so pretty, so incendiary.

he pretty much followed in this train of thought.

i guess thats it.

its funny how im always excited to get home (as much as being back in boulder with no residence can be home) and then i spend less that 24 hours here and feel as though im done with all i want to do. the opportunities here have proven to be false due to the infighting of others so i immediatley think of leaving once again. at the same time i become overwhelmed, wanting to run back to the warm sheets i reluctantly left in pennsylvania, and at the same time i want to make this decision im held back by self-doubt, which really is the best kind.

im in chicago and staying at harpers. i got in from driving from state college at 10ish and watched the end of amadeus then ate then played cards. today i uploaded all my pictures from the last day of camp and all of europe i may add amusing captions on them, but probably not. regardless, here’s where we slept our first night in cologne, i woke up at 5a.m. because my chest hurt from shiverring so fiercely.

i have to be in boulder tomorrow, 14hours away, but i still need to see my grandmother as well.

i managed to upload one whole picture from my trip so far, here you go, its about 500 feet from the med in front of me, or an equal distance to an incredible concrete park behind me. going to haunted house hunting tomorrow, then woodward on friday for megans birthday party and to gather the rest of my things for the drive home. it will be quicker than past years as my bike is broken so no ride will be had, well perhaps some. john left today to do some shows and make money scince his parents stole all of his and ran off to georgia. its raining here so im stuck at the farm again, but louie keeps me company, goodnight.

crossroads is a terrible movie, even when its free.

ok, today may take the cake (and the hystericalness of that word will soon be made apparent). im back in maryland at the farm from last month/last year and got here after a quick drive from new hampshire yesterday. it was there that we (being john, brian, others, and i) rode trails and a skatepark on saturday, then john and i went to timless to see jody and christina and they gave us t- and sweatshirts and we gave them scans of johns trip diary which will soon/someday be joined by my pictures which i picked up today.

which brings us to today. i woke up around 12 and joe and john were already about, so we rode down steep hills very fast to try and play around a large hydroelectric dam, the police said no, so we found a abandoned/haunted house instead, it even had a dead buzzard with a broken neck in the middle of the 2nd floor. then we heading into town so joe could work, john and i rode curbs for a few hours while pictures were processed, then we headed to a video store to try and find super size me.

while looking for it at blockbuster we notice that all the employees are outback smashing an enormous pile of dvds, we say “hey, what cha doin” they say “smashing tyhese dvds that they told us to throw away.” we say “can we have some?” them “o.k, theres a few hundred more in the dumpster over there.” so 80 dvds later we’re back in my car and headed to the used dvd store to work for our dinner. we only manage to sell 7, but we made $12. inspired by our good dumpster fortunes we head next door to a grocerey store and find that they have just thrown out 2-3 bags from the bakery. back to the car with 2 large boxes of cakes, rolls, donuts and what have you.

we head to mcdonalds. here you will learn a fabulous secret that you can use to your advantage because i love all of you so. around this time of year, just prior to halloween, mcdonalds sells coupon books for people to give to kids in place of candy. when your a kid, these make for lousy treats, but, when you’re broke and traveling, they are good enough. for $1 you get 3 apple pies, 3 ice cream cones, 3 small fries, and 3 bags of cookies. we take full advantage of this and buy our coupon books then use them 1 at a time (as required per the rules) whils standing at the counter of mcdonalds. them employees know that they are not supposed to accept them until nov 1st, and only 1 per visit, and onlt to acccept them from childern under 12, but they just think we’re stoned ( we do nothing to dispell these accusations as we cant stop laughing). they find it as funny as us and begin providing us with extra everything and making use enormous sundaes rather than measly cones, plus i get 10-20 free “waters” filled with hi-c orange.

at some point john reaches sugar overload and takes off running through a wal mart parking lot telling me that i can pick him up at the light. this is as i am waiting for my last pie, when i manage to break the creditcard reader in fornt of the register, but we are such good friends with the employees by now that its not a problem. the last thing we order after our 12 free items is another book of halloween coupons. i manage to track down john and we head to best buy to meet joe, but not before launching ice cream at unsuspecting road signs.

at best buy john continues to run around, do jumping jacks, etc. and we quickly decide the best thing to do is go to the mall. we spend 45 minutes in spencers gifts, they have many masks, and strap on busoms.

we decide to make a movie on the walk back to the cars, so john hits me with joes stationary car, then we drive to blockbuster, grad super size me, then head home. during the trip we beging throwing rolls and other assorted bakery items at joes car. we pull out a cake, joe laughes in disbelief then slams on the breaks, but then pulls back up alongside us, still laughing. of course john throws it, and the entire cake sticks directly to joes door with a loud wet smack. and stays in place for most of the ride home.

back at the farm we decide to go run around in the woods, but get scared away on the 1/2 mile walk out and run back, watch the movie and go to sleep.

good thing i finished that roll, my camera got stolen the next day…but i caught the guy that was trying to steal my entire bag, so i had that going for me. im back in boston, broke, angry parents, having fun, laughing, planning to go back for at least a week on the med in december-ish. just started using the credit cards, so im digging that hole now. dont really care anymore, but im still trying to keep from thinking of it as free money, more of my only way home. although i am also homeless. if anyone wants to fill me in on whats happened in the states over the past month it would be cool, all i know is something about mt st helens, there was a presidential debate, and some one mentioned a possible draft reenstatement.

its so nice to be back.

fucking adbusters, ive been doing that for 3 years now…

oh yeah, i meant to start this awhile ago.

i finally jumped a train today, been wanting to do that for ages…i want to stay here, already planning a winter return, swin in th med, get out, ride a ramp 50 feet from the beach, old city flavour with very modern undertones. although thom got mugged here, i feel safe wandering back alleys photoing ghrafitti at 3 a.m., and there?s a lot of it, every building is covered every where. 6 more days…

there would be a new flavour of the month over there, but spanish keyboards are dumb, so here it is for now for you to cut and paste:

http://www.newsday.com/features/ny-p2two3987360sep29,0,2957052.story?coll=ny