Sitting on the back porch with a breeze off the highway, we drank wine out of mason jars and talked into the early hours of the morning, when the birds started singing.

Most of these songs are by Modest Mouse. ::Smacks forehead.:: Which is probably why the lyrics go so well together! Modest Mouse likes to sing about cars. A couple other artists managed to sneak in there, though, I swear!

Meme taken from euclase. <3 Licia.

Put your MP3 player on shuffle, and write down the first line of the first twenty songs. Post the poem that results. The first line of the twenty-first is the title.

“Taken to the Floor”

A low riding junkie girl,
I was in heaven,
I’m down on the water.
Well all’s not well.

Hello city limits,
You and me, whenever we go wrong.
I just can’t seem to escape the thought of you.
Take a drive in the wrong hand lane.
We’re going down the road towards tiny cities made of ashes.
Smells like autumn, smells like leaves.
Smoke was pulled like ribbons from the window of the car.

I’m the same as I was when I was six years old.
Raise your glass,
‘Cause this phase is finally over.
I am not who I want to be.

Slither to sea, speakin’ in tongues.
Every time they turn the lights down,
Everything is exactly right.
Sometimes when this place gets kind of empty,
I’m on the corner waiting for a light to come on.

I am in Boston until Wednesday! I don't really feel grounded in any sort of reality, maybe because I haven't been in one place for very long. I was in Philly, in DC, spent a week on my granny's pull-out bed, and am now in Boston. Nathan and I looked at a couple of apartments today, and we really liked the first one. It's tiny and on the top floor and old and, actually, really wonderful. Will talk more later.

Horray! It isn't mono after all, only a rare form of strep. I'm special.

So I've been horribly sick all week. Not sniff-ly or sneezy at all, but really weak and exhausted, and I've alternated between having a fever and getting ridiculous chills. My throat has been really sore and swollen, and my granny thought I might have strep throat, so she made me go to the doctor.

The test for strep came back negative, and the doctor seems to think that I might have mono. Gee, that would suck, considering Nathan and I were gonna go up on Sunday to scout out some apartments and get some things settled.

What sucked even more is that the doctor gave me these antibiotics "just in case" it was strep, since he can't actually test me for mono until five days (at least) have passed, which means if I'm not feeling better by next Monday, I have to go back for some blood tests.

And I seem to have the worst luck with medication, and I had one of the more terrifying moments of my life in reaction to the antibiotics. I got this horrible pain in my stomach, but nothing like I was going to throw up or anything .. it was this pain I can't really describe, and then my head got really clouded, and my ears started buzzing, and by this time I was starting to feel a little panicked, and then my arms started tingling, and they went completely numb. And in my panicked mind, I was like, holy fuck, I'm going to die.

Of course, here I am. I raced to my trusty laptop and googled symptoms for that particular antibiotic--thank you, internet--while my granny called my doctor, and I laid in bed hyperventilating for a little, but the symptoms eventually faded and I was fine. But holy fuck, was it scary.

And this is why I refuse to take medicine. But hooray the possibility of mono? /sigh.