weekends heal all
october 16th, 2000

i shouldn't be writing this. i have essays to read for my 
modern/postmodern literature class. i have research on laurie anderson to 
be doing. i have three sections of probability and statistic homework due 
on wednesday. i have a chapter in my astronomy book to read. but you can't 
let a weekend like this go by without writing something about it. 
especially since it has been a much-needed break in the sequence of 
unlucky events that have left me frazzled and crazed for much of the past 
two weeks.

i had a counting crows ticket. 6th row, in the pit, i had been worked up 
for the concert for months upon months. they are by far my favourite band, 
and i've never seen them play live. however, financial troubles crept in 
and i tried to sell in on ebay. i had no takers. after surveying friends 
and trying to find the ticket a new home, i eventually gave up and decided 
to go see them anyway - and i am ever so glad i did. the trip to nashville 
was a difficult one - I-40 held me in a two-hour traffic chokehold. but i 
eventually got there, leaving Ash to spend the evening with Dust and my 
mother, and it was so nice. i made my way to the front and held a position 
with my small personage beside the stage. no tall people in my way, no 
heads to look over. just lights and music and dave mckean scenery. it was 
insanely beautiful. dan threw my pinwheel up on stage for me during "saint 
robinson and his cadallac dream". wonderousness.

i returned to my mother's house, with Ash still awake and laughing and 
running around. she took my blue shawl and danced around with it. she 
would cover her head with it and her face and laugh hysterically running 
to one person or the other. we decided that perhaps she should be a ghost 
for halloween.

she and i went to connor's birthday on saturday and it was so much fun. i 
would describe it all in detail, except that meghan has already done such 
a wonderful job that you should just go read her account. the two of them 
play together so well, and they have so much fun together. it was really 
good to be there - there's just something so cool about being able to 
switch to a conversation comparing the quality of diapers and have someone 
understand what you are talking about.

anyway, i feel good. this weekend was exactly what i needed. even the 
evil-aunt-bitch-from-hell coming to visit doesn't bother me so much. 
partly because my fairy-godmother-aunt is coming the following week to 
spend half a month, and partly because this weekend Dust is coming home 
for fall break.

but i have classes i must get to. i have homework i need to tackle.