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December 7th, 2008

09:43 pm - A Distraction from the December Blues
You know what's good to do when you're sick and vaguely discontent? Travel up north to visit friends! Especially one you haven't seen since the VM series finale party (and what the hell, why did no one tell me about the flagrant error in my list of people???). Here are some things that are good for the soul:

driving up Saturday morning with Smellerbee
rocking out to "Stockholm Syndrome" and chilling out to "Alleyways"
geeking out over books with sophia_helix and actoplasm
sharing sophia_helix's idiosyncracies in collecting books
seeing lodessa for the first time in a year and a half
sophia_helix's noticing and complimenting my use of conditioner, apparently rare among men
a crazy chicken sandwich with pineapple and teriyaki sauce at Islands
cheddar fries!
showing off my new ringtones
holing up in sophia_helix's apartment and drinking hot spiced cider and dark Mayan chocolate
watching three episodes of Spaced: "the paintball episode," "the rave episode," and "the finger-gun episode"
"Aren't you gonna answer that?"/"I have an answering service."/"You've got an answer for everything."/"I can't believe you just said that."
realizing that sophia_helix is a really, really big Spaced fan
having to be told that the Cones' language consists primarily of references to TV shows and movies and lots of "your face" and "your mom," as if I were unfamiliar with that concept
rolling up all kinds of crazy shit in We ♥ Katamari
listening to Garbage, one of the first albums I ever bought (at the Half-Price in the Rice Village the summer after graduating high school), on the way to lodessa's apartment
getting my ass kicked in Soul Calibur III by lodessa's friend Davis
"He's not really an owl."
discovering that Davis is an Avatar fan
reminiscing about our childhood shows
hearing lodessa's boyfriend talk more within a minute of entering the apartment than I'd heard him talk the two times I'd seen him
lodessa's chicken soup (for the tummy, not the soul)
watching sophia_helix and lodessa fight with the Buffy and Faith characters they created
almost rolling up the whole world
sleeping in Sunday morning
curling up with Cupcake the kitty
revisiting our favorite Trevor memories
pumpkin spice muffin at (lodessa's great-aunt) Mimi's Cafe
crab, sweet corn, and asparagus quiche + lodessa's pan-seared scallops
lodessa's reaction to picking up on the fact that I had read the Babysitters Club books
showing lodessa BJ Novak's "Wikipedia Brown" and then reading aloud Adam Cadre's "Wikipedia Brown and the Case of the Captured Koala"
watching some of Goldentusk's theme song parodies
seeing EuroTrip, which the Cones adore, and finding it surprisingly funny
finally understanding and appreciating the wondrous glory of "Scotty Doesn't Know"
messing with Lily the kitty back at sophia_helix's apartment
going from looking up "arugula" on Wikipedia to spending ten minutes reading about loan words
driving down with Smellerbee once again