mainsqueeze's Diaryland Diary

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Peachtree Industrial

Day One: Arrive in Charlotte noon-ish, already freezing from the second leg of my trip during which ice and water dripped on me incessantly from the overhead compartment ("Condensation," the stewardess explained over her shoulder as she walked away from my blue and frosty form) bitter, cold, and tired nearly to the point of hallucination. Three hours to Cherokee, throw my shit on the floor of the bedroom and take a five hour nap. Wake up and watch horror movies with Zero while Ed sleeps.
Day Two: Wake up too early for the drive to Athens, which I tried to explain to Ed is like a Catholic visiting Vatican City but he still didn't get it. Became terrified that I was going to be disappointed once I saw that Athens seemed to be primarily garages and churches but breathed a sigh of relief once we turned onto Broad and I saw Jittery Joe's. Tell Ed we are saving that for last and begin walking the street that UGA is on. Take a thousand pictures next to the bulldogs that are on every street corner. Bought The Damned and Dag Nasty at a used record store, bought An Erotic History at the comic shop where the owner told me about his trip to Vegas for a heavy metal convention at the Gold Coast in 96. Bought a chai, a coffee cup shaped like a cupcake. Began to rain so we head back toward JJ's where I bought a coffee that had a fly in it (which I scoop out and drink anyway) and sat in stunned silence thinking about the things the wooden walls had absorbed. The cashier looks like Judd Nelson. The ride to Atlanta I can't stop smiling, everything feels just PERFECT. Arrive in Atlanta and eat lunch, hang out with the dog Darla while Ed and his girlfriend Eve presumably have sex in the bedroom. Leave for a place called Wild Bill's a few hours later to watch the MMA fights, drink four Yuenglings and fall in love with a fighter named Brittany Watson and decide that if I see her afterward I will buy her a beer. We head home with me drunk, eat at Waffle House. Ed and Eve are locked in the bedroom and I can't find another bathroom so I pee in the stairwell and fall asleep on the sofa to Mangum.
Day Three: Breakfast at Waffle House, where Eve works. Saw a movie called Paranormal Acrivity which didn't scare me even a little which surprises me since I am afraid of everything. Ed and Eve tell me that I am not afraid because I have never witnessed the paranormal. I suppose that in some ways they are right. Return to the apartment and hold Darla on my lap while Ed and Eve take a nap in the bedroom. After a few hours I feel lonely and storm the bedroom demanding stimulation. They take me to a strip mall where I drink a latte and and buy a headband with ears on it. We leave a few hours later and head to downtown Atlanta, which Ed and Eve tell me is far too scary for me to travel on foot. We pick up tiny, gay Peruvian Daniel whom I think I accidentally offend later in the night when I drunkenly call him una chismosa. The party we are going to is in a warehouse and is filled with people that may or may not be in costume. I meet a guy named Chris (I think) who is in a fishnet shirt and see more latex than I have in one place in my life. I drink a vodka double straight and head outside to smoke. I peer over the rail of the balcony and am told by a boy in a straw cowboy hat and a shirt that says "Boo" under a cartoon Dracula that he got rid of the bodies, vomit, and semen before I got there. We start to talk about how this is my first time down south and segue into music, he is a musician and a dj and just finished his set before he came outside. I tell him I wish I had paid attention. A man dressed as Jack Skellington comes up and shakes my hand and tells me they just moved in together but he says it in a way that confuses me since Maui had mentioned ex girlfriends. But this is Atlanta and everybody seems to be some shade of gay and Maui was standing awfully close and our hands were brushing so I didn't care. His teeth are small and perfect and his smile is amazing and I want to kiss him before the night is over. We start talking music and he loves that I went to Athens because of Mangum and I suddenly want to become intimately familiar with the way his skin tastes. He vanishes to dance to Prodigy and I have four more shots. Daniel tries to teach me how to dance and I tell him I am doomed to dance with my ass and he says that that kind of dancing has its merits. I meet an Amazon named LP and hug her because she has a beautiful face and looks like Lois Lane. I hit on a girl dressed like a zombie in the ladies' room and take pictures of the costumed girls in line. I touch a Vulcan girl's ears and we discuss how hot Spock is and then laugh because we feel collosally nerdy at that moment. I return to the dance floor and Maui finds me and we go outside and stand in a circle talking with a boy who looks like Jakob Dyland named Twitch and a cowgirl named Cynthia who I keep calling Christine. Ed finds me it is time to go so I kiss Maui on both cheeks a thousand times and take three pictures with him, none of which turn out well. In the car I text him my phone number and tell the story of how we played music trivia and I said, "This boy is destined to be my best friend," and Daniel says, well, if he puts up with that psycho shit, maybe. I tell them Georgia people are nicer and I hugged a hundred strangers and I tell Daniel he is beautiful and I don't remember the rest of the car ride. Walked Darla when we got home, had my IPod on and got so into the music that I looked up and was completely lost and had broken my glasses irreparably. Called Ed and he found me wandering the streets. Fell asleep to Mangum with my panda ears still on on a couch with my feet in the face of an equally drunk boy named Ryan.
Day Four: Wake up shaky but no headache, leave for Cherokee at 11am with my broken glasses crooked on my face. Ed says to be sure I don't forget anything because he doesn't want to turn around and fifteen minutes in Eve calls and says I left my sweater. Maui texts me back and I call Conrad to tell her we are moving to Atlanta because the boys are better here. When we get back to Cherokee I take a 20 minute nap and then we eat dinner with Ed's family at a quintessentially southern place called Granny's Kitchen that has the best pie ever and I don't even LIKE pie. Returned to Ed's parents' house and he gives me a tour and there are pictures of Jamie I have never seen before and I really wish I could have met him and kissed his cheeks like I kiss Ed's cheeks but from what Ed tells me he probably wouldn't have liked that. I stay with Ed's Mom talking after he leaves and she tells me how she worries about him and asks can I please please please get him to put his new tags on his car? Peggy and Leon, Ed's Mom and Dad, try to help me fix my glasses but after an hour of fruitless effort we resort to duct tape and I don't give a shit that much, anyway. Text Maui a bunch and wish hard that I had gone to dance with him for that song like he wanted me to.
Day Five: Ed works early so I stay in bed with Zero until noon, shower and walk to Peggy's, talk for a few minutes and head out to explore Cherokee. Ed said I shouldn't walk to downtown, it was too far, but I got there on foot in 20 minutes and spent 3 hours drinking coffee and taking pictures of what I call a river but Ed says is a creek. I bond with a shopkeeper over our mutual distaste for the scorpion paperweights her boss has ordered and she tells me how she was in Pennsylvania for a couple years but moved back because she just couldn't live in the north. She is getting laid off next week but is okay with that because then she will have the holidays off. I leave after talking with her for about an hour and take care to avoid the path where I stepped into knee-deep mud on the way down. I gamble $40 in 10 minutes at the casino, and stumble into the house freezing because the sun disappeared while I was gone.

I know this changes tense a lot, just wanted to get it all down.

8:08 p.m. - 2009-11-02

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