resolutions:
swear less
moisturize more
do things in time to not be rushing (getting up, writing papers, dealing with bureaucracy, buying monthly t passes)
start liking green tea
i already brush my teeth regularly, so i think that about covers it.
well, i realized that i didn't even TRY to blog about portland. let's start with that. i had a great time. i think i was pretty mean to jake for the first few days i was there. i can't really explain why. it's hard to feel like you belong in three different cities and to constantly change your mind about which one you want to try to live in when you grow up, but that's not an excuse. i feel bad about it. but i got better. first, we went to jordon and laine's house, where we stayed at hotel jordo in an empty room, bed and everything, which was great because i was all prepared to stay on andre's couch for four nights and it was way, way better than that. we had a pretty good time on new year's, just hung out with each other, little miles and dave h. the next day we went to see superbad at the laurelhurst. can't beat those three dollar theaters. after that we went to the chaat house, which i dream about sometimes, and then to powell's city of books, which is a dream all on its own. i blew a bunch of money on books i really love that barely fit in my suitcase. we also hit up the avalon, which is a nickel arcade that is both a wonderland and a nightmare. we went to burgerville several times and drank a lot of incredible coffee. it wasn't that cold, and it only rained for like one day. i really miss portland a lot. i also saw sarah and matt (hey guys! i sent you something in the mail), which was incredible. i really love visiting friends and realizing that even in a situation where they could be "just work friends," you have a real bond with them, something that's important enough to maintain over long distances. keeping people in your life is a relatively new thing for me. i was talking to my grandmother about it in the car yesterday when she took me grocery shopping and to buy my books, and i voiced some surprise at how important all the people in my life are to me, and how that hasn't always been the case. i also expressed some trepidation for getting closer to them or, in some cases, living with some of them, and she said that it's perfectly natural to screw up friendships when you're younger but as you get older you figure out how to compromise in order to keep the ones you care about around. that made me feel better about several friends i've had serious "breakups" with in the past that i've been thinking about lately, because i worry frequently that all friendships are going to end like that but grammy made me feel like i'm old enough and not-teenage enough for that kind of thing to not happen anymore. so if any friends are reading this, you're stuck with me, suckers!!!
the day after i went to the zoo, i did a bunch of laundry and didn't leave the house. the day after that, i went to the comic art museum. in terms of their standard stuff, i was surprised at how much information and material i was already familiar with because of my significant interest in comics - there wasn't much about the history of comics that they tried to educate me about that i didn't already know. the edward gorey exhibit was pretty cool, though. apparently, he put together a performance of dracula - sets, costumes, screenplay, everything, and not a reeinvisioning of the earlier bela lugosi broadway production that was made into film either - to be performed on the cape, which became so popular it went to broadway (starring john waters) and was eventually filmed. he had an apartment in new york, but also spent a lot of time with his family on the cape and did a lot of work there. in new york, he attended the new york ballet religiously from the 60's to the 80's in a fur coat and sneakers. he only watched television for one single six-day stretch, during which he only watched reruns of the original star trek. he liked it so much he went to see william shatner in a play on nantucket. the interviews with him were hilarious. he really sounds like my kind of guy. but you probably have to be rich and famous, or at least have a cult following, before you can be publicly eccentric. i wonder how famous you have to be to go to the ballet in sneakers and have people be cool with it. i went to to gift shop and got a copy of the gashlycrumb tinies, obviously. i wanted the original amphigorey but they were conspicuously out.
that night i left for boston on the redeye. when i got in the next day, i was homesick for about a dozen places, and very sorry that i didn't get a real burrito when i had the chance. so i drank a lot of water and cleaned the house, and then went to my haircut appointment. my stylist is awesome. my stepmom has a pretty close relationship with her stylist, and it's something that i've always thought was old-fashioned in a really cool way. people used to know the people that cut their hair, sold them groceries and dry cleaned their clothes, but that doesn't happen that often anymore, so when my stylist told me it was lame that i was going home to clean my room with hair that looked so awesome, we went out for bloody marys. i had a great time, although i will probably never actually go out partying with him because 1. he's way too stylish for me 2. he rolls way too expensive for me. but, it is cool to be friends with him, especially since he gave me an incredible "glam blowout" and i got my favorite haircut of my entire life, again. later i went out for indian food (not as good as either the chaat house or naan and curry, but still awesome) and some beers with other english students.
yesterday, it was sunny and i had brunch at my grandparents' house. if you've read this far you already know what i did afterwards. i said about two words about being worried about getting home with about fifty pounds of books and/or groceries, and my grandmother had her coat on and was halfway to the car. my mom says that they're retired so they're more than happy to spend time making my life convenient, but i'm always a little incredulous. and they're not the only ones either - during the holidays, greetings just flooded in accompanied by invitations to visit and offers of one kind or another from aunts and uncles all over the place. i love being related to people.
i was a little hesitant about being excited for classes because i was so busy vascillating between being homesick for home and being homesick for portland, but as soon as i got my books i got really hyper about school. i'll refrain about writing about them here because i'll probably write about them later and this is probably the longest blog entry i've ever written. also, it snowed last night and i've become infatuated with the way snow looks on bare trees. i've always been mildly obsessed with trees. for a while there, i thought owls were going to replace trees in terms of the main thing that is aesthetically pleasing to me, but i think the terrible pictures i took today prove otherwise.
oh, also, i have bangs now. just, you know, casual bangs. but i have them.
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