marching on

[jazzfish]

Over the weekend uilos and I went down to the states for a Mouths of Babes show. We ended up in a wine bar in Gig Harbor, WA, which appears to be a high-end waterfront community. It's located southwest of Seattle, across the Tacoma Narrows bridge. As a sometime engineering student this holds serious historical interest for me. I can vouch for the strong gusts of wind on the way back, though luckily the new bridge doesn't actually twist in the breeze.

The show itself was pretty great. Ty is still amazing, and for whatever reason I like Ingrid Elizabeth more live than in studio recordings. "Beehive" is fantastic, and Ty did "Amaze Me" (the 9/11 song) and "Young James Dean" (possibly the most Ty of the Girlyman songs). And of course, of course, "Brighter In the Dark" was written for a friend of Ty's who killed herself last year, which meant that we both sat in the back with tears pouring down our faces.

Yesterday there was ice cream, though no cake.

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Today I have:

• Watered my plant. I mean, this is an ongoing thing, but it's also a thing that makes the world a very tiny bit better, so. (Plant was a gift from a friend, and had died back almost entirely over the summer due to being accidentally starved of water. It's been encouraging to watch the shoots poke up and unfurl into leaves this fall and winter. Any metaphorical similarities to the current life situation of this journal writer are left as an exercise for the audience.)
  
• Wrote to Jen Mooney, one of my college profs (RenLit and Tech Writing), to let her know that her classes meant something to me. I keep in touch with her via occasional Facebook comments, but that's not the same.
  
• Signed up for Evo, the other Vancouver carshare, because I'm tired of being annoyed by seeing Evo cars around when I'm looking for a car2go.
  
• Written an email to my folks that I've been composing in my head for a couple of weeks now, because the political events of the weekend warranted mention.
  
• Done a nontrivial amount of actual work for work.

Tonight, laundry and general chilling.

Could be worse.

Comments

[shanaqui]

Hurrah for getting stuff done. And you make me want to write to my college tutors too; even now I'm in a science course, they shaped the way I think and approach things in non-trivial ways.

[jazzfish]

I do recommend it. I mean, since early November I've been a big proponent of telling people how much they mean, because you never know when they may not be around, but.

[reedrover]

Worse is reading those lyrics. Oh, man.

[jazzfish]

Yeah, no kidding. :/ I mean, I didn't explicitly warn, I guess, but context is still a thing.

[reedrover]

Oh, yes, you gave plenty of context. It's still... wow. That is a generous spirit to sing that while re-living the loss.