When It’s Pretty I Remember Why

So yesterday was a little weird—for a slew of reasons starting with being hung over, carrying through an earthquake and leading to plans forgotten and plans badly done. I felt somewhat off the whole of the evening but then it worked itself out to something good.

The day started slow as I did the things I have to do—wake up, shower, get places, get on-line. I moved slowly and was quite reflective about a lot of things as of late; whether I’m moving forward with plan gay, thinking about work, contacting the people I felt I’d been neglecting. I was catching up on correspondence when I felt the earthquake come barreling through.

It was a weird moment—only because a beat before it happened I had a very strange sensation, like someone was creeping up and suddenly stopped; an eerie stillness. I watched as things began to rattle on my desk and in my semi-hung over state, it took me a beat to realize I wasn’t the one doing it. I just stood up and watched as the room jumped, jived and wailed for about 30 seconds and went back to work as if nothing happened. I was very unflappable.

I wish that this ability applied as well to other areas of my life—between overbooking myself socially and just feeling off—but the quake gave me a reason to claim nerves as opposed to just being a little jumpy. I eventually remembered that I was supposed to have coffee with Kirby and called her after my post-working shower.

We went to coffee and chatted to catch up on the various things we have been up to between prom and her trip back East. It was nice if a little off because of our recent tension. I know that we’ll be fine but we’re just pushing through it. I don’t think it helped that I suddenly remembered my drinks date with Kelly and the prom committee which caused me to have to end things earlier.

Drinks were at Yosimiro with Joy, Lizzie, Valeska and Kelly. We had fun and it was very ‘Sex in the City’ with a posse of pretty girls in a pretty location. Even with all the drama as of late I realized that things were better than I thought as I stared over the beautiful skyline from the hilltop bar. Earthquakes and tension and even drama just go away when you can see the bigger picture.