and definitely written under the influence of something spectacular, and The Lady Is Not for Burning, a play about which craft and women, I supposed. And lots of other things.
Innocence! Dear girl,
Before the world was, innocence
Was beaten by a lion all round the town.
And liked it.
I've been spending a lot of time with Megan, Chris's girlfriend. It's been good to spend mornings talking about whatever comes to mind over coffee and a croissant on the sidewalk on Grand. I think that what we have is what people think of when women talk about "girlfriends". The day before yesterday, we went out to lunch at the Continental Deli and had sandwiches, then we went to the mall (to turn in applications, but go with it), then we went grocery shopping and I went to her house to help her make dinner. I didn't do much helping because I spent more time on the computer frantically searching for a replacement for something of Cody's that I broke. Nice one, Jess.
I've been keeping myself from becoming too depressed about being halfway around the world from exactly where I want to be, or about the one I want to be with being halfway around the world from me, by doing research for a paper he has to write when he gets back and planning our trip out to Texas to bring Danny home. Danny is Cody's best friend from childhood and he is going to school in Texas right now. Cody and I are suffering from wanderlust (me more than him, most likely, since he should be getting his fill in Turkey), so we want to drive out, spend a couple days in Texas, since we've never been there, where I will undoubtedly pick up a horrible accent, and pack up Danny and bring him back to California. Lots of reservations to make - for two rooms, mind you, which is a little bit of an inconvenience but how it's going to be. I am quite excited about this trip because I think road trips are the best way to travel, followed closely by flight. When you've been on the road all day and the car has been silent, not because of anything anyone has said, just because you're so used to the other person being there and the hum of the motor and the wind rushing past that the whole situation has become part of you and comfortably familiar... that's what I love about road trips. On the way back from Sacramento, Cody and I got so deep into the lull of the road that when we'd pass by something that we found interesting or funny, we'd just look at each other and know what the other was thinking. I don't know why I attribute that to the road, I suppose we do that other times, but the distractions that interrupt the silent communication between two people are more common in the city, I think.
I have no idea if that paragraph made sense to anyone else but me.
Let's hope the jobs go through, otherwise there will be many more blogs like this.
posted by Jess @ 12:13 PM
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