New York Update

Am in New York. Mom bought me clothes today, and then we proceeded to fill the fridge. Packin it in packin it in. Plannin and filling and talking and worrying, my mother's favorite activities. Oh Mom. It's good to see you, wish I didn't get so annoyed with you all the time. I'm at the point where I won't even try to argue, I just dismiss whatever you say with a huff or silence. I dunno what my problem is, years of habit I guess. We talk in strange ways.

It's good to have clothes though! Less good to have my period. More good to have Chef Boyardee. Less good to have winter. It's nicer here than it was in Seattle though.

I miss you Francisco! I can't wait for...everything. You, Zoe, Partykidz, Audrey, Mexican Food, Christmas, Zazie's, New Year's dancing, gossip, more family, less family, drunk family, hot tub-ing, highland house scabies, New Zealand in better colors, more traveling, the end of traveling. Not sure which point in time I'd most prefer to be at, as you can tell. An unsettling state.

Oh, I finally got to visit Archie McPhee in Seattle, after years of waiting. It was, as expected, a store full of cheapo wacky junk. Would be the place to go for a theme party or a childlike friend or Halloween, less good when you're trying to maintain a perfect 1 suitcase batting average. Will need to upgrade bag size here in NY. Was cool to finally see Kate in her home setting of post-LI life (never visited her in college, so have only seen her in unusual state of displacement during home-for-the-holidays times). Spent all my money there, a bit alarming but survival can be done for $0 dollars a day. I learned things in college, secrets of poordom, magic things. Also, through fasting, I learned humans don't have to eat every day. Problem? What problem?

Wonder if I can call Frankie yet. This time zone thing sinks a stinky turd in the corner pocket.