| This Time Last Year |
| 11/17/04--Went to Ali's, didn't do anything about Dune, ate peanut butter toast and apple sauce for dinner, worked and looked at bridal magazines, listened to St. Patrick's Day and Back to You, and most significantly, "Comfortable" BECAUSE 11/17/02--Was the first time I saw John Mayer live, and hence the first time I heard Comfortable. Who cares about Nov. 17, 2003...no one. 10/23/04--General sense of optimism this week, finished the last edit of the Story, and then it all spiralled downward Thursday (10/21) evening. Today I'm helping with the pasta party at "the building" (4731 Gallery) for the Detroit Marathon tomorrow. 10/23/03--Records show nothing of this time. No poems, no emails, except a 'testing email'--so yesterday was the day my email starting working again last year. 9/28/04--Now it's not. 9/28/03--At this general time last year, life was rather blissful. 9/9/04 -- Saw the same people at The Beach, but now there's mutual attraction between my friend and Szym's friend. Haha, funny phrase. And phone conversations. On what I was thinking about, I'm trying to give up and I can't and I've been considering telling. Yes, cryptic. Yes, this is mostly for me to be able to look at, I guess. I'm weird. 9/9/03 -- Oops, didn't mean to do this day...the day Heavier Things came out. Except that to me it's still 9/8 right now, b/c I haven't gone to bed yet. I really mean this time in an event-sense, meaning, post-Labor Day weekend. Post-Beach with Emma's family. Last year, I traced initials in the sand and didn't answer questions. Wrote a poem, felt guilty b/c I lied after deciding not to. All about me, it was, to me. 8/12/04 -- About to leave for Canada with Ali's family, can't stop thinking about the John Mayer concert last Friday, at Pine Knob, and incredibly irrationally upset (what's new?). I'm too weird-feeling right now to update the site, add in stuff about the concerts, etc. 8/12/03 -- About to leave for the road trip to the John Mayer concert in Pittsburgh last year, because after the Pine Know and Grand Rapids concerts, my world was not right until I saw him again. I had not processed that that was that, and it was the end for a while, and anyway, when would Counting Crows (my mom's absolute favorite band) ever tour with John Mayer again? 8/2/04 -- Went to sleep probably around six a.m., slept 'til eleven, because of the second annual "August and Everything After" party at Emma's. And we did henna for the first time, although it doesn't appear to have worked very well--that was the first of August, but still. It was after midnight when Ali got four plus buckets of water over her head. My parents' 29th wedding anniversary. 8/2/03 -- Counting Crows/John Mayer concert last year, my (and Emma's) second JM concert, Ali's first, and the first time we heard Bigger Than My Body and Come Back to Bed. The first time we missed Graham Colton Band. UGH. My parents' 28th wedding anniversary. 7/28/04 -- Walked with Ali and her younger siblings (Rachel and Emma joined us) to Patterson Park and ended up getting utterly soaked in the splash pad, or whatever it's called, which I didn't even know existed. Afterwards, Ali and I replaced John Mayer in the Story. It was a sad, sad day. But really, a happy fun day, other than the JM-replacing. 7/28/03 -- I wrote two emails to Ali. Talking about not telling her my FP name. And I went upstairs to write a poem about I didn't know what and I ended up really depressing myself. 6/15/04 -- Day of the surprise party, this year. 6/15/03 -- Emma, Ali, and I fasted. It was Father's Day. Ali and I crumbled at dinner, because both of our families were having steak. |