high desert
Apr. 16th, 2004 11:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
intjonathanSo we crashed at the frat house, and that was that. We slept surprisingly well, considering. I had it luxurious: I got a pillow and blanket on my couch. I even slept through the bong-smoking not 10 feet away. Maybe it just helped me relax. Though truth be told I've had closer contact highs from concerts. Josh and Graham slept on other, smaller couches (they had a lot of couches at the frat house), Cliff managed to sleep on the couch in the garage, and Taylor slept in the dorms at the college, something none of us knew in the morning which made for some very lost looking about for our groom-to-be. Eventually he walked in the door, ready to go and looking surprisingly alive for someone who'd had as much to drink as he did. We up and left, still smelly and quite tired, but most urgently hungry, and went to one of Taylor's choice restaurants for breakfast burritos. Our hunger sated, we went to Perris to find a hotel and ended up at a Days Inn, which is working out well.
Taylor had a much busier day than us, as tomorrow is everything. Josh dropped him off at Cassie's while the rest of us got cleaned up (individually, you pervert). The rehearsal was happening this evening at 4:00, 4:30 or 5:30, depending on who you talked to (us, Cassie's parents, or reality, respectively). So there was definitely some waiting around going on. Josh and I aren't in the ceremony so there was little for us to rehearse except dance moves for the reception, so we skipped off to Wally World to run errands for Josie.
And overall it sounds like a pretty uneventful day, no big parties or trips or anything, but we did have a very elegant and surprisingly large rehearsal dinner at a classy mexican restaurant just outside of Homeland. (That's Homeland, CA, just up the street from Romoland. No comment.) The guys keep talking about how they've been gone since monday but it really only feels like 2 days have passed, I guess driving 24 hours will do that to you. Tomorrow's the big day and to me it felt like it came on awfully quick. Time flies when you're unconscious I guess. But I'm looking forward to the first slug wedding, they seem very happy together and even though the next few years don't look like wine and roses for them, it seems to me like Taylor's too smart not to have a bright future somewhere down the road for him.
I have been feeling mostly unthoughtful, sarcastic, tactless and tired today. Seems like I'm forgetting a piece of myself. Maybe a good night's sleep will make me remember where I am. Though today I did get a much better sense of being happy I came. There are times I can sit back and go, "this is right. This is my life in equilibrium." It's quite peaceful, really.
Taylor had a much busier day than us, as tomorrow is everything. Josh dropped him off at Cassie's while the rest of us got cleaned up (individually, you pervert). The rehearsal was happening this evening at 4:00, 4:30 or 5:30, depending on who you talked to (us, Cassie's parents, or reality, respectively). So there was definitely some waiting around going on. Josh and I aren't in the ceremony so there was little for us to rehearse except dance moves for the reception, so we skipped off to Wally World to run errands for Josie.
And overall it sounds like a pretty uneventful day, no big parties or trips or anything, but we did have a very elegant and surprisingly large rehearsal dinner at a classy mexican restaurant just outside of Homeland. (That's Homeland, CA, just up the street from Romoland. No comment.) The guys keep talking about how they've been gone since monday but it really only feels like 2 days have passed, I guess driving 24 hours will do that to you. Tomorrow's the big day and to me it felt like it came on awfully quick. Time flies when you're unconscious I guess. But I'm looking forward to the first slug wedding, they seem very happy together and even though the next few years don't look like wine and roses for them, it seems to me like Taylor's too smart not to have a bright future somewhere down the road for him.
I have been feeling mostly unthoughtful, sarcastic, tactless and tired today. Seems like I'm forgetting a piece of myself. Maybe a good night's sleep will make me remember where I am. Though today I did get a much better sense of being happy I came. There are times I can sit back and go, "this is right. This is my life in equilibrium." It's quite peaceful, really.
