2004-05-30 - 10:35 PM

Back. Really didn't expect to be cryptic. I guess I'd thought about it so much, I'd just sort of assumed I'd talked about it.

My schedule for the summer: Flew into Berkely on the 20th, down to SB on the 23rd, flew to Colorado on the 26th (thursday) and got back today (30th), and I'll be in Tucson by next Saturday for summer school.

The thing that had funked me so thoroughly: I hate Colorado Springs. I went because my family was there, to visit them and take care of my brother while the rents were 400 miles away for some wedding thing. Because they needed me there.

I grew up in Santa Barbara. I spent 18 and a half years here, and never even lived in a different room, let alone a different house, let alone a different town until I went away to College. But the house I grew up in is being sold soon, and the whole family will be living in the house they bought in Colorado Springs by the end of the year.

Colorado springs is enough like Santa Barbara to be eerily familier. Same kind of people, same amount of green, same genial weather. But it's different enough to also feel wholly alien and disconcerting. Every time I'm there, from the second I walk out of the airport to the second I go running back onto my plane out, I feel like someone's walking over my grave. It ain't cool.

It was a little easier than I expected, though. Mom's friends took us out for mexican. And their were actual mexicans there. I spent a lot of time hanging out with Gabriella, mom's best friend's daughter, who's mom used to have a master plan for me to marry some day.

I wouldn't say I liked her in that romantic sense, but I was in a mild sort of awe of her. She's so... innocent, without being naive. That weird sort of way where I couldn't even imagine lusting after her, it would feel like I was destroying something beautiful. There's just something really soft about Gabriella.

I also raided Wal-Mart and got: EdTV, Snapdragon, and The Sicilian(5.50 each), Adaptation and Real Genius (7.00 each), Lost in Translation(20.00), and I got Bongwater and Fight Club (14 and 20 respectively) before I left, amounting to a pretty sweet multimedia haul for the stay.

In the house in CS, there's this Harry-Potter-esque room under the stairs. There's also a deck on the second floor that's like a giant floating porch, and an actual porch in front of the house, with steps and everything. Even though I hate the town, I kind of like the house.

The Colorado Springs Airport had free wireless internet. That was fun. I'm back in SB now, and in general, I feel better. Sorry I was cryptic, I genuinely didn't mean to be. When I was writing it, in my head it wasn't ominous and vague sounding, it was just sorta "well... this sucks."

Eh. I gawt bettah.

Billy's right. Vicky Galindo is a special kind of hot.

-Alex

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