saturday june 16 2001    |    5:12 p.m.

i will be in columbus in less than 48 hours.

!!!

can't wait to take a short vow of silence with you at le café.

and romp around the city with you, catching up on all our missed or rushed cigarette breaks.

i would love to see all of you. tell me if you'll be around and would like to, as the gringos like to say, fiesta! (not to be confused with siesta -- no time for napping!) so i arrive on monday afternoon and leave on sunday, july 1st. i. cannot. wait.

as soon as my parents return from the barber (my dad's beard was getting out of hand -- no electric razor could've handled that problem unassisted), i am going to get my hair cut. i'm thinking short, and i'm thinking roll-out-of-bed, hairdrier-not-an-option messy. i hope supercuts can handle that. sounds easy enough, no? i just hope i don't frighten the boy when he meets me at the terminal.

anyway so post-cut there is the possibility that mom will want to maybe splurge on a new pair of pants, since my ancient beloved brown men's pants went kaput a couple of months ago. then a trip to the airport to pick up the plane tickets, and back home to start on father's day dinner (thanks for the idea, fritzel). tomorrow a frenzy of packing and sorting out what records and books and photos and things i want to take to show mark. lots of stomach butterflies and goosebumps. odd looks from the parents.

oops. mom just called. salon closes at 6, so i guess the haircut will be happening tomorrow. yes, i know this is vital and heart-stopping information.

julie and i both fly out on monday, albeit for completely different destinations. i'm selfishly happy about the coincidence, though, because this way i probably won't have much time to dwell on it at first. i'm going to miss you so much . . . i don't know if i'll be able to make myself get the borg cd now -- i'll cry my eyes out whenever i listen to it and then feel cheated for allowing james taylor to have an effect on me.

mark is trying to convince me that pavement (the band, not the asphalt) is not evil. i'm doing my best to be receptive. i will admit that slanted and enchanted sounds decent over the phone. now i just need to work the sebadoh magic on him. wish me luck -- we're both opinionated bastards.