Los Angeles: where the streets yesterday, after dropping my sweet angel of a road-trippin' partnah kirsten off at the airport and realizing that now my new life is Actually, Really, Truly beginning, i had a mini-freek-owt. But, by the time the 5 North came around and I coasted off at the exit for Target, the tears were wiped away and I calmed myself in the sterile anonymity of their halogen-lit aisles. I cut myself on a bookcase box and the checkout lady awwed over my "boo-boo" and put a band-aid on my finger. Target Mommy.
My apartment is sunny beautiful, Los Angeles is summer-warm, I'm reunited with juliet (& delightful rhan!), and my roommate is just as lovely as when we shared a stage 7 years ago, or when we shared bed 4 years ago in Rome (gone are her night terrors, thankfully -- those dark late hours when she would fitfully smack me mid-sleep, or would "sleep-run" up and down our hallway freaking out that someone stole her purse...ah. separate rooms, now! no matter!). A full week lies ahead of job-searching, contact-making, headshot-sending, Patti Smith movie-viewing, museum-going, Bird & the Bee concert-attending, LA-ing, LA-ing, LA-ing...ah.
And just before I can freak out again or get too lonely, my longest-ago friend (we go all the way back to preschool, hayyyyy) is coming out from New York next week to help me get adjusted here. And also to bring me cupcakes from Magnolia Bakery. (!!!!) (whee.)
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omg hi. you made it. i miss you. etc.
write to me properly when you're settled. good luck with eeeeverything.
xoxoxoxoox
urg, i miss you! i'm glad glad glad that you're starting to set down roots. but i'm sad, too. i wish you were still in chicago. i hope you're loving la-ing. warm it up for me, please.
No need to feel scared. You will be fine. Great even. You are loved. You are lovely. You are bright and a bright spot in anyone's day. Be brave young woman. Good things await you.
It all sounds so exciting! I admire your ability to move away from Chicago and do what you wanna do. I can't imagine moving, even if I got to do what I wanted to do or even if I could bring what/who I wanted with me. Big respekkkkkkks for my tapioneighborsister!!!
yay, i assume anna m. is making the trip?
glad you are getting settled--miss you and wish we could have gotten together before you moved as far away as you could get from me in the lower 48.
xxx!
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