"I might have one drink tonight."
"Okay, but watch out. One drink turns into another, which turns into another, which turns into another. Pretty soon you're the drunk girl playing Ticket to Ride."
-Shannon, on mixing alcohol with board games

Sometimes Postsecret makes me happy.

I met someone.

She seems crazy, so I think there is a good spot for her in my life. She's a regular at Starbucks, and she matches my loud volume and excitement. We finally got the courage to say that we should start hanging out, and when I wrote my number on her passion tea, I got butterflies, which is really funny. Platonic butterflies, if that makes any sense.

It goes back to Kayleigh. I've been trying to replace the spot she had for a really long time. She was at the very least crazy; maybe even a maniac. She made me laugh so hard that it was really hard not to pee my pants. We took a lot of espresso in those days.
I tried to replace her with Emily, who is not all the way crazy, but really wonderful. She manages a pretty legit cover.
Kelsey G. was where my real hope came because she is young and something about growing up makes you stop laughing like a maniac. She makes me pretty happy.
And now there is new girl, and I will have to see how it pans out with her.

But basically Kayleigh, this is my last letter to you.

It has taken me a lot of people to equal your exuberance at 5:30 in the morning. I still don't know if I've found it yet, but I realize that we are now two ships in the night, and I have to get over you somehow.
So here's to the memories: I think of you fondly, but the picture is fading. You might even be settling into a semi-normal existence now, and I don't hold that against you.
Love,
Rache

Quotation, quotation
I really can't say all the drama I have been subjected to this week since coming back from San Clemente. It will all go away soon I hope, or get worse.
So, the only thing I have on my mind that is okay to talk about is the show Weeds, which is not actually appropriate to talk about either.
So here are some saved up quotes that I find funny, and are easier to think about than this week's real life.

"It's just like, they're normal mushrooms," cooking in the pan, "but they are freaking me out because they are going to be vegan."
-Celisse

"It'd be like, you're hanging out with them and he'll say, 'Can you make me a sandwich" and she'll punch him in the face but then go make him a sandwich anyways."
-Philip, on my apparent future marriage with Collin

"I have a bunch of picks for you guys. They say Metro Station on them, but they work."
-Kenny

"Here's what happened-"
"Just give us the details."
-Tony trying to help Scrib with telling a story during small group

"That's why (coffee's) dangerous," he said.
"It's not dangerous."
"Whatever relaxes you is dangerous. If you don't know that I might as well be talking to the wall."
Don DeLillo, White Noise


"It gave me the agility. To be chill."
-Tony, who will always be hilarious especially out of context


"You lost? well you're just wasting money aren't you?!"
-Philip, who had won $10 from lotto tickets, admonishing Collin

I know it turns you off when I get talkin' like a teen

I never said anything what I felt at Tegan and Sara's SLC concert last week. It was amazing, uh course.

But anyways. I was wondering what it would be like to step out onto a stage and be worshiped by screaming fans every night. To have perfect rock star hair and clothes, and to not be home forever and ever. It freaked me a little.

It was still an amazing concert, and their encore was really good. Dang.

Long overdue Nickisms

"Would you drink champagne if I opened it?"
"Dan, don't threaten me with a good time."

"Wait, will it ever come back?" (on the subject of his "golden" birthday, which was when he was eleven, so he didn't know about it)

"I want to go somewhere wild. Like Maine."

and one from Ashleigh:

"Sometimes I just think about the day-to-day space odysseys."


Oh Nicholas.