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I hadn't done this since I went on my Chicago to LA roadtrip with missyjack last October, and I saw it on nu_breed's journal, so I had to give it a try. I really need to find a job that pays me to drive all over again, because I miss it. Not driving a big rig though, I don't think...


visited 43 states (86%)
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I saw this over on a friend's journal, and realized that I haven't done it since I went on my road trips last year. It's looking pretty different now! I haven't spent a night in every one of these states, but I've eaten a meal there. And I've spent the night in a lot of them...


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Looking at this, I really feel like I've really seen a lot of the country!

I spent last night catching almost up on SPN. I watched the last three episodes, so I've only last night's to watch now. I enjoyed them all much more than I did the first half of this season, and LOL MISHA COLLINS. I also watched Monday night's Castle, and just have to say again that I am SO FREAKING GLAD this show exists. It's hilarious without being a comedy and Nathan and Stana have the most amazing chemistry, and it's exciting and moves me to tears sometimes but not too often, and just... yeah. I enjoy it. Also loving White Collar and Southland like air.

aaaaaand I've just realized that my kitchen clock is five minutes slow, and I am seriously running late for work. bbl!

I don't want you to infer from this that I think Californians as a group are great drivers, because LOL, NO, but Fuck, yeah, people who can MERGE. And drive at speed even when there are more than five other cars on the road.

You MAY infer that I am home now. Safe. Though not sound, because it's 103F (about 40C) here today. I HAVE HAD ENOUGH HEAT, THANKS. Apparently though, I brought a freak heat-wave with me that is meant to last three days. *weeps*

Update post tomorrow when hopefully there will be a time of day where it's cooler in this house.

I'm barely over the border from Idaho, and I know that state lines are utterly arbitrary anyway, but I woke up this morning and could feel that I'm no longer in a landlocked state. There are beautiful lakes and rivers out there, but it's the ocean that calls to me, and I cannot wait to be close to it again.

Next stop Vancouver, BC! \o/

well. next stop breakfast. om nom nom. But then I'm headed west.

Cheeks made a vid about the repeal of Prop 8, which is both hilarious and sadly true (at least to my experience). It also has an important message.



The hearteyes I have for this man, though. Seriously. And he's doing a performance with Tom Lenk (Andrew from Buffy) written by Jane Espensen (writer of too much awesome to list) and I really want to go! It could kind of be done on my way home from Atlanta to see Adam, but I'm not sure if I can do the flights that way without it costing a fortune. Thinking of it, though. It was so worth it to go down for the Laramie Project performance last year.

as a TOTALLY random aside: I am in De Smet, South Dakota, aka "The Little Town on the Prairie." It's totally surreal. Laura Ingalls and her family almost froze and starved to death about a quarter of a mile from where I am now sitting and making use of the hotel's free wifi, with a/c blasting. THIS HURTS MY BRAIN.

I'm still on the road, still having awesome fangirl times, and will update soon with further details of adventures. This whole road tripping thing is a little crazy.

Next stop, Texas!

I had an amazing time in Joshua Tree yesterday, though the desert is exhausting! I slept for 11 hours last night. It could be that LA is exhausting too, though :D

You can read more about yesterday here.

I'm falling farther and farther behind with all things LJ, though I am managing to read more than I'm managing to comment on. I hope that you will all forgive me! I miss coiledsoul and glendaglamazon already, but am looking forward to seeing loveflyfree this evening. And tomorrow that giant hole in the ground! :D

I'm feeling a lot more sanguine (and now I have "It means hopeful. And also, bloody." in my head) about living out of my car than I'd expected, though it's only been a week, so we'll see how that goes. I spent last night in a motel room that would make the set designers on SPN weep. Nothing of any interest at all, unless you count the mildew in the shower as decoration. But it was only $40 for the night, and the A/C worked, so I'm not complaining. ( pictures here )

Now it's getting to be check-out time, so I shall get the car packed up again. Catch you later!

♥

I had SUCH an amazing start to my weekend. First I went and did my final teacher eval, then met with my professor for the final time, and she had lovely things to say about me and my contributions to the classes I took with her, and such constructive things (and positive things) to say about my thesis. It was a really bitter-sweet parting, but wonderful, too.

Right from there I went across town to pick up emilytheodd who I have known via flist for a few years now, but whom I'd sadly never met. She is even more sparkly awesome in person :D We drove to Berkeley to meet up with miss_begonia and ericaplease for dinner and some musical theater. Dinner was delicious: salad, pizza and chicken satay, and great fun. We saw Girlfriend at the Berkeley Rep. It was DELIGHTFUL. It's like everything I love about super-well-written, schmoopy with just-the-right-amount-of-angst fanfic, only on stage and featuring music played by a band of REALLY REALLY HOT dykes. YES. PLEASE. We were squealing into our flists, clapping, giggling and laughing (which annoyed a man sitting near us who seemed to be seriously sense-of-humor impaired, but whatever) and there was at least one point that was soooo gorgeously sweet that I literally could not breathe.

We then repaired to miss_begonia's for cake, wine, gifts, and High School Musical. I am no longer a HSM virgin! (I'm still not sure if this is a good thing or not.) We watched a few select songs from 1, and then all the way through 3 (which i kind of dozed during, but I don't think I missed much). We then stayed up until 5:30 in the morning talking about slash, and bandom, and music, and politics, and voting, and law school, and grad school, and writing, and family and other VERY IMPORTANT THINGS. Then we all got up at 9:30. (I mentioned the exhausted, right?) During that time I had a dream that I was working for Zach Efron in Connecticut (on some campaign, I think) and he and I had to travel to VT to fetch Lea Michelle so that she could go to Boston and marry Kristin Chenowith. IDK either!)

This morning I had a lovely chat with Miss B about Adam and AI and writing and all sorts of lovely things, and then came home to collapse. I'm more than 24 hours behind on LJ, and I've tried to catch up, but I can hardly see. Sorry!

I essentially have 4.5 more days to get ready for my road trip. This makes me want to vomit a bit, I have to say. Hopefully I'll get there?

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