Made It

Before I say anything else, let it be known that I have the sweetest boyfriend in all of the universe. He just brought me pizza and a margarita. :-)

Travis and I loaded our stuff into the U-Haul yesterday, and man, we have a ton of shit. A ton. We packed an entire 17-foot truck to the max. I blame it mostly on Travis - but then, he was the one with the couch and the bed. And more movies than I can count. And a bunch of records. And I don't even know what all. We were afraid my stuff wouldn't fit after we loaded his, because it took up most of the space.

Well, after we did our loading, we said our goodbyes, and then headed out. Driving through Dallas, I nearly had a heart attack, because at one point, we had an 18-wheeler on one side of us, a concrete wall on the other, and an 18-wheeler in front of us. Despite my sleep deprivation, I was wide awake with terror until we made it out onto I-20. Then finally, I fell asleep for a little bit.

When I awoke, Travis and I began to talk, and we had an absolutely wonderful long conversation that reminded me why I feel just fine with the idea of being 175 miles away from home with just him and my own self to rely on.

Then... we were here. We pulled up in front of John's house and honked the horn. He came out and hugged us, and suddenly, somehow, we live here now. It's crazy.

I slept for most of today, but Travis dived headlong into this new web series that he and John and Greg and Harvard are working on called Infamous. Supposedly, I should be working on it later, and in the meantime, John has given me the task of promoting it around the internet, which I am doing so even now. (As in - go check it out on Facebook. Website up soon!)

We unloaded most of our stuff this evening, and it's a lot of stuff to maneuver. I guess we'll figure it out.

But man, we're here. We're living the dream!

The Day of the Move

I have been awake all night long packing my stuff, as I am the master procrastinator. I am so exhausted I can barely move. If I can just get through loading the U-Haul, I can doze on the way there. I am officially too tired to care about sentimentality right now.

On a side note, I have now looked into the depths of hell itself. It's in my closet.

Well, I have to go finish this moving thing. Next time I post, I should be in Shreveport. :-)

Random people are the best.

So, like I mentioned in my last entry, I went and checked out this new 24 hour coffee shop. I walked in and managed to strike up a conversation with the barista, and eventually a friend of his who was doing homework there wandered over and joined in. This was a little after 4 - I finally left at 7.

Ack, my cat is trying to lick my hands while I type.

Anyway, I guess I'm just excited (and a little sad about the bad timing) that I'm meeting all of these random cool people, drinking coffee, and having wonderful conversation. Mix that in with working on my art and getting to see all of my close friends before I go... well, I'm just so happy that I'm having a fantastic last week here in town before I'm off on an exciting new adventure.

Everything is just going rather well. I hope there's no "other shoe" involved here; in fact, I kind of feel like this IS the other shoe, after a rough patch of depression.

The only downside is that now my sleep schedule is totally out of whack and I don't even want to go to sleep because I have so much stuff I want and/or need to do.

Oh well. Can't have everything, I guess. :-)

Laundry marathon.

I don't think I've ever done this much laundry in one week.

Five days till the big move. Well, since it's in the wee hours of tomorrow already, I guess you could say four.

Last night I went to the Square to drink up the scenery (and some good Jupiter House coffee) before I left. I met up with two very interesting individuals and had a great conversation for a large portion of the night. I also made a few last-minute purchases at Recycled Books: Letters to a Young Artist and Ghosts & Vampires in New Orleans, plus a Recycled Books hoodie that I have wanted for years so that I may remember the best used bookstore in the world whilst I am gone. (And how many of them are painted purple and reside in an old opera house?)

Then, I headed over to Bryan and Kevin's apartment with Travis. Kevin was asleep, but Jared, Jeremy, and a guy named John whom I have met on a couple of occasions were there. We had nice time just hanging out.

Apparently, tomorrow we're having a going away party at our friend Evan's house. That should be fun, and kind of sad I guess, too.

Well, I may head over to Big Mike's Coffee Shop, a relatively new coffee shop in Denton that is supposedly open 24 hours. As it is now four in the morning, I don't seem to have much else to do, and now is a good time to investigate this supposed 24 hours thing.

Guess that's it for the time being. <3

Lightbulb

So, I got a new idea for a script today, which made me ridiculously euphoric, because I haven't gotten such a good, solid idea like that since I got the idea for my screenplay Half Empty. I think I need to let it incubate for awhile, but I'll start work on it VERY soon. YAY!

Travis and I are moving on Monday the 25th. Kind of super duper crazy. I'll miss Denton a lot; it's my home, and after having seen other places, I know that it's really and truly a unique, amazing town with one of the best arts communities for a place its size, especially in flippin' Texas. But hey, onward and upward, right?

I watched Juno yesterday for the third time. I LOVE THAT MOVIE.

I also really love coffee. Probably more than I love Juno.

Songs that make me happy inside.

I am FINALLY looking up all of those songs I've heard on the radio/at karaoke/on someone else's iPod/etc. and LOVED but did not know, much less own... and I'm downloading them and making badass playlists. (As if no one else on the planet does this... sorry, but I rarely if ever make time to pursue music, so this is a triumph. Sad, I know.) Special kudos to dirpy.com, which converts YouTube videos into mp3s.

Here's what I'm feeling tonight:


"Attitude" Playlist (so far):
1. "Tik Tok" - Ke$ha
2. "Just Dance" - Lady GaGa
3. "Mitternacht" - E Nomine
4. "Bad Romance" - Lady GaGa
5. "Supermassive Black Hole" - Muse
6. "Engel" - Rammstein
7. "The Fame" - Lady GaGa
8. "Stigmata Martyr" - Bauhaus
9. "Beautiful Dirty Rich" - Lady GaGa
10. "The Perfect Crime No. 2" - The Decemberists
11. "Poker Face" - Lady GaGa
12. "Somebody" - Blue October
13. "Diamond Dogs" - Beck
14. "Before I'm Dead" - kidneythieves
15. "Local God" - Everclear
16. "Misery Business" - Paramore
17. "Paper Planes" - M.I.A.
18. "Never Gonna Stop (The Red, Red Kroovy)" - Rob Zombie
19. "Criminal" - Fiona Apple
20. "Voodoo Child" - Rogue Traders

"Sex" Playlist (so far):
1. "Horny" - Mousse T.
2. "Fuck the Pain Away" - Peaches
3. "Closer" - Nine Inch Nails
4. "You Can Be As Loud As The Hell You Want (When You're Makin' Love)" - from Avenue Q
5. "Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo" - The Bloodhound Gang
6. "Lovegame" - Lady GaGa
7. "Animals" - Nickelback
8. "Milkshake" - Kelis
9. "The Bad Touch" - The Bloodhound Gang
10. "Crazy Rap" - Afroman
11. "What's Your Fantasy" - Ludacris
12. "Boys Boys Boys" - Lady GaGa
13. "Love You Fuck You Sleep" - Derek Glenn


Epic win? I think so. :-D