it cost me $580 to get here. its been just about two years since i had seen paraic. we are still friends. we are still friends and its exactly the same and finding that out while walking through tier garten last night, made me realize i had already gotten more than my money's worth out of this trip. i love him and i was so worried about how our relationship would be and i couldn't have asked for a better experience upon getting here. people had told me he was 'so different, not the same paraic' but to me he seems just, wonderfully famliar. I CANNOT WAIT UNTIL JOE AND SEAN AND KEVIN AND GARRETT AND JULIET ARE HERE. i cannot wait to go to rome with juliet and i cannot wait for the camping and the hitching and the everything.

i went to lunch today with fernelly and amy to this really good vietnamese restaurant that they call 'temptation' because its so good, too hard to resist. i'm going to go there. a lot. after amy and i got coffee and went to a second hand store where i got a comfortable sweater, something i had totally forgotten to bring with me, and some dope high waisted but baggy trousers, which i had been trying to find at home for some time. it was really windy and there was bits of white fuzz or pollen or something floating around in the air from the trees. its crowded but not too bad because its gray outside. its cold but managable with a scarf and jacket on. i feel really good. i'm happy i did this.