Micmacs

I spent my second day in Portland in bed trying to fix my lungs which I unfixed while drinking and riding around on a motorcycle the night before. I, of course, also had my usual get- to- a- new- city- and breakdown- thing. This time I was upset for maybe 2 hours. Forestville was three days, San Francisco was a week, so maybe my arrival in the next new city will only include a few moments of tears and anxiety. I am obviously getting better at this whole thing.

I spent a large portion of that day on the phone with G, where we had one of first honest conversations. This is not to say that there are any resolutions to my predicaments, but I am somehow now satisfied with the unresolve. I feel understood, I understand him, and I have a lot of hope that there will be a beautiful friendship in our future.

Yesterday, I pulled myself out of bed around noon (I am still wheezing, this whole pneumonia things is getting ridiculous) and spent some time with Alex! Now, I haven't hung out with a girl my age in over three months. Sure, I have spent time stealing crayons from a rival park with Olivia the thirteen year old, and watched Antiques Roadshow with Lauri the 55 year old, but I have not had more than a 5 minute conversation with a girl in her twenties in a very long time. Because of this, I was very excited to be living with Justin's girlfriend Alex. Boys are great, but I missed having conversations with someone who isn't trying to sleep with me. I have also missed shopping, nail painting, and all of those other horribly girly things that I never thought I would miss when I left Richmond.

It turns out that she is also pretty excited about having another girl friend. We immediately bonded over dinner at a dark, kind of gross restaurant that I think we will avoid from now on. Next we went to Laurel Hurst, which is a really cool, really cheap movie theatre where we watched "Micmacs," the new Jean- Pierre Jeunet movie. It is possibly my favorite film of his so far and I left the theatre with a huge smile. Did I mention you can order drinks and food in Portland movie theatres? Well you can, and its awesome.

a scene from Micmacs- go see it- really!

Alex and I now have plans to do yoga together, for her to teach me how to cook, and to engage in many super- girly conversations.

I have my first writing class in a few hours!