i'm wearing a sweater and a pair of pajama pants.  i haven't worn the pants in like three years.  i wear shorts inside the house in the middle of january.  hell, in the middle of january, i wear no shirt and a pair of gym shorts.  and, here it is june and i'm in a sweater and a pair of pants.  oh, the irony.

jen and i left for the beach yesterday morning at around ten am.  we traveled casually, stopped in gap and ate some breakfast.  i hadn't talked (really talked) to jen since the senior trip, so a three hour trip was a good time to catch up on one another's lives.  we listened to ac/dc, steve miller, sabbath, bob marley - lots of old stuff.  the trip went faster than i imagined it would.

we got to bethany first, where jen and i put three quarters in a meter, and then hooked up with my mom.  she provided us with beach towels, and we ran into the water quickly.  it was numbing.  we got out, my brother got us some chicken fingers from the fry shop, and then we were off to ocean city.

got to oc, went and met lindsay at her hotel.  they were just about to go out for dinner.  i wasn't hungry, and neither was jen, but we tagged along with fallon, angie, amanda and linds.  everyone seemed really on edge.  the waiter sucked, and lindsay flipped out on management.  i tried my best to lighten things up.  i won't go into details regarding our meal at big pecker's, just because i'm trying hard to forget the meal.  we ended up leaving looking really spiteful.

we got ice cream on the way back to the hotel.  that helped.  then, jen, linds and i hit the boardwalk.  this was probably the best part of the evening.  we walked up and down, hit some shops.  i went to my sticker shop and found an operation ivy sticker, and also a usual suspects poster which i snatched up quickly.  atlantic books housed a copy of joyce's a portrait of the artist as an old man for two dollars.  bling.  we went into a skateshop where jen and linds looked at underwear and i considered buying a promise ring t-shirt.  i love that band.  at any rate, i really shouldn't waste my money.

from there, linds packed up some clothes, and we bid the girls farewell.  we drove off to bethany, where my trailer was awaiting us.  everyone was just pretty much tired, but we laid around talking to my mom, tyler, my aunt sharon and my brother's friend charles benway.

this morning, we all woke up around like nine-thirty or so.  my mom said she'd treat everyone to breakfast, so we headed over to hocker's.  i had eggs and home fries for breakfast for the second morning in a row.  bought food and drinks for the trip.  saying goodbye to linds was hard.  i just wanted to stand there holding her forever.  alas, all things end, and jen and i hit the open road again.  this time, mineral and jimmy eat world were played.  jen bought me gas in gap, then i dropped her off in new holland.

got home, sat around all afternoon.  then, tonight, i watched donnie darko.  i won't go into the full details of what the film's about - i'd rather you rent it - but it broached a subject i've been mulling over for a while now.  at the climax of the film, i muttered three words, almost under my breath:  "it's all connected."

and i think back to a week ago, in the car with lindsay, her saying "everything is relative."

ever think on how you hear a new word, and then once it's in your vocabulary, you start hearing it everywhere?  well, ok, maybe it's just that for the first time you notice how common the word is once you know what it means.  sure, maybe it's that.

and maybe it's all connected.

check it out.  it's one of the best made movies i've seen quite recently.  have to return it tomorrow.  i'm thinking i'll pick up a couple more.  also, work from eleven to five, and i think i might take in insomnia as well.  for now, adieu.