it’s 9:30 on a saturday night and i’m sitting at my desk in complete darkness listening to yeasayer. my windows are all open and the breeze circulating around my room feels amazing. this may be the first time in weeks where i’m not running off to other plans, or sleeping on floors/couches/beds that aren’t mine. whenever i’m through with a long stint of constantly traveling and being surrounded from others it always hits me really hard. similar to a detox i suppose. it’s an apprehensive, anxious feeling where my mind and body are still going 120 miles per hour but i have nowhere to go and nobody to be around. occasionally i appreciate spending time alone, but i think i’ve come to accept that i’d rather spend a majority of my time surrounded by people. even if it’s in complete silence.
i went camping yesterday. a 4 hour canoe ride through fallen trees and class 5 rapids. alright no rapids, but a LOT of wayward tree branches. once we got the hang of steering the canoe, it proved to be an excellent ride. we stopped a few times along the way to swim and eat. there came a point where we never thought we’d reach the campsite, but once we saw the gold stillettos hanging from the “mullica hill campsite” sign, we knew we reached our destination. i’m not really sure who lost their golden stillettos while camped out in the pines, but good thing they were there to signal our landing. the campsite was empty for the most part, a few other groups arrived later and dispersed amongst the trees. played frisbee, drank steel reserve and whiskey, had a fire, hot dogs on sticks, spaghettios, smores, posed for pictures with the passed out, contemplated(made future plans) lives as crusties, began planning our epic 4 person birthday celebration, tied friends to the ground with a tent stake to prevent wandering. woke up around 6am to the sounds of party bird. went back to sleep until 8ish. dismantled the camp. smores for breakfast. back in the canoes for what we expected to be another 4 hour trip to the return point. the trip back was a little painful due to aching muscles and stiff necks, but we sucked it up and felt the burn. stopped a few times at rope swings and bridges to jump off and swim. realized about 2 hours into the trip that we had already reached our destination and celebrated by breaking open a watermelon and devouring it on the spot. drove back to philly, chipotle for lunch. home, showered, napped for 4 hours.
there’s quite a bit going on in new york this weekend, but i think i’ve reached my travel limit for the next few days at least. i should give it a break to regroup and reorganize my life. oh, i was recently diagnosed with lymes disease which is an annoyance. however; i’m on a strict 3 antibiotic a day regiment and hopefully will be cured(or something) once i’m finished with them. fortunately, the only symptoms i’ve dealt with thus far have been fatigue(constantly), and occasional memory/concentration issues. apparently it can become way worse, so i’m thankful(hopeful?) that we caught it early enough to prevent further problems.
the past month or so has been pretty good to me. non stop, but very entertaining. i got home from spending two weeks in tennessee/kentucky last sunday. we spent a few days at lucien’s before going to bonnaroo(amazing again), and then spent another week back there relaxing, making friendship bracelets, hanging out in indiana, going to the farm, eating delicious food. in the week after, i spent an entire day asleep, attended dayna’s graduation party, layed around the house for a few days, and went to taking back sunday. haha.
now i’m finished, and i don’t know what to do with the rest of my night/tomorrow/life. slow down.
