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Tuesday, December 31, 2002

 
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so another update about the last three days. i've decided i rather enjoy the 3-day drive, as it forces me to decompress and doesn't ever allow me to do work and rarely even think about work. except for the person waiting at the end of that day's drive, there's nothing tieing me to anything except the road and my music and the book on tape i am listening to (fwiw, i probably could have gone with wuthering heights instead of jane eyre, as i am still not finished with it, though i did find a quote i want to record). and i see the most beautiful landscapes.

12.28.02
rob & i stopped somewhere between raton & santa fe to look at the stars, which were thicker and better than either of us had expected. new mexico really benefits from a lack of light at night; you could clearly distinguish the milky way in the sharp air, and we listened to radiohead's "pyramid song" while we drank it in. i even saw a star fall, and while i didn't know what to wish for then, i do now.

12.29.02
after appeasing the onset of hypoglycemia by eating at the owl cafe (new mexico ruben: yum!) on my way to arizona i stopped to see the peak of a gorgeous sunset. the whole sky was on fire.

12.30.02
highway 78 between blythe & julian is my second-favorite drive of all time. it's full of dips and hills, your car rising and falling as if it's breathing. the air smells like hay and farms. and i adore driving through glamis, which is like a settlement in a post-apocalyptic mad-max movie: fires and tattered tents and trailers and atvs and vendors and smoke and dust. sometimes fireworks explode over the dunes. behind me, east, the blue rose from the mountains to swallow the reddenning sky. i feel i can drive west forever. before me, the clouds glowed bright pink, faded to blush, brick, smoke, dark grey, luminous blue, and finally collapsed the whole sky to glittering black. i stopped in the anza desert, where i was so far from anything the silence rang in my ears, and knelt in the cold sand, surrounded by stars.

i got a little carsick after julian, though. it turns out penguins (or any mints, i suspect) are a fairly effective antidote. upon returning home, i discover amelia has not been a cup of tea for poor jennifer.

this trip has been brought to you by the following soundtrack: jane eyre; throwing muses: university; kevin trudeau: tapes 5 & 6 of mega memory; rem: out of time; the amelie soundtrack; 10,000 maniacs: love among the ruins; paul simon: the rhythm of the saints; a mix tape rob made for ilena; veda hille: spine; christmas eve, a mix playlist; lisa loeb: firecracker; hot club of cowtown: dev'lish mary; enya: the celts; tori amos: the choirgirl hotel; pj harvey: is this desire?. surprisingly, i brought an entire bag of music i didn't listen to.

happy new year's eve! tonight, a new year's eve party. today, a list of resolutions & accomplishments.