Dear Simone,
So here's the deal. No roofing lately. No art projects lately. No wandering late at night lately.
Pretty boring, right? But there's more to life than the void left by those things:
Writing poetry over chocolate milk and ginger cookies at the local co-op. Reading about so many things online, from street artists to Martiniquaise intellectuals to apple cider processes to spooky original fairy tales. Finding time to read for fun: I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett, Flight, Vols. 2 & 7, Cahier d'un retour au pays natal by Aimé Césaire, Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (my current read). Taking time to stop and sketch from real life, with messy attempts at learning to shade well. Stretching and dancing and getting enough sleep. Slowly mastering a new character in Smash Bros. and drinking fancy teas on a regular basis. Things have been peaceful.
I've basically been living in Duncan's room for the past month. I don't always sleep here now, as I did during October and the better part of September, but I spend most of my free daylight hours in and out of his room. Things have been so different, and not at all in a bad way.
Adventures: Cherry Pie with friends and a lot of naïveté on my part (it's an adult store and I missed all the sex ed. classes that I could have taken in previous years, so my friend have been crash coursing me for over a month now). Seeking out film for the 1970s Olympus from my mom's college years studying art (fitted with loads of accessories! so pumped). Slowly collecting musical instruments in Duncan's room (his old trumpet, his grandfather's guitar, several harmonicas, my old lap harp, a slim black recorder). Spending three days in the mountains with friends for fall break (hot spiced cider, watching a gorgeous meteor shower from the roof of the isolated mountain-top house, tag and climbing on the jungle gym in town, music and massages by firelight, walking in the pitch of night, candlelit baths, oven s'mores and so much delicious cooking). Experiencing the State Fair for the first time. Going in full garb to the Renaissance Festival (I had a totally awesome green and black costume, topped off with some borrowed elf ears). Surviving until day two in campus wide Humans versus Zombies. Being the Original Zombie (OZ) in the version played on Duncan's hall (I got to play because I'm always around). Running through flood conditions because WET. Seeing Stars in concert for the second time ever and getting mind-blowingly yummy street food afterwards. :D
And, because it was awesome and deserves its own paragraph: MOOG Fest and the Saturday that followed in lovely lovely Asheville. Austra, Holy Fuck, Tangerine Dream, The Antlers, Moby, and TV on the Radio. Malaprop's (twice!), the crêpe place, Laughing Seed and just the town itself. Julia's eclectic and wonderful apartment. Halloween sprinkle pancakes with rainbow marshmallow hot chocolate for breakfast while watching Buffy and wondering if Mowgli the cat would ever stop sulking under the bed and come say hi.
So life has been more attention to music and pushing harder at the arts in exchange for all the fast-paced physical-experiential drive of last semester. This semester has been very sensual in its own way though. And it is definitely nice to relax a bit.
I will be taking up my bike project again, now that I have black tape. I think I told you about that, right? I am building a cardboard bike, in case I didn't. With working pedals and everything. I just have to attach wheels, but I'm a lazy butt and wheels are going to be several hours of work. I ran out of tape. My mom gifted me new tape. So life will go on in that field. Maybe this weekend? I'm excited.
Anyway. I will probably try to write to this blog more often, but in shorter punches. Sorry for the long bout of silence. Eat some madeleines: cookies make everything better, right? Totally.
Miss you babe.
Love and all that jazz,
Blue
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