...floyd..? 

friday, september 17


















well that kind of sucked. i think i'm going to have to claim this as my first non-birthday. no, it's not that i didn't get any gifts or got birthday wishes. it's just... it got cancelled. not a single 'happy birthday' song sung in real life. total non-birthday.

before i go into anything, i'd just like to say that my deepest sympathies go out to all those who -were- affected by the hurricane. i in no way mean to insult or brush over the harsh reality and damage that -did- occur. i'm just babbling from my perspective. 


wednesday afternoon i was really spooked. schools and buses being cancelled, reports of people emptying out the bread shelves and other really got to me, and i started to feel like the biggest most unprepaired dork alive for not really haven taken any proper precautions.

therefore i got gene to come over and pick me up so i could go storm-shopping. now, consider that apart from the hurricanes since i've come to north carolina, i've never really experienced a disaster, and that people have been feeding me horror stories about the damage hurricane fran did a few years back. hence, i had no clue what i would -really- need, and hence just froppled around taking anybody's advice.


we drove out of chapel hill to try and find some stores that still actually had stuff in them and ended up in hillsborough... we found a foodlion and a cart, and off we went. this is what i ended up buying:


    

  •  3 cans of sliced pineapple (must be sliced; hate any other forms except for fresh, and i don't like any other canned fruit)
    

  •  2 packets of pop-tarts; i had no idea they made s'mores pop tarts! i also got strawberry.
    

  •  a bag of caesar salad (that you put together yourself) - in case electricity went out.
    

  •  4 liters of soda (2 coca cola, 2 mountain dew)
    

  •  1 gallon of non fat milk and some cheese slices
    

  •  10 mini variety pack of cereal.
    


and when i, like everybody else, discovered that the entire bread aisle was empty, i turned to the aisle across - the beer aisle and ended up with:


    

  •  6 bottles of honey bee's beer
    

  •  4 barclay's berry wine coolers
    



yes, i know, horridly wimpy stuff, but considering i dislike both wine and beer, i have a surprising love for these two brands or whatever. gene later told me most ppl at his dorm seemed to have the same mindset as i did - if you can't have bread, have beer, get drunk and ignore the damn storm.

we drove back home through horrid rain and wind, and there i was dropped off while gene went back to his dorm. fast forward a few hours. i've filled three containers with water and have just told my roommate to fill the bathtub "just in case". he stares at me like i'm crazy. i'm also wildly munching on what is supposed to be my "emergency food". those s'more pop tarts are so yummie!

i end up alone on the living room couch with far too many wine coolers and beer swirling about while howling along to alanis and whatnot songs for what seems like hours while watching hurricane tv (hard to avoid as it's on every other channel.) and eating pop tarts and cereal and doritos (ranch) and waiting for the sky (or tree outside our window) to fall.


and that was basically my birthday. hip hip.











 


















thursday morning i woke  up around 6 a.m., peeked out at the rain and winds and went back to sleep.

when i got up around 11 a.m. i fully expected to see a complete disaster area out of our windows. instead i was treated to sun shine and a few water puddles blinking at me here and there. and that was that. not even a twig out of place. 

it's not that i'm not grateful we 'got away' - don't get me wrong. but considering how hyped and panicking we all wore, filled with lines from weather people telling us this would be the worst storm ever, we all ended up feeling a bit.. cheated. you know?

unfortunately a lot of people towards the coast -were- severely affected. my sympathies go out to them all. :/


sometime in the afternoon gene came by and we fell over laughing at how beautiful and sunshiny it was outside. we then spent an hour and a half driving around and trying to find a place to eat. we ended up at the cracker barrel in durham, and oooo. for those of you who don't know, it's a 'rustic' restaurant with old fashioned farm people kind of food. 

it took me a while to find something that didn't contain meat/gravy. i ended up with scrambled eggs, hashbrown casserole and 3 delicious pan cakes with peaches and sauce and cream... i almost got some grits too, but gene groaned so i didn't. hehe.


later that evening he treated me to the movie trick as part of my birthday gift, and i was amazed at how cute and funny it was. go see it! if nothing just to see tori spelling -actually- be kind of good, and the dragqueen dressed up as tori spelling later on... great movie.

as gene was driving me home we ended up listening to delilah, a radio show where troubled hearts call in and have sappy stuff played for them with some of delilah's thoughts tacked onto it, and ended up sitting in the car by my building listening to it.

we decided it was just the right time for some night driving and pulled out of the parkinglot again. we spent an hour and a half driving around chapel hill/durham/raleigh listening to the radio, and we kept finding wonderful songs. we found indigo girls several times, and the new melissa etheridge song thrice. and it kind of stuck. so there you go. i'm off to sleep now.











 



















song of the moment:





angels would fall - melissa etheridge

The rope that's wrapped around me 

                        is cutting my skin 

                        And the doubts that have surrounded me 

                        Are finding their way in 

                        I keep it close to me 

                        Like a holy man prays 

                        In my desperate hour 

                        It's better that way 


                        So I'll come by and see you again 

                        I'll be such a very good friend 

                        Have mercy on my soul 

                        I will never let you know 

                        Where my mind has been 

                        Angels never came down 

                        There's no one here they want 

                        to hang around 

                        But if they knew 

                        If they knew you at all 

                        Then one by one the angels 

                        Angels would fall 


                        I've crept into your temple 

                        I have slept upon your pew 

                        I've dreamed of the divinity 

                        Inside and out of you 

                        I want it more than truth 

                        I can taste it on my breath 

                        I would give my life just for a little death 


                        So I'll come by and see you again
 
                        I'll be just a very good friend 

                        I will not look upon your face 

                        I will not touch upon your grace 

                        Your ecclesiastic skin 


                        I'll come by and see you again 

                        I'll have to be a very good friend 

                        If I whisper they will know 

                        I'll just turn around and go 

                        You will never know my sin






* the lines that looks like this are my favourite.









 









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